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Many companies within the high-tech industries are now forced to accommodate two conflicting considerations. On the one hand, optimization of its own development with a focus on core competencies and technologies, on the other hand, the need to quickly adapt to market opportunities with new products.
The answer is for more and more outsourcing of parts of the value chain in its product development. Continuous development of knowledge-intensive products in its own core areas typically occurs in companies own R&D apartment while radical innovation and variant of existing products more often is realized in cooperation with one or more external development partners.
The key to success with this model is that the external development company understands the value chain throughout its product development process.
Where development houses have traditionally been characterized by their technological core competences, in the future we see an increasing need for competence within the development process, quality assurance and project management.
Homatic Engineering has a strong history within the participation in all stages of the development process along with core customers who wish to outsource the development of the whole apparatus, from product manager to production manager.
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