Co-creator
For co-creatorship to be successful it is essential for the partners to have a good working relationship and that they bring their respective developing expertise. The parties have to work together from an early stage on. A co-creation partnership may focus on improvement of the mutual logistic processes, quality of the final product, joined product design and development, or the actual execution of the project.
The ‘open book’ principle serves as the commercial basis: payment of the materials and production hours and a fee agreed upon upfront. This method’s advantage is the fact that Kuipers Woudsend and the client aim at a reduction of the Total Cost of Ownership together. Recent examples of co-creatorship resulted in a cost reduction of 25%.
Kuipers Woudsend contributes to the developing process of the clients’ products by bringing developing expertise with regard to production techniques and detailed design. Integration of the client and Kuipers Woudsend yields a mutual benefit; a reduction in the developing costs of the final product.