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Chemical companies are united by a need to innovate in order to improve the blends that go into final products, get products to market faster, and better meet customers’ requirements.

Andreas Gocke leads The Boston Consulting Group's global work in the chemical sector. He is a core member of the firm's Industrial Goods practice. He is also a core member of BCG’s Center for Digital in Industrials.

Since joining the firm in 1996, Andreas has focused on working with clients in the chemicals industry. He has also acquired deep experience in and knowledge about procurement and the aerospace and defense industries.

He believes strongly in empirically proven patterns of value generation: operational and cost improvements are a must in the short and medium term, whereas sustainable value can be achieved only with successfully implemented growth strategies.

Before joining BCG, Andreas worked at the University of St. Gallen.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

EDUCATION

  • PhD, business administration, University of St. Gallen
  • Business administration studies, University of Tübingen and Brown University

Publications and Videos

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Studie zum Industriestandort Deutschland

Deutschlands Chemie- und Pharmaindustrie am Scheideweg: Hohe Kosten, Fachkräftemangel und Bürokratie belasten – Report zeigt zentrale Hebel für eine zukunftsfähige Branche auf.
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Value Creation in Chemicals 2024: Regional Challenges Persist, but Clear Strategies Win

While our latest report found meaningful improvement in total shareholder return across the chemical industry, the full picture is more nuanced.
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Value Creation in Chemicals 2023: Facing Unprecedented Pressures

In our most recent report, total shareholder return fell dramatically across the industry, rising only in emerging economies and a few product categories. Is this a temporary shock or a new normal?
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Value Creation in Chemicals 2022: Building Resilience as the Crisis Unfolds

Our annual assessment of chemical companies’ TSR shows steady growth from 2017 to 2021, daunting turbulence so far in 2022, and viable strategies for recovering.
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Ten Years of Steady Growth—and a Few Superstars

In this tenth-anniversary report, BCG looks back and ahead. What distinguishes the industry’s highfliers? It’s not location, product line, or M&A. It’s innovation and acumen.
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Chemical Companies Need a Bold New Approach to Value Levers

Commoditization, new consumer attitudes, and shifting environmental regulations, plus COVID-19, are adding up to unprecedented disruption.
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2020年化工行业价值创造报告

化工行业在2020年经历了跌宕起伏，2021年总体行情向好，但不确定性依然存在。化工企业的当务之急是仔细评估当下形势，做到了然于胸，同时结合自身的价值链、资产布局、终端行业覆盖，以及技术、商务和数字化能力制定具体的调整举措。
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Value Creation in Chemicals 2020

Companies that overcome the near-term hurdles of the pandemic will gain long-term advantages.
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Value Creation in Chemicals 2019

Chemical demand weakened last year. Here’s how the winners adapted—and how sustainability impacts the industry.
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Surviving Disruption in Additive Manufacturing

Mastering the interplay between materials and printing technologies will be critical to success in the industry’s increasingly competitive ecosystem.
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Value Creation in Chemicals 2018

The increase in total shareholder value is concentrated in companies that sell specialty products in both emerging and developed markets.
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Consolidation Remakes Chemicals

An active M&A strategy that is tuned to sense new business opportunities around the globe has never been more important.