Industrial Competitiveness
Strengthening the competitiveness of an industrial sector
Sector strategy and competitiveness improvement work with industrial companies, associations and public institutions.
Challenge
A national industrial sector faced pressure from international competition, uneven productivity across firms and limited coordination between public institutions and industry.
What we did
Structured a sector fact base, benchmarked cost and quality performance, ran firm-level diagnostics and facilitated working sessions with industry and institutional stakeholders.
Strategic insight
Sector performance was constrained less by capacity than by capability dispersion: a small group of firms operated near international benchmarks while the majority lacked measurement and engineering depth.
Implementation
Defined a sector upgrading agenda with prioritised actions per firm segment, supported by a shared institutional roadmap and monitoring indicators.
Impact
Qualitative outcomes: a shared diagnostic accepted by industry and institutions, an agreed upgrading agenda, and prioritised interventions for follow-on programme funding.
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