Consulting Services
Combine our expert industry knowledge with yours through a facilitated process. Consulting services are delivered through on site facilitated programs, workshops and remote coaching that enable clients to own their actions and provide the support to implement improvements. We analyze client’s status then adapt our programs to deliver to your actual needs.
Strategic and Business Planning
Experience your company achieving superior growth through strategic and business planning services.
Examine your business delivery model - the value that you truly generate for your customers, and how you compete to deliver that value, taking into account an analysis of your competitors.
Create a variety of possible scenarios, performing business modeling to determine what changes you can make to embrace the alternative futures that your company faces.
Generate detailed strategic initiatives to provide you with specific, actionable items to position your company for a successful future.
Support the implementation of your strategic plans with a business planning process that facilitates your personnel to create and deliver a near term implementation plan.
Lean Manufacturing Applied to Oil and Gas Businesses
Transform your operations into a World Class performer through Lean Manufacturing in Oil and Gas methods that simultaneously improve quality, safety, while increasing productivity.
We analyze your current situation and develop a description of your future. Then we define how to cross the gap and create a plan that incorporates your input.
Lean Manufacturing is one of the most successful methods for improving manufacturing performance, regardless of industry or product. Pioneered as the Toyota Production System, and later studied in detail by MIT, lean manufacturing eliminates waste and improves throughput.
Value Delivery Systems
Develop and implement a fit for purpose, scalable description of how work flows through your business from planning to customer delivery. These systems coordinate and link activities across different parts of your organization in a coherent manner paying particular attention to managing risks and delivering a quality product or service.
You will improve schedules, reduce costs, increase functionality and improve quality of your product or service through process and organizational development.
Project Management
Bringing you the most modern methods in project management, from a consulting company that has made the effort and taken the time to properly understand the variety of methods, and how they can best be applied to your situation.
Operations Management
Operations Management is brought to you on site through an analysis of your current situation. We present a recommended map of tools and systems that corresponds to your work flow and then support implementation with facilitation and coaching of your personnel.
Marketing and Sales Management
Value Delivery Systems in Marketing and Sales provide the methodology and process to determine opportunities and transform them to into company growth.
Product Development
Product Development is enhanced through stage gated Value delivery System that incorporates early risk assessment and mitigation with real customer value generation.
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Strategic Planning Results
Weatherford jumps to the big league
In 1997, Weatherford International commissioned John de Wardt to undertake worldwide interviews of company personnel in all divisions and incorporate these results into his strategy development program. A six day workshop that included 110 participants developed many initiatives designed to reach the challenge made by the CEO - double revenues profitable with in 5 years. These initiatives were detailed out by teams after the workshop and summed up to show that a course could be followed to grow the company from $500 million to $ 1 billion. Simultaneously, the workshop group foresaw the significant mergers that could occur in the oil service industry that prompted Weatherford to accept a merger offer from Enterra and maintain itself in the big league.
John has continued to support Weatherford in a number of strategic planning areas relating to new growth businesses: intervention services, under balanced services and expandable services.
Lean Results
Addax Achieves 77% Drop in Project NPT
Performance was poor as non productive time in the operation was over 30%. John de Wardt defined a project delivery process and got it to be accepted by all in the department. This process requires the application of a number of steps at all stages of the planning and execution processes with appropriates gates that check and sanction each step before the next stage is carried out. The application of this process had a dramatic impact on performance as non productive time dropped to about 11% the following year. By the second year non productive time was about 7% - a total reduction of non-productive time of 23%.
Project Management Results
Pressure Vessel Fabrication Time Cut by 27%
A "Design to Build" process improvement program cut the manufacturing time of very large diameter heavy tar sands processing vessels by 27% with an aggressive goal to continue the reduction.
Weatherford jumps to the big league
In 1997, Weatherford International commissioned John de Wardt to undertake worldwide interviews of company personnel in all divisions and incorporate these results into his strategy development program. A six day workshop that included 110 participants developed many initiatives designed to reach the challenge made by the CEO - double revenues profitable with in 5 years. These initiatives were detailed out by teams after the workshop and summed up to show that a course could be followed to grow the company from $500 million to $ 1 billion. Simultaneously, the workshop group foresaw the significant mergers that could occur in the oil service industry that prompted Weatherford to accept a merger offer from Enterra and maintain itself in the big league. John has continued to support Weatherford in a number of strategic planning areas relating to new growth businesses: intervention services, under balanced services and expandable services.
Addax Achieves 77% Drop in Project NPT
Performance was poor as non productive time in the operation was over 30%. John de Wardt defined a project delivery process and got it to be accepted by all in the department. This process requires the application of a number of steps at all stages of the planning and execution processes with appropriates gates that check and sanction each step before the next stage is carried out. The application of this process had a dramatic impact on performance as non productive time dropped to about 11% the following year. By the second year non productive time was about 7% - a total reduction of non-productive time of 23%.
Project Management Results
Pressure Vessel Fabrication Time Cut by 27%
A "Design to Build" process improvement program cut the manufacturing time of very large diameter heavy tar sands processing vessels by 27% with an aggressive goal to continue the reduction.
Pressure Vessel Fabrication Time Cut by 27%
A "Design to Build" process improvement program cut the manufacturing time of very large diameter heavy tar sands processing vessels by 27% with an aggressive goal to continue the reduction.