Gain the Confidence to Deliver Embedded Products with Excellence
Using the trusted Reliance Framework, we make product creation simpler and better aligned with customer needs.
“Immediately grasp difficult situations and quickly find the right solutions.”
—Marelli Automotive Lighting Reutlingen GmbH
“Achieve significant accelerations and overcome outdated habits.”
—SMA Solar Technology AG
“Introduced new ideas and concepts.”
—Eeins Embedded Experts GmbH
What Our Customers Experience Every Day
“We learned that the typical setup in most companies keeps experts working in silos, which limits collaboration and alignment. Specialized knowledge stays trapped in individual domains, and teams often struggle to connect their efforts to shared goals. This creates gaps that hurt product success. The training showed how to break those silos, align expertise across teams, and ensure everyone works towards a common outcome. It’s about turning isolated knowledge into unified action.”
Typical
Specialized knowledge stays isolated
People struggle to align on customer success
Experts want to be right in their silo
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Product
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Competence Center
With Reliance Framework
Experts unite in a Competence Center with a shared product focus
Isolated specialists become a cohesive Hero Team
The product benefits from the combined strengths of all expertise
What Sets Embedded Solutions Apart When It Comes to Delighting Consumers?
A one-pager by the Embedded Business Innovation Center - 2025
Success isn't just about transforming ideas into market-ready solutions
Developing solutions on-site in our Creative Room
Imagine waking up one day and looking at your company: your team operates like a finely tuned machine, there is a seamless integration between your processes, and you have gained the unwavering confidence to make decisions.
This is the result of consistent resilience.
Your embedded device has transcended mere product status—it has emerged as a market leader, celebrated by everyone for its unmatched quality and reliability. Customers believe in your brand while competitors scramble to keep pace.
How do you cultivate such reliance?
Turn ambition into a powerhouse system where success feels inevitable!
The risk of getting stuck
First, consider the difference between uniformed and informed optimism when making strategic decisions.
Uniformed optimism leads to decisions driven by hope and assumptions, often overlooking critical challenges and risks.
Informed optimism, on the other hand, is grounded in data and realistic planning, ensuring strategic progress with resilience.
Ask yourself: What is the most critical decision to make, and when is the right time to make it?
To be on the upward curve of strategic efficiency, decisions must be made with informed optimism—at the right time and with the right resources. Miss the chance to adapt or innovate and your competitors will capture the opportunity.
Balance enthusiasm with realistic expectations and back it with a solid action plan.
Life-cycle of strategic efficiency: The inflection point marks the transition from decision-making ambiguity to either continuous growth or growing opportunity costs, as well as the moment when investment turns into cash-positive returns.
The Challenge of Building
To know what to do and when, it's essential to bring together a team of experts who can handle the risks and strategic decisions you need to make for success.
Setting up a Competence Center can save you time and money by making it easier to form specialized teams in your organization. But we also know that getting this center off the ground can take a lot of time and resources, which might feel overwhelming. Some of the constraints are:
High Costs: Building an expert team costs an estimated 500,000 Euro annually.
Time Investment: Setting up the necessary infrastructure takes 3 to 7 years.
Competitive Pressure: Competitors may reach the market faster, putting your product at risk of losing relevance.
Without this center, teams struggle with inconsistent methods, leading to inefficiencies, misaligned practices, and unchecked bureaucracy. These challenges disconnect technical methods from market objectives, transforming progress into a resource-draining race with uncertain outcomes.
What if there were a more straightforward way?
Uniting Expertise for Strategic Product Success
Every department within the company plays a crucial role in this interconnected product creation process. To ensure success, unlock the valuable potential within your organization—your people.
Each department plays a vital role in your product journey.
By forming a unified team with targeted expertise, we align management's strategic goals with the operational excellence of your product creators.
We call those people stepping up your Hero Team.
What the Hero Team Does
Streamlines the product creation process.
Aligns cost accounting, pricing strategies, and customer engagement with device features.They streamline the product creation process, ensuring success when cost accounting, pricing, and customer engagement align with device features.
The Hero Team will be your key strategic alliance, making and executing essential tactical decisions.
Product & Business Life-Cycle: Five Dilemmas, mark the crucial points where strategic decisions make or break the business in their journey to place a product. They are accompanied by symptoms such as sluggish daily work or usual organizational behaviors breaking down, followed by increased inefficiency.
Collaboration Structure
This process ensures me to achieve my embedded product goals this year. With minimal effort on the team and maximum clarity, leaving no room for confusion.
Start with a Self-Assessment
30-minute evaluation of my product development enviorment.
Highlights key challenges and priorities.
Provides clear focus on actionable problems to tackle immediately.
Ensure alignment on customer satisfaction goals.
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Start of my Operations
Tangible results increase my customer satisfaction.
Drives improvements in ongoing projects.
On-the-job training for my team with minimal disruption.
My team adapts quickly to the new system and processes.
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Set Up of my Competence Center
My people handle product creation independently of me.
We set up my very own competence center with the right technologies and methods, establishing the reliance framework, and defining my hero team.
My competence center will be fully operational and seamlessly integrated into my organization, ready to deliver results without additional effort on my part.
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There is only one thing left I need to do now. I will enable my organization to embrace creativity while we stay aligned with product market goals.
Valuable insights into real-world applications
Performance Comparison of Service Providers
| Embedded Business Innovation Center (EBIC) | Accelerator | Consulting Agency | Center of Excellence | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summary | An Embedded Business Innovation Center supports your embedded product development lifecycle, from ideation to market acceptance. By offering comprehensive solutions that align business models with product creation maturity, ensuring sustainable growth and competitive advantage. |
An accelerator helps improve your embedded product development by providing a focused environment. But to achieve product-market fit its leveraging a closed network for rapid growth and market entry. |
A consulting agency enhances your embedded product creation by bringing in hired experts who offer specialized knowledge. But only supplier monitoring and coordinated project management will enable you to navigate complex challenges effectively. |
A Center of Excellence (CoE) provides an organizational framework to support continuous improvement and drive innovation. But it centralizes best practices, offers specialized expertise, and facilitates collaboration across teams. |
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| Their Success Factor | Improved ease of working on embedded products. | Successful Pitch Event (-) | Sold project hours (-) | Improvement of processes (--) | |
| Capabilities | Lifecycle of embedded product creation from ideation till market acceptance (EPLP) | Improve Product-Market Fit with Network (-) | Hired Experts and their Coordination (-) | ||
| Advisory Applicable | Ideation till market placement | Only till Market Entry stage (-) | Only after Market Pull stage (-) | Only after coordination stage (--) | |
| Client Selection | Helps those who want to establish embedded products, regardless of their stage | Restricted to Candidates of successful pitches (-) | none, opertunistic (--) | name reconition (-) | |
| Collaboration Flexibility | Contract success is based on embedded product opportunity. | Restricted with rigid program (-) | Service contract based on projects (-) | none, need adhire to norms (--) | |
| Cost Efficiency | High, based on cost-effectiveness by leveraging existing supported state-of-the-art standards. | Low due to equity share (--) | Low and based on supplier monitoring (--) | Inaccessible (-) |
Now that I've watched the intro video and explored the performance comparison of service providers. There's only one thing left for me to do, I will empower my organization to embrace creativity.