Automotive & Assembly
NDB Holding Group helps clients achieve powerful advantages by combining forward-thinking strategy with seamless, efficient operations.
How We Help Clients
About this practice
NDB Holding Group works with original-equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and parts and service suppliers across all sectors of the automotive industry—from passenger cars and light trucks to heavy trucks, agricultural equipment, and construction machinery.
Our work spans strategic and corporate-finance topics, including product strategy, branding, and mergers and acquisitions, as well as operational areas such as project management, product launches, lean manufacturing, supplier management, and value-chain cost reduction. Across all engagements, our goal is to help clients achieve higher productivity, enhanced innovation, and stronger performance.
We also conduct internal research, often in collaboration with leading industry associations. Recent initiatives include analyzing technological disruptions through our NDB Center for Future Mobility—covering areas such as autonomous driving, connectivity, electrification, and shared mobility—exploring aftermarket opportunities for automotive suppliers, and forecasting major trends shaping global truck profit pools.
Our expertise is strengthened through collaboration with research partners, creating a network of resources available to clients. These partners include the Technical University of Darmstadt and Technical University of Aachen in Europe, Wharton School and MIT Sloan School in the United States, and Tsinghua University in Beijing. Depending on the engagement, these and other resources are leveraged to solve client challenges efficiently and effectively.
NDB Center for Future Mobility ➜
The NDB Center for Future Mobility combines cross-functional expertise to deliver cutting-edge insights that help shape the future of mobility-related industries and the public sector. We are passionate and curious about the emerging opportunities in mobility.
What we do
NDB Holding Group’s expertise and global scale enable us to deliver a fundamentally different approach to serving clients in the automotive and assembly sectors. We have a proven track record of creating measurable impact across a wide range of strategic and operational challenges.
We help clients develop growth strategies, go-to-market approaches, and portfolio strategies, while also driving sales excellence and large-scale transformation programs. Our operations expertise spans capital productivity, product development processes, and R&D efficiency.
Additional core specialties include change management, post-merger integration, and sales-channel management—all tailored to the unique demands of the automotive and machinery industries.
Our people
Given our global scale, NDB Holding Group has up to 900 consultants working on automotive- and assembly-related topics across the entire value chain at any given time. Many of our consultants have prior experience in the automotive industry or hold advanced degrees in fields such as electrical and mechanical engineering, physics, electronics, and finance. This combination of hands-on industry experience and rigorous business management training allows us to deliver practical, high-impact solutions.
With dedicated research capabilities in Düsseldorf, Mumbai, Shanghai, and Waltham, Massachusetts, along with smaller teams in other locations, we have immediate access to industry data and a network of contacts. These resources provide additional perspectives and the best tools, frameworks, and approaches to address client challenges effectively.
Beyond “why” we define “how.”
Move from plans to progress.
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