Boost your competitive advantage, generate new insights, and identify efficiencies with R&D project benchmarking
Why use R&D Advanced Hardware Benchmarking

With business leaders investing up to 19 percent of their revenue in research and development, and an intensifying trend toward innovation, organizations need to have a clear and thoughtful benchmarking capability for fact-based decision-making in R&D. Our benchmark tool provides four benefits to deliver savings and create lasting impact:
1. Handle complexity
Identify the cost drivers of your research and Development projects and achieve holistic transparency
2. Set financial targets
Quantify how much the development effort should rely on your R&D activities and plan your savings initiatives
3. Be competitive
Compare your development efforts against industry benchmarks and best practices
4. Identify optimization opportunities
Understand the sensitivity of cost drivers and the effectiveness of potential changes
Examples of our work
Our Impact
Automotive suppliers and manufacturers use the R&D Hardware Benchmarking solution to measure the scale of development projects and create insights on potential savings opportunities to boost competitive advantage.
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Featured experts

Carolin Dost
Expert Associate PartnerFrankfurt
Advises advanced industry and medtech clients on development excellence– driving product innovation, financial steering, and...

Anna Herlt
Senior PartnerMunich
Advises companies as they seek to optimize the value of their research and development investments, particularly within the automotive...

Sebastian Küchler
PartnerMunich
Serves clients around the globe on R&D topics with a strong focus on transformation toward future technologies, efficiency improvement,...

Sören Jautelat
PartnerStuttgart
Leading large scale transformation, shaping and scaling new digital businesses. Co-leads McKinsey’s battery acceleration team...