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About

We work inside the organisation — side by side.

SAM — Samarbetande Konsulter, "collaborating consultants" — has spent nearly five decades doing management consulting differently: not as outside analysts who hand over a report, but as people who work within the organisation until the change holds.

Who we are

We believe results are made where the work is actually done — on the shop floor, in the planning meeting, inside the numbers.

So that is where we work. Rather than studying an organisation from the outside and leaving a set of recommendations behind, our consultants embed alongside your people for as long as the change takes to become real. We learn the work by doing it with you, and we hand back capability, not just conclusions.

Our focus has always been the same three things, seen as one whole: the work, the products, and the profitability that connects them. Most of the organisations we work with are industrial and manufacturing businesses wrestling with exactly that combination — complexity that quietly erodes margin, and change that is hard to make stick.

“We don't hand over a report and leave. We stay until it works.”

Heritage

Since 1977.

Nearly five decades working inside industrial and manufacturing organisations — and helping shape how they think about cost and management.

Pioneers in Activity-Based Costing
Among the first to bring true cost visibility into industrial decisions.
Creators of Management by Means
A way of leading by purpose and method rather than by results alone.
Embedded from the start
Working side by side, inside the organisation, since the first engagement.
↓ A short history

From 1977 to today.

1977

Samarbetande Konsulter is founded

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Pioneering Activity-Based Costing

Bringing the true cost of products and orders into plain view for industrial decision-makers. [year & detail — to be supplied]

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Creating Management by Means

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Today

Still side by side

Working inside industrial and manufacturing organisations across [markets — to be supplied], on profitability, product structure and change.

→ The mindset

Principles over numbers.

How we think about the work. These aren't slogans — they're the habits that decide how we show up inside an organisation.

01Means before results.
Improve how the work is actually done, and the numbers follow. Chase the numbers directly and you distort the work.
02Inside, not above.
We sit with the work, not over it — learning the reality of the organisation by being part of it.
03Honesty about cost.
We make the real economics visible to everyone, not only to finance — because shared truth changes decisions.
04Capability that stays.
Success is an organisation that is more able after we leave than it was before we arrived.
+ The people

The consultants who embed with you.

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Careers

Work with us.

We look for people who would rather sit inside the work than present from outside it — curious about industry, comfortable with complexity, and patient enough to stay until change holds.

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Get in touch

Let's talk about your organisation.

Tell us where profitability, product structure or change is getting hard. We'll bring nearly fifty years of working inside organisations like yours.

Start a conversation → info@sam.se →