Decommissioning
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The Momentum of Integration - A Fully Interconnected Unit
Integration within the Organization encourages your organization to be a fully-interconnected unit. Learn to bring everything together using Journey Management to move toward organizational success.
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Help your Workforce Contribute to Success
Integration within the Organization helps your workforce contribute to the organization’s success. Learn how to use a simple integration approach to provide leadership and communicate your guiding principles.
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Measuring Organizational Progress
Are we making Progress? Using the Baldrige questionnaire ( Baldrige Website ) and survey results can provide volumes of information about how well your organization is progressing in its journey toward success. The following graphs were derived from the 2011 survey on the Baldrige Board of...
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Building Organizational Maturity
Integration within the Organization allows you to judge your organization and build strength. Scoring Guidelines can be used to refine processes, make the most of measures, and strive for excellence.
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Capture your Organization’s True Character
Integration within the Organization captures an organization’s true character. Discover your organization’s character by comparing it to an ideal organization, with merit and worth.
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Understanding Purpose is Pivotal to Success
Purpose, begins with the End in Mind How do you define Success? We know organizational success is based on many variables. Why are some organizations more successful than others? The answer is simple. Defining the organization’s “purpose” is pivotal to its success. In recent years,...
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What measures are you taking to ensure that your business is not becoming susceptible to mediocrity via groupthink?
Groupthink is a phenomenon that occurs when a group of well-intentioned people makes irrational or non-optimal decisions spurred by the urge to conform or the belief that dissent is impossible. The problematic or premature consensus that is characteristic of groupthink may be fueled by a...
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Discover the Power of Integration!
To set the stage for this discussion on integration we need definitions [i] regarding the topic. Integration The harmonization of plans, processes, information, resource decisions, workforce capability, and capacity, actions, results, and analyses to support key organization-wide goals. Effective...
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Preparing for the Future of Offshore Oil and Gas
Are you ready for the next phase of Offshore Oil & Gas? Bruce Crager shares his views on preparing for the future of offshore oil and gas.
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The Law of Unintended Consequences - Part 3
In the last 2 weeks, the Decommissioning blog posts discussed the Law of Unintended Consequences or LOUC for short. We also observed that: There is negativity to the oilfield among those unfamiliar with the industry. The attitude of some toward older offshore installations is: They are worn out,...
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The Law of Unintended Consequences - Part 2
In last week’s Decommissioning blog post we learned about the Law of Unintended Consequences or LOUC for short. We also discussed the attitude of a decent portion of the public not familiar with the oilfield and observed that: There is negativity to the oilfield among those unfamiliar with the...
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The LAW of UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES
in Oilfield Decommissioning An unwritten law of societies familiar to most people is the Law of Unintended Consequences. Simply put, it describes the tendency of our best-laid plans to somehow go awry, ending up with results – consequences – that are completely different than the results we...