Design Elegance

Technology, expertise and wisdom

Decades of experience have taught us that elegant designs are often the most robust. As we often see in nature, simplicity in form leads to efficiency in function. Designs that are unnecessarily complex may contain unintended operating modes – what we call “sneak paths” – and difficult to discover failure modes. At Treehouse, we strive to create solutions that reflect a simple elegance, that are robust by design and that maximize value to our customers.

Collaboration

Discovery and teamwork

Our most successful engagements are highly collaborative and essentially co-developments. Our shared understanding of the customer’s system and business needs and our knowledge of technologies and product development, bring about the crafting of the optimal solution.

Systems Thinking

Balancing cost, schedule and performance

Years of development experience across a range of industries, company sizes and product developments have led the Treehouse team to believe that creating the right product is not just about meeting A spec, but in meeting the RIGHT spec.  It is the rare case where the initial product specification or services statement of work survives unchanged by the end of a project. Our engineers have learned to consider the wider system implications and to reflect them in the design.  Committing to mask sets or mechanical tooling is an expensive step in product development.  Our engineers have the experience to ask the right questions before tooling that help avoid unnecessary product revisions due to unanticipated system interactions.

Flexibility

Creative Engagement Models

At Treehouse, we pride ourselves on our ability to see things from our client’s point of view. By understanding how what we do affects your business, we not only deliver to the specification but also a solution that fits your business.

Impedance matching, a term often used in the RF world, is to maximize energy transfer from one realm to another. That is our goal at Treehouse: To ‘impedance match’ with our customer so that communication, energy flow, efficiency and trust are maximized.  When trust is high, clear communication flows readily so that issues are resolved quickly.

We employ a flexible engagement model that is built on trust, and that recognizes that each customer’s organization, culture, business and product needs are unique. The Treehouse team has worked in a variety of organizations, on a variety of projects and at varying levels of implementation and management responsibility. This experience gives us the perspective and ability to ‘sync up’ with our customer’s operating style and model. One size does not fit all. Some customers have a full team, and just need Treehouse to perform one task as part of an existing project team. Others rely on us for a turnkey delivery.  Let us know how we can help!