Corporate Development and Process Improvement Support
Strategic Planning Support: Work closely with executives and senior staff to define strategy, develop a corporate roadmap, and execution plan based on a variety of inputs and desired outputs. This process considers corporate technology, resources and constraints, market opportunity, barriers of entry, and cost/benefit/risk/reward tradeoffs. The end work product is the development of a detailed plan to achieve milestone and ultimate goals.
Corporate Asset & Deficiencies: For the target market, perform an in-house inventory and identification of gaps in critical technology, staff capability, and sales channels. Development of a plan to fill these gaps through organic growth means, strategic partnering, or acquisition.
Organization Assessment and Review: Perform an assessment of the existing organization. Identify areas that are working well and should be replicated as well as deficient areas. Assess processes, communication channels, capabilities, resource limitations, and other factors which affect quality, cost, and efficiency. Develop a comprehensive plan to address these issues. Execute the plan by working with various department heads to develop a new remedial methodologies and processes.
Engineering Turn-Around Support: Support transition of engineering centric organizations into market based organizations. Re-evaluate product strategy, goals, development plans, processes and methodologies, and staffing. Improve engineering awareness of competitive products, market dynamics, and product deficiencies. Develop implementation plans for improvements. Empower staff and develop motivational management techniques.
Manufacturing Setup or Transition Support: Harbor Cay has worked with multiple companies in establishing world class manufacturing capabilities as well as transiting complex manufacturing lines between vendors and facilities. The outsourcing of critical manufacturing is one of the most important decisions that many companies make, yet this capability often does not fall into our clients core expertise areas. We work closely with our clients to define requires and translate these into the most cost effective and high quality manufacturing capability. We specialize in Asia and low cost base markets, and can help manage the intricacies of working across time zones, language, and other cultural barriers. We can help define manufacturing and supply strategies including Near-Sourcing and other trends in a global environment.
Technology Outsourcing Planning: Achieve significant cost reduction through the transition of U.S. centric technology development to low cost off-shore development in India and China. Identify labor intensive, non-critical product development areas that can be outsourced, identify outsourcing partners, develop transition plan, set up processes to protect key technology and to allow effective tracking and management of outsourcing partners.
ISO-9001/9002 Certification: Support of ISO quality standard certification activities include assessment of current processes and quality systems, development of a quality plan for engineering design (ISO-9001), or manufacturing processes ((ISO-9002). Support registrar selection, work with department heads to fill gaps in existing processes or to develop new one to achieve compliance, coordinate implementation, and support registration audits and follow-on surveillance audits.