Case study
From Breakthrough Technology to Scalable Engineering Delivery
Helping CorPower Ocean scale complex wave energy technology with greater technical clarity and control.
At a glance
As CorPower Ocean prepared to develop its next-generation technology, the opportunity was to strengthen how its 80+ person engineering and delivery team worked around a coherent “source of truth” for a complex, utility-scale product. The core challenge was connecting people, processes, and tools across the lifecycle, spanning needs and requirements, architecture and interfaces, detailed design, integration, verification, validation, operations, and maintenance.
Client: CorPower Ocean
Sector: Renewable energy/wave energy technology
Product type: Integrated mechanical, electrical, control, software, offshore, and grid-connected system
Stage: Scaling from advanced deployment toward utility-scale rollout
Challenge: Strengthening cross-functional coordination, requirements flow-down, interface management, and change control
Navitect role: Systems Engineering diagnostic, leadership alignment, team workshops, and technical delivery framework
Primary benefit: Reduced technical risk, clearer technical priorities, and a coherent basis for scaling complex engineering delivery
“Navitect helped us evaluate and strengthen our ambitious product development goals. The workshops and practical guidance gave us a clear, unified approach across departments and showed the impact of small, targeted improvements in the right places.”
Name, Position, CorPower Ocean
Strengthening CorPower’s Delivery System
CorPower Ocean was preparing to scale an ambitious, complex product. The challenge was not confined to any single technical problem. It was about looking at the organisation as a whole and identifying where targeted improvements in technical management, governance, and information flow would have the greatest impact.
Navitect worked with CorPower to identify the key bottlenecks and leverage points in how technical work moved through the organisation: how decisions were prepared and made, how design reviews were structured, how configuration and design information were managed, how requirements, architecture, and interfaces were kept aligned, and how verification evidence traced back to source requirements.
The opportunity was to build on CorPower’s strong engineering foundations with a more integrative way of working, giving teams a clearer shared picture of the evolving product and strengthening technical control as delivery complexity increased.
A targeted uplift to strengthen technical delivery
Navitect worked across the organisation to identify the highest-impact opportunities for strengthening technical management, governance, and information flow as delivery scaled.
Leadership alignment and diagnostics
Structured reviews and leadership workshops identified key bottlenecks and leverage points in how technical work moved through the organisation, from decision-making and design reviews to configuration and information management.
Shared technical language across teams
A targeted workshop series helped build a shared technical language across leadership and delivery teams, with a focus on requirements, architecture, interfaces, verification, and lifecycle thinking.
A practical engineering delivery model
The insights were translated into a practical, right-sized technical delivery model, improving alignment, visibility, and control as the product and organisation continued to scale.
An integrative approach for scalable delivery
CorPower gained a sharper basis for managing technical delivery at scale: clearer priorities, better-connected technical information, and stronger control across a rapidly evolving product.
A clear product narrative and “source of truth”
Teams had a stronger shared picture of how needs, requirements, architecture, interfaces, verification, and lifecycle priorities connected, making it easier to align technical work across departments.
Better engineering decisions, earlier
Leadership and delivery teams could see where improvements would have the greatest impact, helping focus effort on the bottlenecks and leverage points that mattered most.
Control without bureaucracy
The work gave CorPower a practical path for strengthening Systems Engineering in a way that supported speed, clarity, and confidence as the organisation moved towards larger-scale deployment.
This work shows how Navitect helps ambitious, deep tech organisations identify where systems engineering will have the greatest impact, align teams around a coherent product picture, and strengthen the foundations for scalable delivery.