Capital Projects

Capital project leadership and day-to-day management is an emerging area of study and one of the most important topics we cover here at Velocity. In our Capital Projects Archive you’ll find articles aimed at helping leaders and managers get results, whether that means adopting new technology, revisiting the org chart, or shifting your operational paradigms.

Four Steps To An Integrated Project Delivery System
Capital Project Management

Four Steps To An Integrated Project Delivery System

Leading capital project managers understand that getting things done on-time and on-budget means keeping people and teams working together from start to finish. Like the myriad gears inside a Breitling pilot’s watch, the many moving parts in your project need to be precisely aligned or the whole thing grinds to a halt. It’s not easy.

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How To Activate Your Project Standardization Protocols
Capital Project Management

How To Activate Your Project Standardization Protocols

Are you looking for technical superiority, or business superiority? When deciding which standardization efforts to sponsor, companies must give more weight to market factors than to technical factors, to improve adoption of the standards decision. That said, technical superiority needs to fit a business case, otherwise it becomes a burden.

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Attracting Millennials To Capital Project Careers
Capital Project Management

Attracting Millennials To Capital Project Careers

Millennials simply want what everybody wants: A working environment that is intuitive, collaborative and flexible. Young engineers want to learn. They want to be part of a team. They want to be valued, to contribute, and to feel a sense of satisfaction after a job well done. The catch: They want all this from day one.

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