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Beauty and the Beast, Part 2: The Beauty

Where are you on The Beauty? What are you doing about it?

Paul DaoustDecember 13, 2020

Deming versus Drucker

Management Titans Clash Like Rivals in Ford versus Ferrari

Are you Team Drucker-Ferrari or Deming-Ford? For operationally excellent business results, there is one clear choice.

Paul DaoustDecember 7, 2020

Beauty and the Beast, Part 1: The Beast

The Shapes of Things to Come

Paul DaoustNovember 28, 2020

Delete Yourself

The dirty secret behind sustainably reducing maintenance costs.

Paul DaoustOctober 13, 2020

Digital Transformation with One Hand Tied Behind Your Back and Your Pocket Picked

Achieving Digital Transformation Success in Asset-Intensive Organizations

Digital Transformations with One Hand Tied Behind Your Back and Your Pocket Picked

Paul DaoustSeptember 8, 2020operationalexcellence, assetmanagement, digitaltransformation

Waves: Crash or Rise

Waves: Crash or Ride

How reactive or proactive is your organization in its operational decision-making?

Paul DaoustJuly 13, 2020

Value Leakage

Value Leakage Video

Wage war on mediocrity. Stop value leakage. Set your bar higher.

Marketing, VideoDanielle HammondApril 6, 2020operationalexcellence, assetmanagement, mediocrity

And Now for Something Completely Different

How will your organization emerge from its post-pandemic cocoon? Still as a caterpillar? Or renewed as a butterfly? Let’s take this opportunity to get unstuck together.

Paul DaoustMarch 30, 2020

Probability Management

What are the possible applications of aggregating uncertainty or risk in our asset intensive businesses?

Danielle HammondJanuary 26, 2020

Competency Management

What are the possible applications of aggregating uncertainty or risk in our asset intensive businesses?

Danielle HammondJanuary 2, 2020

Financial Stakeholders & Value

Are our financial stakeholders a drag on value? Are they an anchor causing regression to the mean? This hypothesis is worth discussing.

Danielle HammondDecember 20, 2019

Business Processes | TL;DR

Why are our business processes TL;DR? Many business processes are overdone. We can't help ourselves.

Danielle HammondDecember 12, 2019

Improve Asset Investment Planning to Avoid Value Leakage

Research suggests the difference between best practice and what most organizations have is somewhere between 8–20% in value.

Danielle HammondJuly 19, 2019

Improve Your Asset Investment Planning to Avoid Value Leakage

Would you, could you change your asset investment planning practice if it meant recapturing 8-20% of your sustaining capital portfolio value leaked by mediocre practices?

Do the Right Thing

Culture is that imaginary constant force like gravity that guides the organization to act either positively or negatively based on past customs and practices.

Danielle HammondJuly 16, 2019

My Leadership Notebook

Part of my business plan is to get operational leaders to want to improve their competencies so they can more effectively lead their organizations in a journey towards operational excellence.

Danielle HammondMay 20, 2019

What is Leadership?

Many years ago I had a manager who took an interest in me. This manager wanted me to develop a proper career plan which was new to me.

Danielle HammondMay 17, 2019

What if No One Follows?

I have a clear vision of what an operationally excellent organization looks and feels like.

Danielle HammondMay 16, 2019

Loosening Your Grip on Bobby Orr

The stories that touch our humanity always seem to hit home. I never knew the man, but I miss him nonetheless.

Danielle HammondOctober 22, 2018

Show Me Your Business!

You are an operational leader of an asset intensive organization and a stakeholder asks you to “show me your business” without any further context. What would you say?

Danielle HammondFebruary 7, 2018