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How does a "smaller" company keep up with behemoth - mervinrasquinha

I've wondered this a few times. What keeps small companies ahead of big ass corps with much more resources? Performance wise I mean. Do they snag the best engineers or something? And how do they compete materials wise? Do the big ones simply not care about innovating performance?

How does a "smaller" company keep up with behemoth - madf

Study Dyson And Musk with Tesla,

How does a "smaller" company keep up with behemoth - badbusdriver

I've wondered this a few times. What keeps small companies ahead of big ass corps with much more resources? Performance wise I mean. Do they snag the best engineers or something? And how do they compete materials wise? Do the big ones simply not care about innovating performance?

I don't understand the question?, what is the context?, which companies are you talking about?, and what do you mean by "innovating performance"?.

With regards to snagging the best engineers, no rocket science there, the bigger company has a bigger budget, so will be able to offer the engineer in question more money.

How does a "smaller" company keep up with behemoth - kiss (keep it simple)

Exclusivity and the ability to charge more to make up for higher production costs. Buy in expensive items like engines and transmissions.

How does a "smaller" company keep up with behemoth - Sofa Spud

By using major components supplied by one of the behemoths?

I guess I'm saying the same as the previous post, in different words !!

Edited by Sofa Spud on 15/12/2019 at 23:22

How does a "smaller" company keep up with behemoth - Andrew-T

Not sure why any of us gets sucked into answering this kind of dubious-looking post ....

How does a "smaller" company keep up with behemoth - Avant

Moved to non-motoring.

If a link appears it and the account will be deleted.

How does a "smaller" company keep up with behemoth - Engineer Andy

Moved to non-motoring.

If a link appears it and the account will be deleted.

Indeed - I could be wrong, but IMHO the OP's use of language has a definate whiff of (American) canned pork products about it.

How does a "smaller" company keep up with behemoth - Leif

Assuming this is a genuine question ...

In software big companies can have a large hard to maintain product with lots of old code that with time has become expensive and difficult to maintain. A small company can start from scratch, producing something with more modern design methods and coding tools, that is far cheaper to maintain and extend. And in general big companies can become bloated, bureaucratic and inefficient, serving the internal hierarchy rather than customer needs.

Conversely small comoanies can lack expertise, or the resources to do things with proper quality controls. Big companies might have processes and test teams in place to ensure conformance to customer requirements and to maintain quality.

There’s lots of answers to this question.