How we help
Our detailed and hands on approach enables us to identify issues, enhance interfaces and fundamentally challenge the status quo.
Who we work with:
- Project Managers
- Site Agents & Package Managers
- Quantity Surveyors
- Pre-Construction Managers
- Commercial Functions
- Design Engineers
- Senior Managers
- Blue-Collar Workforces
What we do:
- Establish true collaboration between clients and partners
- Enhance planning techniques to create joined up, meaningful programmes to control against
- Implement effective project controls, forecasting and true plan vs actual project performance visibility
- Coach managers to reduce the amount of non-value adding time in their day
- Challenge the meeting and governance structures to prevent endless unfocused meetings killing progress
- Support commercial functions to aid processing and decision making
- Review roles and responsibilities to identify non value added activities and blurred lines of responsibility
- Improve productivity through establishing the desire behaviours to enable delivery on time and to budget
What we have achieved:
- Transformed toxic client, design and delivery partner relationships to significantly enhance delivery
- Created effective and meaningful governance structures
- Enhanced CPI and SPI performance to bring forward delivery milestones
- Redefined overly complex reporting suites to enable daily focus on the right things to drive progress
- Enabled more collaborative and meaningful planning techniques to ensure there is one version of the truth
Our expertise
- Unpicking strained relationships and working both sides of the interface to resolve deep-rooted issues
- Strengthening project controls such as planning and reporting
- Coaching managers in areas such as accountability and active management
- Enhancing productivity whilst more effectively managing cost and risk
- Designing enhanced governance structures at all levels of management
- Defining and coaching out roles and responsibilities so that individuals are clear on what they should be doing
Featured results
£2.5M
Significant effect in catalysing site-wise activities per person
£8.7
Additional revenue through enhanced clams management
Keys to a successful collaborative partnership
“We are now a more informed business than we were before, that’s absolutely clear - we’re adopting the principles that we were pushing forward during the projects and are using them alongside tried and tested tools in the market for short and medium term planning.”
Peter Jones
Technical and Operational Efficiency Director
Skanska
Construction
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