Manufacturing location can go wrong for many reasons, including:

• Selecting a search area on first thoughts rather than on informed perspectives

• Inadequate assessment of labor pool breadth and skill depth

• Focus on optimizing just labor costs

• Too optimistic views on access to markets and suppliers

• Using overseas' plant specifications without tailoring them to local circumstances

We ensure efficient and robust Manufacturing location decisions by:

• Distilling the critical location drivers of your project

• Quickly zooming in on viable locations

• Adequate due-diligence on cost and non-cost factors

• Developing realistic expectations regarding incentives

• Careful development of exit strategies

Shared services & GBS can fail, for example when companies:

• Ill-align locations with their Shared services & GBS processes

• Ignore the need for scalability

• Underestimate how location impacts TOM/SDM, and ramp-up phasing

• Ignore destination options off the beaten track

• Do not adapt their organization and managent style to local practices

We ensure robust Shared services & GBS decisions by:

• Identifying how location options impact TOM and SDM

• Selecting cities where your operations can scale-up

• Balancing cost efficiency and service quality

• Advising on captive versus outsourcing

• Selecting mirco-locations that help to attract and retain talent

Typical challences when making office location decisions::

• What type of workplace and where

• How can space stimulate innovation, collaborative working, scrum development

• How to structure to tomorrow’s mobility imperatives

• How to optimize/consolidate multiple sites after M&A

• How to reduce office exploitation costs

We ensure robust Office decisions by:

• Carefully mapping working relationships and proximity needs

• Assessing feasibility to implement new ways of working

• Detailing lease versus buy options and negotiating rents

• Forging all-stakeholder support

• Developing and implementing effective change management

Key causes for FDI promotion to fail include: 

• Strategies not aligned with the location offer, or with what
  investors really want

• Overestimation of own strengths, underestimation of the competition

• Unclear focus of effforts and communication

• Too little business acumen in the investment promotion agency

• Lack of coordination, of top-level commitment and no unified approach by local stakeholders

We lay the basis for successful FDI promotion by:

• Defining a location’s SWOT from the investor’s viewpoint

• Developing realistic sectoral development and go-to-market strategies

• City and regional benchmarking

• Structuring investment agencies and mobilizing local partners support

• Delivering tailored trainings and coaching