The Difference

The Grindstone Difference

Simply put. Our mission is to be highly responsive to your changing needs, by delivering the best available resources, rapidly, and fair market prices, who are able to deliver value commensurate with cost.

We weed out the pretenders from the real articles, so you don't have to.

Agility & Speed

Elastic Resourcing - Scale on Demand - We deliver a mix of consulting, managed services, contract labor, and fully elastic services that scale on demand to meet your resourcing profile, knowledge acquisition and leadership needs.

Land The Best First - In the cases where we are landing a team of resources, we land the most capable and competent resource first. By taking this strategy, we found we are able to lay the strongest foundation for our customers.

Hard To Find Resources - We resource the full spectrum of enterprise professionals. From commodity CAD designers, to hard to find systems engineers, program managers, and ILS professionals. Call us, we support the full product development lifecycle.

Quality & Technical Competence

Domain Recruiters - We find our best candidates by using "Domain Recruiters". These are individuals with direct technical competence in the skill set and industry being served. We have found that we build the best teams when we let our heavy hitter domain experts aid in candidate screening.

High Value Resources Fast- We are a lean enterprise, which enables us to provide market leading value by landing highly qualified resources quickly, at competitive market rates, through domain specific recruiting and streamlined processes.

Technical Competence and Team Orientation - We know technical competence and experience, coupled with generously sharing knowledge within a team environment are key success factors for our team members.

Partner Network - We actively cultivate a network of niche providers, to enable rapid and highly qualified resources to rapidly engage in our assignments, in a variable cost manner. You get the quality and experience, in a common engagement model, simplifying your start up, and dealing with a single source of supply.

Lean Operations & Knowledge Management

Collaborative environment - We have adopted a Software As A Service (SaaS) model, establishing a marketing leading collaborative environment, custom developed on an Force.com and Webex technology. This includes on-demand desktop video conferencing, easy to use workforce automation tools, and a document management system. We can leverage the knowledge of our distributed workforce.

Account & Workforce Automation - As part of our collaborative environment, we are able to support account management, and customer self service driven approaches, enabling posting of job requisitions, resumes, tracking candidates, and scheduling interviews.

Industry & Domain Knowledge Base - We actively maintain our internal knowledge base of industry best practices in product development and management, program and project management, logistics engineering and support, and lean engineering. We bring this knowledge to you, and apply it enable rapid value delivery. We are unique in this capability, and it is central to our operations.

Elastic Operations - We make sure to walk the walk, by actively applying elastic service models to our back office operations, enabling a lean enterprise, taking cycle time and cost out of sourcing with us.

GRINDSTONE RESOURCES

Technical Resources That Work