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In the Oil & Gas sector (Upstream, Midstream, and Downstream refining and petrochemicals) asset owners, EPCs and technology solution providers are confronted with reinventing the core of capital projects delivery, so that certainty of project outcomes and asset revenue goals are realized during asset life.
Those who embrace systemic changes in project delivery organization culture, strategy, leadership, work processes and tools will set themselves apart from their competitors. They will be driven by accurate data throughout the project life cycle that meets the needs of the operating asset.
Our focus is on the basic fundamentals that have the greatest impact on project success. We use proven processes and a toolkit to diagnosis, design and implement sustainable solutions to a business, project, capital team and asset operations.
Endeavor bring tools, methodology and expertise to enable its clients to integrate people, processes and tools. Our project advisors each have more than 30 years of direct experience in project development and execution and a deep understanding of the management of change.
Endeavor Management has an experienced Project Effectiveness team with a dual focus on the “hard” and “soft” aspects – structure (process/technical) and people (leadership and teamwork) elements. This can be implemented side-by-side with organizations and teams such as the asset owner, stakeholders, and supporting service and contractor groups. The approach is grounded in the premise of effectively delivering results through a focus on simplification and essentialism.
The approach considers 10 essential areas of focus categorized in 3 groups: Capability, People and Delivering to Goals.
Endeavor Management collaborates with the client to define the objectives and scope of specific target improvements in three focus areas: Project Capability, People, and Delivering to Goals.
Endeavor Management colleagues have:
You get only the experience of those that have been there and done that. The Endeavor Management Capital Project Effectiveness Team members are practitioners each with over 30 years of direct experience in a project driven organization and environment in the Oil and Gas and Petrochemical industries. We can relate and empathize with your project and organization environments.
Strategic Imperative for Digital Transformation
Radical changes to megaproject delivery will bring first adopters a distinct competitive edge, while writing the epitaph of those who stay stuck in legacy ineffective practices. Whether you are an operating asset owner or an EPC, you are confronted with reinventing the core of your capital projects delivery through digital solutions. Such strategic transformation requires holistic change that focuses not only on installation of a new software application, but also on people and work processes to achieve a sustained, culturally intrinsic result from new technology. Learn more about how Endeavor Management consultants bring a unique combination of vast capital project execution and strategic change experience.
Integration: EPC Contractors and Software / Technology Providers
Capital project owners, engineering, procurement, and construction contractors and supporting service organizations are searching for means to dramatically reduce the cost of capital projects. Owners/ Operators are driving change through contracting strategy, contract language, contract deliverables and performance metrics. In response, EPC companies are striving to attain productivity improvements by utilizing plant design, material management, and construction software and technology platforms. Learn more about our Integration offering.
Alignment Construction Driven Planning and Work Packaging
Capital project owners and supporting EPC contractors and software / service providers are coalescing on construction driven engineering as a means to dramatically reduce the cost of capital projects. Supported by IPA, CII’s Advanced Work Packaging research and Fiatech’s Productivity Improvement efforts. Owners are engaging with EPCs, plant design and construction software providers, and materials management solution providers to revolutionize capital effectiveness by moving from a document-centered, deliverable-based process to a data-centric, end user process. Learn more about our Alignment Construction Driven Planning and Work Packaging.
Assurance Review
Endeavor Management collaborates with the client to define the objectives and scope of an Assurance Review in three focus groups: Project Capability, People and Delivering to Goals. The review may target a function or organization supporting project development and delivery, a singular project that may be in any phase of delivery, a specific functional element (reservoir, drilling, wells, facilities, operations) of a project(s), or a unique issue.
Endeavor Management’s advisors bring objectivity, focus on essentials and constructive, candid dialog that result in clear, actionable solutions. A core element of our Assurance Review methodology is individual and small group interviews using precise, investigative probes from our proprietary questionnaire database that surface clarity, consistency, and alignment to reveal strengths and opportunities for improvement in capital effectiveness. Learn more about Endeavor’s proprietary Assurance Review Process offering.
Project Leadership Excellence
Project Leadership Team alignment to shared objectives, execution strategy and plans and clear roles and responsibilities is a key determinant of project success. Leaders sometimes fail to recognize that they CREATE or CAUSE the environment or culture in which the project team operates – whether highly functional, mediocre or highly dysfunctional. Often the project team mirrors the behaviors of the leadership team.
