Capital Project Leadership
People Are The Heart Of All Great Organizations
A conversation with recently retired U.S. Army Chief of Engineers Thomas Bostick.
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.
A conversation with recently retired U.S. Army Chief of Engineers Thomas Bostick.
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.
The challenges faced today by asset-intensive companies demand innovative solutions, including new approaches to standardization.
Project office costs are rising, whether the work is completed in-house or contracted out at home or overseas. In this short article, get six strategic ideas for improving productivity around project services and engineering.
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.
A spate of multi-billion-dollar merger and acquisition deals are bringing leading American infrastructure companies together at a phenomenal rate.
How can you build a solid relationship that supports high-quality work and good communication with people thousands of miles away?
Capital project managers are working with Engineering Value Centers now more than ever. How can you build a solid relationship that supports high-quality work?
In our illuminating interview, Todd Mintzer touched on eight important ideas for successful execution of work throughout the capital project lifecycle.
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.