Dear Members,

We have been asked to share the following message with you which appears to be an innovative way of looking at the Project Controls issue from a technology-driven perspective with three companies teaming to provide an alternative and integrated solution.  We will be seeing what is being said at one of the events and hope to meet some of you too.

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Technology Innovations for Project Controls

The future of Cost, Schedule and Executive Communication!

The Business Problem

In a fiercely competitive environment, companies in asset-intensive industries need to find ways to ensure their investments are driving enterprise value, reducing costs and improving operational efficiency. They need to invest heavily in order to maintain operations and continue to grow their business, yet they are faced with an uncertain economic situation.

In such circumstances investment projects can fail – often because executive sponsorship, while strong at the start, loses momentum; or because the user community does not embrace the need for best in class processes and methods. Visibility of control information for investments, projects and portfolios is essential to ensure continued executive sponsorship, and support collaboration across teams.

Often PPM vendors offer solutions to some but not all of these needs, stressing operational effectiveness or supporting investment decision making and collaboration through visibility of data, but not providing a fully supportive and effective Project Controls environment.

A New Approach

For this reason three technology companies have joined forces to combine their core industry leading expertise and have developed an integrated and complete approach for asset intensive companies.

Safran brings operational excellence to all aspects of scheduling to manage project resources and all contractor activity, ensuring the right people are on the job at the right time, and all risks are identified, qualified, and mitigated.

EcoSys delivers operational efficiency and project controls best practices while bridging the gap between schedule and cost information. As a platform for managing both project portfolios and project performance, EcoSys helps to ensure investments are driving enterprise value and projects are delivered with better cost performance and higher margins.

Sharpcloud then provides full visibility of information and effective performance reporting – from executives to team leaders, ensuring all roles receive the right level of information presented in easily digestible formats. This keeps executives engaged and sponsorship ensured over the whole PPM journey, and improves collaboration and communication amongst project team members, motivating the user community to adopt and utilise the new control technologies.

An Innovation Workshop

We would like to invite you to join us at a workshop jointly hosted by all three companies, working closely together to show you an integrated, Best in Class project controls environment.

We can show you how our technology can help you:

• Make better investment decisions
• Provide personalised executive visibility of all appropriate information
• Build a fully informed and coordinated user community across all stakeholders
• Ensure effective project and programme delivery including
  • Optimised construction program management
  • Enhanced control of shutdowns, turnarounds, and outages
  • Identification and mitigation of risk
• And optimised resource utilisation and capacity planning. 

Why should you consider attending this Workshop? 

This workshop is critical for anybody concerned with managing projects and programmes in asset intensive industries like those in the utilities, oil, gas, chemical, steel, transportation, construction, engineering and mining Industries. It is an opportunity to test your current investment in Project Controls technologies against the very latest approach – and to see how these innovative technologies could help provide even more effective Project Controls; and see how the power of effective performance reporting can unify all stakeholders into one coordinated team from executive sponsor to project team lead. Planning, project controls, and project management professionals from all industries are encouraged to attend and collaborate with colleagues.

Agenda

• Welcome
• Asset Intensive Companies - The need for strong project controls and performance reporting
• An Innovative Approach
• A Case Study
• Technology demonstration
• Summary and conclusions

Confirming your place at the Workshop…

Please Register for one of our event dates listed on this page: CLICK HERE

Events will be held in:

• Houston, TX, USA
• Calgary, AB, Canada
• Washington, DC, USA
• Coventry, UK
• London, UK
• Aberdeen, UK
• Stavanger, Norway
• Amsterdam, The Netherlands 

This event showcases how best-in-class solutions for project management, project controls, and project visibility deliver innovative improvements in management of cost and schedule, and collaboration. Best practices shared will include integrated data sharing, integrated change management, what-if scenario planning, and sticky visual reporting available from anywhere – from desktops to mobile devices. Join us to see how the latest software innovations can help deliver more predictability and improve project outcomes.

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