Our areas of expertise
Strategy and competitiveness
We help our clients fully understand their competitive environment in order to clarify their vision, set clear business top priorities and identify and activate growth levers to keep a step ahead of competition on their market. We also assist our clients in aligning both their organization and processes when implementing strategic recommendations.
Business model and industrial footprint
- Market analysis and competitive positioning
- Corporate vision and strategic plan definition
- Growth opportunities
- Constructive analysis of the economic and industrial model – development of alternatives
- Make or Buy and industrial strategy
Business transformation
- New governance terms
- Organization and processes redesign
- Change management
Competitiveness plans
- Added value improvement
- Breakdown of cost and lead time reduction objectives by improvement lever
- Management practices rallying resources
- Progressive empowerment and transfer to operational organization
Performance management
- Result-based management: roadmap, risk and opportunity portfolio, contingency
- Resource management: human, financial and material means
- Workload model per skill based on major drivers
- Capture of lessons learnt and internal / external benchmarking
Innovation and product development
Sharp understanding of R&D challenges is part of our core expertise and gives us means to take actions on all aspects of product development: product policy, organization or processes for development and industrialization. Our ability to analyze complexity of products in their functional, physic or industrial aspects is truly distinctive. We thus design product strategies (modularity, platforms,..) to help our clients optimize cost and time to market.
Innovation management
- Practices to stimulate innovation
- Innovation handover for implementation
Governance and modular policy
- Diversity analysis and rationalization
- Re-use management
- Modules and platform strategies implementation
- Configuration management
Design to cost and complexity reduction
- Value analysis
- Design to cost
- Product cost reduction
- Modularity: simplification of functions / components relationships, customers needs variability impact reduction
Management of development cycles
- Development and design process optimization
- Accelerated product maturation
- Mastered risk management policy
- Lean engineering and productivity
R&D efficiency
- CRM and client requirement management
- New product launch capacity: innovations, new products, new functions
- Improvement of standards and compliance with quality, cost and time commitments
Operations efficiency
We help our clients achieve higher performances (cost, quality, lead-time, service) of their operations by making consistent choices among several factors: steering, objectives, organization, business processes and resources. By mastering operations complexity, our analyzes and innovative solutions provide our clients with new improvement levers.
Program management
- Management principles definition, structuring and implementation
- Integrated management of cost, schedules and quality – EVM
- Definition and monitoring of commitments
- Design and implementation of the right synchronization between project and corporate organizations
Resource management
- Organization and allocation processes
- Workload / workforce balancing
- International management of resources: proficiency level on offshore sites and workload transfer
Operational Excellence
- Definition and implementation of the industrial policy
- Supply chain and procurement optimization
- Management model definition, organization alignment and performance monitoring
- Reduction of inventory and “order to delivery” cycle
- Manufacturing cost reduction
- MRO and services excellence
