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ElemenceAdvisors
Innovation, Materials & Assembly Consulting, Assessment & Diligence
Our Expertise
Elemence is about materials and assembling those materials into something functional and useful that the market craves. Starting with materials, our expert network conceives of ideas within a consumer and business context. In doing so, we translate desired benefits into features and then those features into materials and assembled products.
Materials
Conception & Application
Materials ideas, especially with those including polymers or reactive systems becoming polymers, center upon understanding the core capability desired. Today, the elimination of solvent and heat while maintaining or enhancing performance are the two dominant desires. Eliminate heat and solvent and your materials options explode in number and thus the possible features to deliver those core benefits multiply inexorably. Accordingly, we together focus first on your customers and your core objective and their link to both of your financials and experiences. We then design a set of specifications that lead us to the "what must be trues" of the desired products.
Venture Creation
Is this a new business?
When the concept is big enough, the early results dramatic enough and the generated interest serious enough, maybe there's even a new business here. Whether a start-up or a new corporate division, our experience together with yours can evaluate the business concept and conduct the diligence necessary to determine if the basic team, economic, performance and financial elements exist with enough differentiation to warrant a new business and even a new business model.
Assembly
Conception & Application
Typically the main challenges that we focus upon are how things are made, assembled and installed or used. The assembly of manufactured goods often centers upon time, heat and maybe solvent use, including water. Eliminate or reduce any of those three and you reduce energy, increase efficiencies, lower costs and generally multiply assembly and product design options. Conceiving of the idealized manufacturing, assembly or use environments and then having those customer or client needs drive idea conception lead to much better specifications and thus a vastly improved ideation and product development process.
Story Boards
Why Invest, Sell or Buy?
When we have a business idea demonstrated enough to prove out the basic economic, performance and financial elements, the real work begins. A simplified story must be told with powerfully simplistic effectiveness that drives the story home almost in an instant. What is the one liner, the 60-second pitch or the 12-slide deck? A truly compelling proposition where the team, the technology and their capabilities only need the investment to win drive the story you need to tell.
Materials & Assembly
Assessment & Due Diligence
Now that you have a material with the proper specifications to fit a basic process or have even discovered one, the application of the "what must be true" specifications to the actual use in a process must be rigorously assessed. It's not until an application and its supply chain are fully vetted that a financial model can be applied. With these models, one can then understand if this concept is worth investing in further. What's the likely cost? The time to commercial readiness? The life cycle costs? Together, we will explore the basics to keep it simple for the top line risks and then delve deeper until acceptable returns and risk are achieved.
Sustainability
Green & Clean Options
Sustainability centers upon holistic environmental impact. Safer, less environmentally impactful, lower energy consuming materials and assembly technologies just make sense. The assembly of manufactured goods often centers upon time, heat and maybe solvent use, including water. If you reduce energy, increase efficiencies, lower costs, multiply product options you improve sustainability and profitability and just maybe help save the planet.