Consultancy

Need a qualified sounding board for your new ideas?
Struggling to break-out in a new market? Need a breakthrough strategy?
Need to lower your COGS? and your design team tells you it's the best it can get?
Need a credible design partner? Or struggling with your teams’ nimbleness?
You’re an Analyst and need industry advice or specific OEM knowledge?

Eversale has provided consultancy for over 25 years, and provides a wealth of knowledge from Management and Leadership in the electronics product development industry.

A consultation can help you 'leapfrog' insights; recognition of under-appreciated risks, and drives decision-makers to higher levels of understanding.

Eversales collaboration options include telephone consultations, written reports, to onsite contracting. Consultancy as research or advice can be as little as a 30 minute consultation to daily / weekly events.

Each Eversale solution is customized to client’s decision-making contexts, project timeframes and organizational preferences. Eversale helps clients understand the combination and sequence of solutions that are most appropriate for their needs.

We take seriously your confidentiality and will gladly protect mutual sharing of information with an appropriate NDA.

Consultancy Areas

General:

Procurement – need help to identify and benchmark new sources
Cost Reduction – need your COGS reducing
Strategy Development
Product roadmapping, technology insight
Offshore engineering - inc hiring, pay scales
Project Planning, Agile or Waterfall
Technical due-diligence for M&A

Industry Specific:

EMS Industry, Competitive landscape
Server / Storage architecture
SAN / NAS architecture
x86 Cores, inc low-power, POS, embedded

M&A:

Use Eversale throughout your process from better triage of new opportunities, to faster assessment of "step-out" acquisitions, to more objective diligence of specific acquisition targets. We can help assess as an Electronic Product development executive subject-matter expert, whether your target has what they claim.

Strategy & Product Marketing:

Subject-matter experts in Electronic Product design can comment on the technological, economic, regulatory, and behavioral trends in the most obscure parts of the value chain and the most obscure regions in the world.

COGS cost reductions:

So you know you have a high COGS or your competition is lower… We have over 25 years experience of REAL value engineering; with most projects more than 10-40% cost reduction. Analysis provides a report in 3 parts, a) part replacement, fit/form/function compatible, AVL expansion, b) new part, requires new PCB layout, but functionally & software compatible, c) maximum return, but requires physical and software development.

Sourcing:

How do you find reputable suppliers? How do you effectively negotiate with an incumbent who has you ‘over-the-barrel’? We have over two decades experience in sourcing hard to find parts and using Asian suppliers to effectively negotiate down your USA/Japan vendors as leverage.

OEM & Industry knowledge:

Great knowledge of the design practice and competitive advantage within Server & Storage Industry & OEMs, and the EMS industry, including competitive advantages of the various players.

Our Customers include :

BCG (Boston Consulting group), BAIN, UBS, many investment capital analysts, and many Product development OEMS

Consultancy subjects include:

SAN / NAS future technology direction, Intel vs. AMD positioning, Medical market design, Component roadmap, Technology roadmap, Power supplies / Efficiencies, EMS industry competition, Value proposition Foxconn / Jabil / Flex / Celestica / Sanmina, Software development AGILE / SCRUM, Product BOM cost Reductions, Architecture reviews, Engineering Design management, China & Low-cost Design

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