Until now, when outsourcing a complex vehicle development programme, OEMs have had a simple but far from ideal choice. Either to choose a large multi-skilled service provider - carrying similar large overhead burdens - or to 'cherry pick' a number of specialists and use valuable, overstretched, in-house resources to project manage them.

ideasfactory is a lean organisation that provides a new solution. From its core of experienced project managers and its unique structure of interlinked specialists, ideasfactory configures itself into a team to meet the client's exact need. It then project manages the team with minimum waste.