The question: how does Audi respond to the challenges presented by digitization?

As we enter the digital world, products and business models are going to change dramatically. This will have significant consequences for processes and IT solutions as well. Essential Audi core processes need to be redefined and digitized.

How exactly does that work? Together with a team of experts from all Audi divisions, Audi Consulting analyzed this particular question and identified business processes with particularly high potential for optimization and digitalization.

Our solution: the Agile Process Workspace

The “Agile Process Workspace” established by Audi Consulting in Gaimersheim, near Ingolstadt in Germany, provides the ideal setting to deal with the complex challenge of optimizing processes while simultaneously developing necessary IT systems. Cross-divisional expert teams collaborate in the Agile Process Workspace also using agile working methods.

The first Agile Process Workspace was initiated in 2017 for a pilot project in the context of product data management in the vehicle development process. To scale the project, Audi Consulting set up the “Agile Project House” also in the proximity of the Audi headquarter in early 2018. Here expert teams optimize other future critical processes for Audi like software development for autonomous driving.

“The collaborative format of the Agile Process Workspace demonstrates how expert teams from various divisions can work together effectively on highly complex challenges,” says Arno Lang, head of Strategy Consulting at Audi Consulting. “The Agile Process Workspace provides an important impulse for the continuous evolution of working and collaboration formats at Audi.”

The question: what are the resources and skills needed for the future of mobility?

Connected cars, piloted driving, electric drive systems, digital services. Mobility will look very different in the future from how it does today. Urbanization, sustainability, and digitalization are the key concepts of change. Expert knowledge plays a key role in the development of the future of mobility. After all, behind each technology are people and their skills. Yet how does Audi lead and prepare its workforce towards changes in the industry?

Our solution: Strategic Workforce Management  

For this purpose, Audi uses the Strategic Workforce Management project, which Audi Consulting initiated in collaboration with the Powertrain Development department.

How many fuel cell development engineers will Audi need in 2020? And five years after that? How many engineers for the development of a new electric motor? Systematic analysis of current and future needs helps the company determine which employees are necessary and when, what action can be taken to prevent shortages, and what qualifications will be required.

“Skilled for the future”: find out how Audi is preparing to meet tomorrow’s needs.