‘Let’s just do it…’
The client’s own team was stocked with knowledgeable and experienced people, and they also had solid project control processes. Yet they suffered from such continual…
ViewAspiring to make a decent return
A few years ago, an OEM in the bioenergy sector embarked on a program to scale up. To sell more of their specialist products they…
ViewThe perils of butterfly collecting
In our experience, few organizations are as effective at knowledge capture and transfer as they imagine. While they may, as part of their project governance…
ViewThriving in a man’s world
“I love upstream energy because it’s a very small community and very connected. Wherever you go in the world, you’ll find someone who knows someone…
ViewM&A: regaining alignment
It was winter, 2001, and my then employer had just acquired a competitor, inheriting a portfolio of ongoing projects. I, on the other hand, was…
ViewOne size does not fit all
Fuelled by the global economic meltdown, consolidation was rife among drilling contractors and a merger between Pride Offshore and ENSCO was on the cards.
ViewIs your expert ready for the cut and thrust?
Meetings between experts are intended to highlight areas of agreement regarding the questions asked of them and their considerations. The output should be a useful…
ViewRigs, ships and razorblades
The successful bidder was rumoured to be the Gillette Razor company, fuelling the myth that when old ships go to die, they come back as…
View‘We’re not in Kansas anymore’
In a recent case, one of our experts was supposed to give testimony in Houston. After much coronavirus-induced postponing, he was summoned. By this time,…
ViewLions and tigers…and shares, oh my!
This Esso ad, which ran from the late 1950s to the oil crisis in the early ’70s, implied a significant performance improvement by injecting the…
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