The establishment and spread of electric mobility is bringing changes that have a massive impact on the value chain. While these changes open up many business opportunities, they also bear some degree of risk to established business. This is especially true for suppliers and potential new players in the game, who should all prepare well in advance for these anticipated changes.
As a future-oriented corporate management company with an eye for what’s up ahead and years of extensive expertise in the automotive supply industry, we are your ideal partner when it comes to companies who desire nothing less than success in the electric mobility market.
Our survey Elektromobilität - Perspektiven und Chancen für Unternehmen (Electric Mobility – Perspectives and Opportunities for Companies) outlines how companies can identify and prepare for the challenges that lay ahead.

Our approach to electric mobility is solution oriented and includes the following topics:

• Foresight
  

  In order to ensure long-term success in the electric mobility market, it is vital to adopt an anticipatory approach. Complexities can be reduced and the future can be secured by implementing scenario planning. Those with a future-oriented approach are sensitive to even the slightest hint of a potential success in the near future and they are already in the process of securing competitive advantages for themselves.
  
  UNITY Project Example: The Future of the Drive Train
  UNITY developed mobility and drive scenarios in order to prepare an adhesives producer and automotive industry supplier for changes in the long run.

• Strategy Development

  Business, product and technology strategies were developed in order to implement new business opportunities and avoid any risk. Strategy forms the foundation for the concentrated and bundled strength and power that a company has at its disposal. Our strategy will avoid any ill-considered cost intensive course changes.
  
  UNITY Project Example: Technology and Automobile Interior Strategy
  UNITY worked with an automobile manufacturer to develop a strategy for air conditioning. The requirement was to offer optimal comfort with the lowest possible energy consumption.

• Business Model Development

  It is not enough to be able to recognize the potential for success when it comes to electric mobility within your own company. The opportunities that are available need to be taken by the horns. It is essential to develop alternative business models and to take a look at and evaluate these objectively and critically. In the field of electric mobility, the long-term success of a business will largely depend on having a coherent business model and a promising business plan. 
  
  UNITY Project Example: E-Road
  UNITY cooperated on a pilot study to test the feasibility of the E-Road mobility concept. The E-Road is an electrified road that allows contactless electrical transmission for moving vehicles.

• Process Management
  
  Developing innovative business models and ideas is one thing. Implementing them effectively and sustainably is a completely different challenge. It remains however, that existing business processes need to be questioned critically and adjusted to new situations and potential.
  
  UNITY Project Example: Start-up Processes Hybrid Series
  With the new start-up of a hybrid series, UNITY has, as ramp-up manager, created the appropriate requirements and conditions necessary to be able to initiate and apply technical changes on short notice. 

• Project Management

  Projects are particularly successful when organizations define and set down clear areas of responsibility, rules, and properly allocate resources, implement and apply professional project management principles, and cultivate the idea of open communication between all of the parties involved in a project – including being concrete and frank with stakeholders. Sophisticated projects require efficient results-oriented programs and project management plans. Without these, failure is inevitable. 

  UNITY Project Example: Weight Management of a Hybrid Model
  Unity worked on a customer project and ensured that changes in the weight of the individual hybrid models could be kept exactly within the previously defined margin during the development phase.