Value-First Consulting

We help organizations with our experience, expertise and co-innovation network to ensure they achieve value from their investments in digital technologies and business models.
Value for us is broader than just cost savings, revenue increase and profits. It also includes customer and employee satisfaction, environmental and social impact, as well as making the planet a better place to live for future generations.

We believe that the usage of technical standards and engagement in digital eco-systems will accelerate the development of solutions as well as improve their quality. Hence we are active in standard organization associations like Catena-X, Industrial Digital Twin Consortium, Institute of Asset Management, Manufacturing-X, Digital Twin Consortium and others. You can find our Value Network here.

We are one of the first Catena-X Qualified Advisory Providers globally and this expertise is also relevant in other X-Initiatives, like Semiconductor-X, Chemical-X or Energy Data-X

We focus on specific topics, but are able to deliver holistic consulting and implementation engagements through our broad value network.

Circular Supply Chains
Circular Supply Chains are needed to improve the sustainability performance of an organization. This includes eco-design for products, using recycled raw material, as well es 4Rs at the end of a product life cycle.

Supply Chain Resilience
Supply Chain Resilience is required to mitigate the risk of disruption in the supply as well as react fast to supply chain disruptions.

Supply Chain Transparency
Supply Chain Transparency is not only required from a compliance perspective, but also a necessary step to improve Supply Chain performance and resilience.

ESG Reporting
ESG Reporting is not only required in many jurisdictions from a compliance perspective, but it is also a communication device, internally and externally, to show the sustainability performance of an organization. This could improve the public image, attract new customer and talent, lower insurance premium and lowers cost of capital.

ESG Business Case
A ESG Business Case shows how to measure the business value of ESG investment through the creation of business value portfolio and how to expand your business case template.

ESG KPI Optimization

Through the introduction of ESG in the organization, KPIs for units, teams and individuals need to be extended in order to make sure the organization hits its ESG goals. ESG KPI Optimization help with defining and tracking ESG KPIs, enabling an optimization.

Manufacturing-X Strategy & Architecture
Manufacturing-X is a portfolio of Industry 4.0 initiatives, including Catena-X, that have the goal to make asset-intensive industries more sustainable and resilient, as well as improve the quality of products and processes. This is achieve through standards, blueprints and best practices, defined by a pre-commercial industry ecosystem that is led by technology user organization and invested jointly into improvements in global supply chains.

Digital Twins
Digital Twins provide a holistic view on assets, products and processes and besides creating transparency into operations also enable process optimization and business model innovation.

Data Spaces
Data Spaces provide a secure and standard-based data exchange solution where you remain in control of your data, while significantly reducing your integration efforts with customers, partners and suppliers.

Digital Product Passports
Digital Product Passports provide a standardized data structure for product and material data exchange in a global supply chain. It reduces your efforts to map different data structures between you and your customers, partners and suppliers and keep those mapping up-to-data. Through the standard data structures, it is also easier for AI solutions to consume the data, without a lot of data wrangling.

Solution Development Life Cycle Optimization
Despite improvement through new approaches like Agile, DevOps and low-code/no-code there is still potential to reduce the development time, lower the cost and improve the quality of digital solutions. The impact is a better ROI, improved acceptance with users, customer and partners, as well as the achievement of business benefits earlier, as the solution can go live earlier. Research shows that a model-driven approach to solution development using reference models, standards and genAI tools can further improve the SDLC.