Sharing Resource. A Champion Idea

Canterbury Business Champions is a collection “amazing stories of innovation, nimbleness, determination, collaboration and kindness, and together celebrated what it is that makes our business community so unique”. Curated by Westpac and Cantebury Employers Chamber of Commerce, we are pleased to be part of the collection.

The design of the Canterbury Business Champions website makes it hard to share the article, so we’ve included it below. Do visit the website and take a look at some of the other businesses featured—social enterprise, builders, hospitality, health, recreation, training.

A Unique Business Model

Mechanical Design consultancy, Caliber Design, has developed a unique, clever business model that sees them partner with other engineering companies throughout NZ to ‘share’ design engineering resource.

Benefits for Business Owners

For business owners, this helps them manage peaks and troughs, keep their key people employed through challenging times, avoid the risks and hassle of hiring new staff, develop a network of highly skilled and flexible engineers, get new perspectives on design problems, and learn from the highly tuned systems, processes, templates that Caliber Design has developed to ensure seamless staff sharing.

Benefits for Engineers

It’s a plus for the engineers—they learn from gaining experience with different teams, businesses, and industries. It means more variety, job security, and a wider network.

Benefits for NZ Inc

For NZ Inc, it means that skills and experience are cross-pollinated through the industry and a stronger skill base is the result. Upskilling across the industry occurs while businesses collaborate and support each other to deliver their projects on time, on spec, and on budget.