A selection of our performance improvement projects
Significantly increased asset effectiveness for a large European Refinery
| ► | Europe’s largest Refinery struggled with the effectiveness of their assets. |
| ► | Initially we helped to identify root causes and to identify an implementation plan. |
| ► | Then we helped for half a year to roll-out the implementation plan and to drive Refinery improvement teams. |
| ► | The work included technical and organizational improvements, incl coaching of leadership team. |
Benefit – client phoned a year later and said that the asset effectiveness increased to best-in-class-levels. Great achievement!
Case for a significantly improved strategic planning process
| ► | E&P division of Customer struggled with their strategic planning process. |
| ► | Business planning cycles took so long that information was not useful. |
| ► | We helped to move towards an evergreen planning process with structured quarterly strategy sessions. |
Benefit – new way of working is also implemented in other parts of Customer’s Business.
Improvement program for a large refinery in Eastern Europe
| ► | Polish refinery struggled with performance. |
| ► | We helped to define a program to overcome the challenges. |
| ► | Due to an IPO, Refinery also wanted to invest in a new upstream division, which we helped to set-up. |
Benefit – a robust plan for growth.
Company wide reorganization program
| ► | Client struggled with cash-flow issues and decided to drastically cut cost. |
| ► | One of the identified savings opportunities was to reduce OPEX. |
| ► | Initially we helped to design the new organization and to help shape the top-down implementation approach. |
| ► | We helped to set reduction targets, designed the organizational mapping approach (from old to new) and managed the overall Transition. |
| ► | We helped to define new tools for such projects, which will be used in the future again. |
Benefit – Customer reduced OPEX by $1 billion and asked us to mange new programmes.
Other engagements
| ► | Strategy formulation and business process redesign for a telecom company. |
| ► | Cost reduction program for a company in the process industry. |
| ► | Business process redesign for an insurance company. |
| ► | New approach for Functional cost reporting. |
| ► | Improvement program for a large refinery in Eastern Europe. |
| ► | Asset effectiveness program for production company: determination of equipment productivity and identification of improvements. |
| ► | Process excellence program for a packaging company to identify efficiency improvements in the overhead departments. |
