With more than 40 years of experience in the GNSS receiver industry, dammven is perfectly positioned to help you with your strategic, tactical and operational challenges, whether you’re a OEM, a Tier-1 or a Tier-2 company in the Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) Industry.
Please see the following examples of areas where dammven can contribute most:
Strategic Analysis, Synthesis and Execution
- Analyze and review your company’s current strategy, its position on the competitive landscape and the company’s DNA
- Develop and propose a mid/long term strategic direction and plan, taking into account market trends, technology evolution and partnership opportunities.
- Create business plan / lean canvases for the strategic options, and carry out risk assessments
- Management coaching in implementation of strategic initiatives
These steps are typically done in close collaboration with your management team.
Markets & Technology Trend Analysis
- Evaluate upcoming GNSS use cases and applications. Provide insights into market segments and identify customer needs.
- Prepare and plan the expansion into new markets and geographies
- Assess the global competitive landscape in a market segment, and estimate the possible strategies and tactics
Organization and Processes
- Support in general- and change management
- Review of organization and development processes
- Independent inputs on tools, methods and best practices
- Supplier selection and management
- Dealing with growth pains
- Hiring and retention, identifying high potentials
Research & Development
- Understand and analyze your company’s core values and technology
- Evaluate your IP portfolio and its strategic relevance
- Architectural review of your solutions
- Review of problem-solution fit of existing and upcoming products
- Set up innovation management throughout the company
- Initiate and maintain university partnerships
- Establish external innovation and corporate venturing
Partnerships and Mergers&Acquisitions
- Establish partnerships in the GNSS industry by evaluating potential partners, assess their strategic fit and shortlist options.
- Initiate contact, negotiate the framework and bring the partnership proposal to a decision point
- Carry out due diligence for M&A, negotiate terms and conduct negotiations
- Support management team in post-acquisition integration
Marketing Strategy
- Devise a marketing strategy
- Definition of the marketing mix
- Product positioning
- Go-to-market planning and execution
- Selection of a suitable channel strategy
Examples of recent and ongoing involvements
- Advising a globally active GNSS receiver manufacturer on future strategy (products, markets and technologies). A multi-month activity onsite and offsite, leading to decision meetings by the customer in October 2019 . Thereafter, leading several strategic and corporate level projects
- Coaching the founder team of a RTK+Computer vision startup company on general management and strategy. Further, support in fundraising which was successful in October 2019 by bringing in a silicon valley based VC
- Advising a GNSS technology company on bringing their intellectual property to market.
- Advising a VC fund and several Business Angels on investing into a GNSS startup company
Involvement Terms and Conditions
- A formal agreement will be put in place to govern the involvement by dammven
- Compensation is based on a daily rate. Please contact us for details
- Work is usually performed offsite, but we will travel worldwide if required
- Work can be carried out in English or German language
- In case of a possible conflict of interest, dammven will refuse to take on a conflicting activity. During consulting work, dammven will not work with direct competitors to the client. If desired, a cooldown period can be agreed upon
