Industrial transformation · PLM/ERP · AI value · Europe

Choose the transformation before you choose the software.

NordVantis helps industrial companies—from mid-market businesses to global enterprises—turn complex digital and AI ambition into better decisions, governed execution and measurable business value.

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NordVantis
Independent judgmentClient-side advice without software or vendor bias.
Senior-led deliveryDirect CXO access and experienced accountability.
Agile executionFocused teams without a large consulting pyramid.
Global capabilityEuropean leadership with onshore and offshore expertise.
NordVantis at a glance

From strategic decision to measurable performance.

NordVantis is a senior-led transformation and performance partner for industrial technology and services businesses. We help CXOs shape the right digital and AI-enabled transformation, strengthen its economics and operating model, mobilise the right delivery ecosystem and remain accountable through implementation.

The consulting perspective to shape the decision. The P&L discipline to protect the economics. The operating experience to make it happen.
The NordVantis executive agenda

Four connected executive agendas. One accountable transformation partner.

NordVantis connects technology transformation, services growth, operating economics and programme value realisation—while making clear which leadership teams each agenda serves.

NordVantis four connected executive agendas: PLM, ERP and digital transformation; profitable services growth; strategic cost, operating model and sourcing; and programme diagnostics, recovery and value realisation. The agendas connect governed execution with stronger economics and identify the relevant industrial-enterprise and technology-provider buyers.

Senior-led. Independent. Accountable through execution.

What we deliver

Four routes to stronger transformation performance.

Each engagement begins with the buyer's immediate business issue—not a catalogue of consulting services.

Priority capability

PLM/ERP and AI-enabled transformation

Define the transformation before selecting the software, AI platform or delivery model—then mobilise the leadership and capability required to implement it.

  • Business case, use-case portfolio, roadmap and decision assurance
  • Vendor selection, contracting and implementation governance
  • Senior-led delivery with specialist onshore and cost-optimised offshore capability
  • Business–IT–data alignment, adoption and sustainable support
Growth and performance

Profitable growth and commercial performance

Transform software and services businesses into scalable, trusted and financially stronger growth engines.

  • Services portfolios and AI-enabled offering development
  • P&L, margin, delivery productivity and revenue-quality improvement
  • Go-to-market, strategic pursuit and account performance
  • Knowledge reuse, pricing and commercial scalability
Economics and ecosystem

Strategic cost, operating model and sourcing

Create structural cost advantage without destabilising customers, delivery or critical industrial capabilities.

  • AI-enabled workflow redesign and strategic cost optimisation
  • Operating-model, shared-services and footprint redesign
  • Build, buy or partner decisions; outsourcing and offshoring
  • Vendor strategy, contracts and supplier performance
Control and outcomes

Programme recovery, diagnostics and governance

Restore executive control where complexity, alignment, economics or supplier performance place business outcomes at risk.

  • Independent transformation, AI portfolio and programme diagnostics
  • Portfolio, PMO and executive governance
  • Programme recovery, re-baselining and transition assurance
  • Benefit ownership and governance through value realisation
AI value realisation

Move AI from fragmented pilots to governed business value.

AI is not a separate technology catalogue at NordVantis. It is a value-realisation lens across transformation, services growth, operating-model change and programme governance.

Value before noveltyPrioritise use cases against revenue, cost, service, working-capital or risk outcomes.
Workflow before toolRedesign work, ownership and decisions—not simply insert AI into the current process.
Governance before scaleMake benefits, risk, data, partners and decision rights explicit.
Specialists where neededNordVantis owns the transformation and value layer; technical partners provide deep engineering.
Who we help

Built for mid-market speed. Proven for enterprise complexity.

NordVantis gives mid-market leaders direct access to senior transformation capability while providing global enterprises with an independent client-side centre of gravity.

Industrial mid-market companies

Pragmatic decisions, right-sized governance and flexible delivery—without the overhead or delay of a large consulting structure.

Global industrial enterprises

Independent CXO alignment, multi-vendor control and transformation governance across complex organisations, countries and delivery ecosystems.

Industrial software and services

Profitable growth, service-portfolio performance and scalable delivery.

Industrial technology transformation

PLM/ERP investment, business–IT alignment and client-side supplier assurance.

CFO/COO transformation

Structural cost improvement, operating-model redesign and value tracking.

India/CEE firms expanding in Europe

Trusted European growth, strategic pursuits and aligned global delivery.

PE-backed technology businesses

EBITDA improvement, operating scalability and value-creation execution.

Consultancies and integrators

Senior industrial leadership for strategic pursuits and complex engagements.

Agility and action

A low-risk way to move from question to outcome.

Start with one clearly bounded issue. Expand only when the fact base and value case justify it.

Focused CXO conversation

Clarify the business trigger, decision horizon and value at stake.

Independent diagnostic

Build the fact base, expose risks and define a practical action path.

Transformation execution

Mobilise accountable leadership, governance and delivery capability.

Value realisation

Track business outcomes, embed capability and transition sustainable ownership.

Why NordVantis

Senior judgment without the consulting pyramid.

NordVantis combines Accenture experience, global P&L accountability and hands-on industrial execution—then mobilises specialist AI and technology partners where deeper technical capacity is required.

A different operating model
Independent advice. Direct CXO access. Clear ownership. Disciplined communication. Accountable implementation.

Where additional capacity is required, NordVantis mobilises specialist partners through a flexible European, onshore and cost-optimised offshore model—without introducing another large consulting structure.

20+ years across Siemens and AccentureIndustrial technology, services, transformation and consulting experience.
Global P&L leadershipCommercial accountability across software, services, customers and delivery.
CXO and CFO partnershipCost, sourcing, portfolio and operating-model programmes with executive stakeholders.
Strategic vendor managementSelection, contracts, transition, performance and multi-vendor governance.
Cross-cultural executionLeadership experience across Europe, Asia-Pacific and North America.
Structure under pressureTransparent status, decisions, risks, ownership and disciplined follow-through.
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Ganesh KakdeFounder · Budapest, Hungary

Consulting perspective. Operator accountability.

Ganesh Kakde founded NordVantis after more than two decades in industrial technology and global services leadership across Siemens and Accenture. His experience spans transformation strategy, PLM and enterprise delivery, services P&L, commercial growth, strategic cost programmes, portfolio governance and complex customer and supplier ecosystems.

Having worked and lived across Europe, Asia-Pacific and North America, he brings the cross-cultural alignment required to connect CXO priorities, industrial business teams, technology organisations and global delivery partners.

Advanced leadership credentials developed through Siemens and INSEAD executive education.
Start with the decision

Before you commit to the software, AI platform, supplier or recovery path, speak with NordVantis.

A focused conversation can test the transformation logic, expose avoidable risk and identify where independent senior support would make the greatest difference.

Email · ganeshkakde@nordvantis.comLinkedIn · Ganesh KakdeNordVantis Kft. · Budapest, Hungary
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