Neither of us has ten years of habits in any one industry. That is why we ask the questions your own people stopped asking.
The people
Both of us built our way out of our own manual work before we started doing it for other companies.
Civil engineering, Aalto University
Taught himself 3D and visual effects and spent several years freelancing on it, most of that for clients outside Finland. When rendering turned into the slowest part of his own pipeline, he built a remote rendering tool and took the wait out of it.
tobias.rossi@rossblad.comMechanical and energy engineering, Aalto University
Ran several online stores through his school years, alongside web and 3D work for clients. Running them end to end meant doing the marketing, the conversion, the fulfilment, and the dozens of small manual tasks in between.
samuel.liljeblad@rossblad.comWhy this works
Neither of us is going to out-experience someone who has run a plant for twenty years. What we are good at is walking into an operation we have never seen, working out how it actually runs rather than how it is supposed to run, and finding where it is losing time and money.
Being new to an industry is why that works. We have no habits in it, no system we are attached to, and nothing to protect.
Engagements run in Finnish. Interviews, workshops and the report itself are all in Finnish unless you would rather they were not.