Boutique consultancy
We are a specialised consultancy, focusing on supporting large and innovative infrastructure projects. Most of our customers are from shipbuilding and process industries. We are based in Norway, with staff in Oslo and Stavanger, but we have parts of our customers also in other European countries.
Below we write about some of the principles that we operate our business from, and our team.
Principles
Repetition through focus
Our consultancy focuses on a small subset of the challenges of large infrastructure projects, such as early phase design and soft funding. Having this focus and repeating this work for and with large customers brings quality to the work.
Keep innovation practical
A danger with innovation projects is that you try to bring something new through adding complexity that does not help solve the problem. A part of viable industrial innovation is to avoid over-engineering.
Design for the long-term
When we deliver project design and grant applications, they are written with long-term implementation in mind. Much of our work is done for customers and partners that we have worked with for many years.
One customer per segment
We are a small consultancy working on projects where the IP is sensitive. For both these reasons it makes sense to work for one client per segment, where we often build relationships for many years.
Team
Pål Vigmostad
Pål combines a research background and long industry experience. In addition to his work in Samstø, he co-founded Netview (sold to Opera Software) and the investment company YDM. Through his investment activities he has worked as General Manager in one of his investments (FlexFuels AS, co-owned by Gasnor/Molgas). In between his work in Netview/Opera and YDM he also worked a few years as a research scientist in NORCE.
Haakon Riiser
Haakon is in charge of analytics activities. He co-founded Netview, leading product development of video products such as the video engine used by SONY TVs. Worked as team-lead of core development at Opera Software, after Opera purchased Netview. In addition to work at Samstø, Haaon is CEO in a small computer analytics company (Auxios). Originally a physicist, with a PhD in computer science, from the University of Oslo.