CEO's Guide To Digital Transformation
Digital Transformation

A CEO’s Guide To EPC Digital Transformation

The IT department should be fully integrated into the mission-critical work of a capital project organization. Technology leadership should be fully aware of each project’s bottom line and should — for lack of a better word — feel the pain of delivering that project on-time and on-budget.
Achieve this by setting KPIs that are directly related to technology.

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Project Integration Should Be A Separate Line Item
Capital Project Leadership

Project Integration Should Be A Separate Line Item. Here’s Why.

The only way to ensure that integration is done well is to allocate to it a unique budget with the deliverables, objectives, KPIs and digital tools to go with it. Liberate your project managers and give them the tools and teams they need to get projects done, on-time and on-budget.

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In Capital Projects, Less Is More
Opinion

In Capital Projects, Less Is More

Every industry is somehow governed by a set of unspoken rules and assumptions defining what makes that industry different and unique; a set of ideas that are accepted as general truth by the professionals of the industry at large.

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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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NASA Chief Knowledge Architect David Meza on Implementing Knowledge Management
Digital Transformation

NASA Chief Knowledge Architect David Meza on Implementing Knowledge Management

Meza used knowledge informatics – including sentiment analysis, co-word analysis and time series analysis – to make a persuasive outcome-based argument in favor of Knowledge Architecture and Knowledge Management. The benefits of enterprise search won internal converts who extolled the benefits of Knowledge Management to the rest of the organization.

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