Why Contingency Pack and why US?
How do companies start?
The “zero moment” when there is only the person and the idea. The idea is the maximum expression of a human being. We evolve thanks to new ideas.
A need, and especially a shortcoming, generate new ideas; when we need an object, a service or some knowledge capable of solving our problem.
Well this is exactly what happened.
I had key responsibilities in a large, family-owned, global company in the field of industrial labeling. An impeccable organization in a context of a highly disciplined culture. Few production centers in Europe. First-rate global, continental and national clients. At the beginning of December 2014, one of the factories, the main one in Europe, with a production quota of more than 50% of its supplies in Europe, suffered a severe incident that left it “out of the game” for a year.
In 24 hours, all the failures came out. What could go wrong turned out worse. Mr Murphy was running wild.
Contingency plans never tested; scarce knowledge of the industry players, without the necessary production support in place; an operational management with strong internal and external communication limitations; first-rate customers eager for information that did not reach them for their decision-making.
Fortunately, the Supply Chain and Planning staff, including the Customer Service Team, demonstrated a strong capability for reaction, dedication and proactivity from the first “combat” line, facing intense conversations and negotiations with clients, analyzing massive documents with forecasts where everything was important and top priority.
The episode severely affected my health on February 20, 2015, leaving me “out of action” for 6 months.
This event was my ZERO MOMENT.
The experience that years of professionalism have given me, in the field of packaging, and my continuing academic training can be found in my LinkedIn profile Linkedin.
The return to the company changed everything. Still in recovery but with enough clairvoyance to read “Game Over” signs.
Destiny offers you the opportunity to try something completely different: your own project. An initiative that I would never have tried had it not been for these circumstances; Fully identified with the company and its property, felt (before the episode) highly valued, with increasing responsibilities without asking for them, full of ideas and hopes for the future, and very well compensated. Who would give it all up to face an uncertainty? No one, let’s be realistic.
On March 1, 2016, the first draft of the idea that turned into a business model began to take form on a blank page: a consultancy for the design, implementation and testing of contingency operating plans, through collaboration between Twin companies in non-competitive environments, aimed at SMEs, initially in the industrial printing sector.
VISION
You project yourself into the future; you visualise your idea, the activity, the team, the clients (still without a name and surname).s.
You don’t see the details, but you see its shape. You talk to your surroundings; You verbalize your idea and listen to yourself.
Contingency Pack’S VISION is to consolidate a European operating network of small and medium-sized companies, who can offer their customers an incident-proof supply capability, thanks to a verified and proven Contingency Plan. Initially in the printed packaging sector, with the intention to expand the method to other industrial sectors.
THE BRAND: Why Contingency Pack?
The essence of the idea that sustains the Contingency Plan is the PACT between two companies.
It was necessary to add the “K” to make the name more “packaging”, so we arrived at the PACKT. And since agreements have to be formalized with contracts, we put a touch of “Latin legality” to the name and thus Contingency Pack emerged.
I placed the brand’s aethetics in the hands of a professional: Jordi Bardolet, co-owner of the creative agency AMBAR PARTNERS.
Jordi wanted to contribute to my project with his creativity. We met professionally, collaborating on projects for label printing. Strong and sincere life ties were established. His contribution was an altruistic support and for me a gift that left me speechless.
He gathered his team, listened to me carefully, asked me some details to better understand my project.
This is the fantastic outcome:
A special mention to the logo
It is the symbolic representation of the SPECULAR IMAGE of a company, in a different environment than your geographic market, in order to build a collaborative relationship.
Pure graphic metaphor of the MISSION of the Project. A brilliant idea from the Jordi Bardolet Team.
MISSION
We understand the MISSION of our company, of our project, when we must repeatedly answer the raison d’être of our activity.
Every time you answer this question you add a nuance. Every time you verbalize your reasoning, you put order and meaning to your service proposal. Clients help you understand the MISSION of your company and project.
Contingency Pack’S MISSION is to contribute to the consolidation of an industrial activity, that takes advantage of operational synergies and enhances innovation, by sharing knowledge and creativity.
PURPOSE
We reachPURPOSE, not thanks to our clients’ questions, but because of our own deep reasoning. We have intrinsic values that lead us to those activities that are in harmony with them. Regardless of whether it is your own project, or you are employed in a company, the purpose is what gives meaning to our actions.
Contingency Pack’S PURPOSE is to preserve and protect the efforts of entrepreneurs, by transforming their idea into a tangible reality.
Contingency Pack is the brand of the company Contingency-Pack S.L., inspired by one idea and one person, evolving now with a dynamic and growing team designing, implementing and testing Contingency and Business Continuity Plans in companies like yours.
