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Bernhard Mühlreiter

PartnerVienna

Helps companies in the mobility and industrial space to navigate disruptions, shape tech-enabled performance programs, and reinvent operating models for the next normal

Bernhard serves leading global institutions on tech-enabled performance transformations across the world’s main geographies, with a focus on bottom-line improvements and organizational change in the automotive and industrial sector.

Bernhard also co-leads our digital and analytics work for automotive and industrial clients across Europe.

Bernhard helps companies that face threats from changing market environments and industry disruptions apply new operating models and cutting edge technology for lasting performance improvements.

Examples of Bernhard’s recent work include the following:

  • shaping and implementing a tech-enabled performance transformation for an international automotive supplier, also taking over an interim executive role as Chief Transformation Officer
  • supporting the CEO and board of a large global automotive OEM to develop breakthrough ideas in order to innovate the business model to prepare for the “next normal” in a post COVID-19 environment
  • developing a future operating model for a mid-sized industrial client in response to disruptive forces in the industry
  • implementing an EBIT improvement program for a large industrial tier-one company focusing on material cost reduction, global footprint, and pricing optimization
  • creating and implementing the “digital twin” concept at a premium automotive OEM, building a virtual replica of the physical product across the entire product lifecycle
  • designing an analytics-based pricing optimization for an industrial client, leveraging advanced analytics algorithms to improve margin
  • designing and delivering an end-to-end digital transformation for a leading automotive tier-one supplier, including definition of strategy, development of digital capabilities ("digital factory"), and launch of agile pilots
  • ramping up a new digital service business unit for an automotive OEM, shifting from a product orientation to targeted offers based on industry verticals

Bernhard has deep experience and know-how on industry-shaping technologies such as digital twin, IoT, cloud, AI, and automation from working with OEMs, suppliers, machinery companies, and technology companies.

VIDEO

Capturing value at scale from Industry 4.0—Moving beyond pilot purgatory,” TactonDay 18, Youtube, June 2020

PUBLISHED WORK

The state of cloud computing in Europe: Increasing adoption, low returns, huge potential,” McKinsey & Company, April 2024

Digital twins: The art of the possible in product development and beyond,” McKinsey & Company, April 2022

Cracking the complexity code in embedded systems development,” McKinsey & Company, March 2022

Win the next normal with technology in automotive and industrial manufacturing,” McKinsey & Company, October 2020

Reimagining the auto industry’s future: It’s now or never,” McKinsey & Company, October 2020

Accelerating product development: The tools you need now,” McKinsey & Company, June 2018 (McKinsey Quarterly, 2018)

Past Experience

Accenture
Strategy consultant

Education

University of Vienna
PhD, political sciences

University of Applied Sciences Wiener Neustadt
MSc, business and management