The project team depends on the leadership to manage key stakeholder relationships, both internal and external to the project; to establish priorities; to identify and mitigate risk; to establish effective interface management across internal and external parties; to effectively deploy management of change and to make timely decisions based on accurate and complete information.
Endeavor Management can position and strengthen a project leadership team to create a culture of commitment and empowerment. Early engagement during FEED in situ and in workshops, when the core team is being established, have the greatest impact.
High Performing Project Teams
Most project teams are comprised of engineers who are not skilled in key non-technical competencies required to effectively work with others, such as communication, effective meetings, active listening, conflict resolution, giving and receiving feedback and effective decision-making.
While Endeavor Management can provide basic training in these team skill areas, such training is only effective when mechanisms for peer-to-peer and leader coaching are established to reinforce the desired behavioral changes.
Risk Awareness & Mitigation
Due to technology, markets, processes, organizations and other factors, companies are passing a complexity threshold. As complexity grows exponentially, so does risk. Endeavor Management’s risk experts bring processes and experience to identify non-technical risks, such as market, economics, social performance, commercial and political risk, which are often overlooked as project teams focus on technical risks.
Business Opportunity Framing / Production Promise
Endeavor Management provides expertise to its clients from perspectives of business leaders, project execution advisors and operations excellence advisors to accomplish the following.
Preserving and delivering the project economics that is used to justify the project is essential. Key elements of this are assuring production commitments are realistic and achievable, as well as rigorous vetting and approval of changes that impact these commitments.
A scalable activity undertaken at an early stage of its lifecycle, Opportunity Framing is a structured approach to create alignment and clarity between decision executives, key stakeholders and the project team engaged in early concept scope development as to the actual purpose and scope of the opportunity. A key element of this a common understanding of the value drivers to the business; critical success factors and risks.
Deliverables from opportunity framing are a decision-based plan or roadmap for progressing the development of the opportunity, including milestones, key deliverables and resource requirements; a frame for what is in scope and what is out of scope; a stakeholder engagement plan; a risk management plan and an opportunity assurance plan.
Reframing can be necessary at different stages of opportunity’s life based on changed market conditions or the external environment.
Within Opportunity Framing is a key role for Operations, maintenance and reliability. This role is to document the data and assumptions that form the basis for the production promise and to develop a production assurance strategy that encompasses Key Operating Modes; Operation Cycle Conditions; Reliability and Availability Modeling; commissioning and startup systems and sequencing; and finally, production ramp up.
Capital Management Process, Project Work Process Development and Best Practices for Project Execution
Endeavor Management Capital Project Advisors can create a fit-for-purpose Project Management System, or any element thereof, as described herein.
A Project Management System (PMS) has three distinct components:
Project Critiques and Capture of Lessons Learned
Endeavor Management Project Advisors provide methodology and facilitation of Project Critique Workshops typically conducted at the end of FEED and at the end of project construction. We use a structured look-back process designed to identify, capture, and share learnings based on a execution versus plan. This process enables multi-disciplinary participants directly involved in the work to discover for themselves what happened, why it happened, and how to sustain strengths and improve on weaknesses.
Lessons take the form of actions tied to a work process, procedure, or practice that are standalone (of value in any context) and are transferable so as to have meaning to an individual not involved in the project.
Alignment: Construction Driven Planning and Work Packaging
Capital project owners and supporting EPC contractors and software / service providers are coalescing on construction-‐driven engineering as a means to dramatically reduce the cost of capital projects. Supported by IPA, CII’s Advanced Work Packaging research and Fiatech’s Productivity Improvement efforts, Owners are engaging with EPCs, plant design and construction software providers, and materials management solution providers to revolutionize capital effectiveness by moving from a document-‐centered, deliverable-‐based process to a data-‐centric, end user process. Learn more about our Alignment offering here.
Rescue of Projects in Distress
The cost-influence curve holds fast. Early, effective assurance and identification of key decisions can mitigate cost and schedule overruns. Once in detail engineering and construction, it is difficult, but not impossible, to recover from a runaway train. Fewer options remain on the table, emotions run high, finger-pointing and blame is prevalent. In such circumstances, an impartial and objective third-party perspective is invaluable, if only to provide triage and hold the course. Learn more about our Rescue of Projects in Distress offering here.
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