Setup of new global engineering centres

Establish a best-in-class global engineering centre
by leveraging experience and proven methods

Services

Explore our services, covering the full engineering centre setup journey

Offshoring strategy development

Location advisory

Engineering centre blueprint design

On-site establishment of global engineering centre(s)

Interim centre management

Offshoring strategy development

Go from offshoring intent to a clear path to success

Bring stakeholders on board through a clearly articulated offshoring strategy

Offshoring journeys often originate in the intent to improve competitiveness and/or the desire to
broaden and deepen the access to talent.

In doing so, naturally, questions arise:

What is our offshoring ambition?

Which services or processes should be offshored?

How much can, and should, be offshored?

How will the centre operate and interact with the often many stakeholders?

How do we align and motivate stakeholders to get started on a positive narrative?

What are the risks and what must hold true to succeed?

How we help

Lower risk through clear, coherent offshoring choices

Our offshoring strategy development services seek to answer the above questions and by doing so,
to set a clear path for the offshoring journey ahead.

Whilst each situation is different, this often includes:

Establishing, and getting buy-in, for the strategic rationale and aspiration for offshoring

Identifying the services or processes to offshore along with target volumes

Agreeing on the high-level winning choices for the offshoring centre - from human capital related to fundamental operational choices

Establishing the offshoring plan and timelines

Establishing the offshoring financial business case

Achieving final executive/board approval for the offshoring go-ahead

Risk identification and mitigation

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Location advisory

Determine the best, future-proof, location for your offshoring centre

Minimise regret and create the offshoring platform in a location that suits your needs

Thankfully, it’s a big world out there, providing many offshoring location options.
Conversely, once an offshoring centre is in place, it is hard and painful to relocate it.

In response, our offshoring localisation services, through proven methods, analysis, and prioritisation principles, help you identify the most suitable location for your offshoring centre that will stand the test of time.

How we help

Select your offshoring location based on facts and with a clear rationale

Our localisation service help companies establish and navigate the location option set through a structured process that creates confidence and buy-in to the selected option.

This typically includes:

Determining the driving factors for location evaluation, e.g., cost, cultural fit, talent availability and business environment

Analysing and evaluating location options, incl. peer’s experiences with location(s) in question

Narrowing down the list of options to a shortlist for further analysis

Stakeholder management to arrive at a final location selection

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Engineering centre blueprint design

Design a global engineering centre that delivers value - fast

Enable centre operational efficiency and streamlined decision-making

Global engineering centres typically operate with multiple stakeholders across geographies and disciplines. This increases complexity in terms of how to balance centre ownership with execution power, as well as challenging centre output quality due to the broadened service offtake landscape.

In response, our ‘centre blueprint design’ services, covering:

Governance, including across centres, where applicable

Organisational setup

Processes and tools

deliver a first-time-right engineering centre setup enabling efficiency, high quality and scalability, in turn saving years on the offshoring journey.

How we help

Get the centre fundamentals right and set up your centre for success

Our engineering centre blueprint design services deliver the foundation for offshoring centre success, in terms of creating governance structures and operating models that encourage centre high volume, high quality output.

Typically, this includes:

Collaboratively making key principal choices for the engineering centre operating model

Designing the governance structures and identifying key leaders to partake in the governance
(e.g., centre board)

Designing a centre organisational structure that drives quality, simplicity, and focus

Designing local, context aware, processes, e.g., hiring and quality management processes, to ensure centre efficiency and quality of output

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On-site establishment of global engineering centre(s)

Lower risk through an implementation partner that is with you all the way

Get implementation first-time-right

Implementation matters. A lot. Too often does sub-par implementation result in disappointing outcomes. In an offshoring context, even more so, as implementation occurs in a new setting in terms of culture and geographical location. Add to this the challenge of finding able and willing talent to implement the offshoring centre in the new geography.

How we help

Leverage demonstrated implementation skills and lower implementation risk

Our on-site establishment services aim to de-risk and speed up the global engineering centre implementation.

These services are either delivered hand-in-hand with the appointed General Manager (GM) / Managing Director (MD) of the offshoring centre, or delivered in a format where we take the role as temporary GMs/MDs in close collaboration with the HQ until hand-over.

The centre implementation phase typically includes:

Establishment of the office backbone: e.g., office rental, IT infrastructure, furnishings, first hires of supporting functions

Setting up the management team

Implementation of governance structures and processes

Hiring of first staff and execution of first projects

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Interim centre management

Enable a smooth transition into the centre operational phase

Ready your organisation for centre hand-over

At times, it can be harder than expected to have the right profile in place at the right time to run the offshoring centre.
As such, our interim centre management puts your centre in experienced hands until the internal candidate is ready and in place, allowing centre scaling and maturation to progress uninterruptedly.

How we help

Ensure your centre gets off to the right start, building lasting best-practice

Having operated centres in the past, our interim centre management service covers the end-to-end daily management of the centre, including:

Interfacing to the service offtake offices

Supporting and developing local management teams

Building and maintaining an office culture that enables employees to thrive and develop

Ensuring the offshoring ‘backbone’ of IT, HR, and Facility Management services, allowing efficient engineering service delivery

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Get in touch

Focused and committed to offshoring excellence, we combine hands-on experience with proven methods to deliver offshoring success

Kenneth Hvenegaard

Co-founder

Kenneth has 20+ years of experience within delivery of engineering services, of which 15 years abroad.

Previous responsibilities include overseeing 800+ FTE offshore, across three locations, as well as delivering company-wide transformation projects to the C-suite

khd@factorconsulting.dk

+45 41 76 07 00

Henrik Bredahl Kock

Co-founder

Henrik has 10+ years of experience within the delivery of engineering and management consulting services of which 5 years in global engineering centres. Previous responsibilities include line management of teams up to 50 FTE offshore and successful delivery of both engineering and management consulting engagements

hbk@factorconsulting.dk

+45 26 21 93 65

Establish a best-in-class global engineering centreby leveraging experience and proven methods

Explore our services, covering the full engineering centre setup journey

Go from offshoring intent to a clear path to success

Bring stakeholders on board through a clearly articulated offshoring strategy

How we help

Lower risk through clear, coherent offshoring choices

Determine the best, future-proof, location for your offshoring centre

Minimise regret and create the offshoring platform in a location that suits your needs

How we help

Select your offshoring location based on facts and with a clear rationale

How we help

Lower risk through an implementation partner that is with you all the way

Get implementation first-time-right

How we help

How we help

Get in touch

Focused and committed to offshoring excellence, we combine hands-on experience with proven methods to deliver offshoring success

Kenneth Hvenegaard

Co-founder

Henrik Bredahl Kock

Co-founder

Establish a best-in-class global engineering centre
by leveraging experience and proven methods