Systems consulting with a product mindset

Technical consulting for teams building complex semiconductor and wireless systems.

3B Consultancy helps engineering organizations clarify architecture, improve delivery practices, and move difficult system-level work from ambiguity to dependable execution.

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Focus
EDA, embedded software, wireless, industrial systems
Featured areas
EDA, SoC platforms, agile resources, corporate games, technical papers
Delivery style
Straightforward, technical, and highly collaborative, with Silicon Valley engineering context

Professional Profile

Silicon Valley EDA and technical leadership credentials

Bertrand Blanc brings experience across EDA tools, large-scale silicon development, agile delivery, innovation facilitation, and technical leadership in demanding engineering environments.

Current signal

Silicon Valley engineering context

San Jose, California professional base with EDA tools and semiconductor software experience.

Network

865 followers and 500+ connections

A visible technical network around EDA, semiconductor software, agile delivery, and engineering leadership.

Certifications

CSM, CSPO, Innovation Games

Scrum Alliance credentials, Innovation Games certification, and strategic innovation coursework.

Recognition

SAME Best Paper and Altera ICEE Award

Recognition spanning formal technical publication and production engineering impact in semiconductor environments.

Overview

Where 3BC helps

3BC supports teams that need rigorous engineering judgment, better delivery flow, and clearer communication around complex technical decisions.

Systems & software engineering

Consulting for semiconductor and wireless organizations, with a strong emphasis on technical rigor, product quality, and delivery discipline.

Delivery and facilitation

Practical tools for making complex technical work easier to structure, explain, and move through cross-functional teams.

Agile and leadership resources

The Agile resources add assessments, quotes, books, and papers focused on team behavior, learning, leadership, and decision-making.

Selected Work

Focused support for engineering teams

Engagements focus on practical outcomes: stronger architecture, cleaner collaboration, reusable methodology, and teams that can make progress with confidence.

Consulting 3B Consultancy

Consulting services for semiconductor and wireless teams

Strategic and hands-on support for CS and EDA software engineering, with emphasis on system-level thinking, integration quality, documentation coherence, and high-trust delivery.

  • Architecture and integration support
  • Methodology and process alignment
  • Cross-functional technical communication
Agile Team resources

Agile and leadership material organized for real teams

Assessments, papers, books, links, and quotes are organized into a practical resource library for learning, coaching, and delivery improvement.

  • Self-assessments and team diagnostics
  • Leadership and decision-making references
  • Agile papers, books, links, and quotes
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Facilitation Corporate games

Corporate games for creativity and collaboration

Structured exercises help teams explore innovation, communication, problem solving, and collaboration in a lightweight format.

  • 34 facilitation games sourced from the existing library
  • Local PDFs and supporting images preserved
  • Clean mobile-friendly browsing and search
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Publications Technical record

Papers, presentations, and credited technical contributions

Technical papers, conference material, and credited contributions show the depth behind the consulting practice and its engineering foundations.

  • White papers, conference papers, and presentations
  • Author, co-author, and public-profile context preserved
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Method

A simple operating model

3BC works best when technical complexity is made explicit, decisions are traceable, and teams have enough structure to move without creating unnecessary bureaucracy.

01

Assess

Understand the technical system, the stakeholders, and the delivery constraints.

02

Clarify

Reduce noise, simplify language, and align on a concise plan that everyone can follow.

03

Build

Execute with enough structure to be dependable and enough flexibility to stay realistic.

04

Ship

Deliver something that looks polished, feels calm, and stands up to professional scrutiny.

Resources

Curated resources for technical and agile teams

Assessments, papers, reading material, and facilitation tools are organized as practical resource libraries for technical and agile teams.

Agile assessments

EQ, Gallup, HSC, POSASS, PROJEFF, SOB, TKI, VAK, and the 7 Habits self-assessment.

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Leadership reading

Curated books, articles, and quotes centered on decision-making, teams, behavior, and execution.

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Technical papers

PDF papers on endianness, IP-XACT, collaboration, and systems thinking.

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Publications

Bertrand Blanc's authored and credited technical record, backed by a dedicated XML source.

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Facilitation tools

Exercises and facilitation formats that help teams explore ideas, decisions, and collaboration.

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Corporate games

Innovation and collaboration games gathered into a dedicated facilitation library.

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The strongest ideas are easiest to use when they are presented with restraint, structure, and room to breathe.

Contact

Reach the consultancy

Public contact details for the consultancy.

US

Cell: +1 (408) 348-7966

General contact for US inquiries

France

General contact for France inquiries

Regional support available on request

Network

LinkedIn profile

Ireland and worldwide support contacts are part of the broader 3BC network.

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