Joachim Ebert

Joachim Ebert is a partner in A.T. Kearney and the Americas practice leader for A.T. Kearney’s complexity management, serving a variety of industries around the world. Joachim has over fourteen years of industry and consulting experience in the U.S., Europe, Asia, Australia, and South Africa.

Joachim’s consulting focuses on complexity management, product development effectiveness & efficiency, lean operations & turn-around management, quality improvement & warranty cost reduction, product/program management, organizational redesign—with an emphasis on automotive.

Representative engagements include:

• Complexity reduction for NA automotive: portfolio reduction, component & sub-system convergence, variant reduction, and build reduction for car & truck models
• Complexity reduction initiative for European automotive company
• Complexity reduction for global high tech company
• Component and portfolio complexity reduction for Indian commercial vehicle mfg.
• Complexity management processes and tools (Electronic Parts Catalog) global OEM
• Activity-based costing system for de-proliferation opportunities in engineering, purchasing, component manufacturing, and assembly for a European automotive co.
• Product complexity reduction for Australian automotive company

Joachim has contributed to numerous articles on complexity management and is frequently quoted by the media related to automotive industry trends and insights.

He earned an M.B.A. from INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France, and a MSc in industrial engineering from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. Joachim has also been a Visiting Fellow at the Sloan School, M.I.T., Cambridge, U.S.A.