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Characteristics of the consultant business
Order production – non-repeatable, but...
Dealing with humans...
Vague descriptions of ”commodity” – but necessary
Living off
- knowledge, competencies in specialized fields
- ability to perform
- availability
- on/off flexibility
- knowing the ”future”
- ability to grasp customers situation
- technically, economically and social
- and trust...
3. prevas.com
An example consultant company
- Approx. 500 employees
- Geographically distributed
Sweden, Denmark, Norway
- Looking further out
Dubai, UAE and Bangalore, India
- Close to customers
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Place in supply chain
Typically placed as
single specialist Customer
Either having the enterprise
Or being sub-supplier
to enterprise holder Electronics/ Mechanics Design
SW
Customer
Electronics/
SW
Mechanics Design
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Future demands...
- Diffuse customer network Customer
Customer Customer
- Fast time to market
- Greater product flexibility
- Greater production flexibility
Mech Interface
Design Design
Electronics Software Software
Hardware Embedded Application
Module Off shore
Supplier development Mechanics Mechanics
Free lance
Sub
contractor
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Future solutions – platforms
Increased demands for:
- cost optimization
- time to market
- flexibility during and after the development proces
Move toward making standard products of services
- Hardware platforms
- Operating system platforms
- Template application programming
- Open source
- Smart offerings – ultra fast offerings based on known products
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Future solutions – flexibility
Increased demands for:
- Specialized competences
- Ultra fast availability – on/off availability
- Deep knowledge of customer
Move toward making standard products of services
- Agreements linking customers and suppliers
- Universal development and documentation tools
- Universal norms
- The ability to take on the role of deep knowing buyer rather than developer.
- Smart offerings – ultra fast offerings based on known products
- Financing
Sandra Claesson, Prevas
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A sample consultant company tomorrow
Networking, networking, networking…
- Customers
- Partners
- Sub-suppliers
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Technology in the supply chain - tracing
From RFID tags to microprocessor based:
- Monitoring
- Tracing
- Testing
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Technology in the supply chain - robotics
Automated robotics:
- Monitoring
- Movement
-Testing
Requires:
- Positioning
- Power management
- Real time feed back
- Vision, Ultrasound, radar, laser
- Ultra fast dsp on gadget level
