Proudfoot has a long history of working with top global mining companies on some of the most interesting and challenging developments in the world. We’ve learned a few things in our 73 years of putting our boots on the ground, including how to quickly and thoroughly assess complex operations and provide specific, measurable, actionable solutions. Jon Wylie, President of Global Natural Resources at Proudfoot, and Paul Batten, Vice President of Operations, discuss our work in this brief engaging video.
What if you could develop an ambitious new project safely, on time and on budget? With Proudfoot, you can. Jon Wylie, President of Global Natural Resources at Proudfoot, and Paul Batten, Vice President of Operations, discuss the three key priorities that create an aligned, sustainable, safe operations environment.
Jon Wylie, President of Global Natural Resources at Proudfoot, and Paul Batten, Vice President of Operations, discuss keeping risk out of projects by having a plan, and working the plan. When safety improves, productivity improves as well. Find out more in this brief, informative video.
Jon Wylie, President of Global Natural Resources at Proudfoot, and Paul Batten, Vice President of Operations, discuss Proudfoot’s unique “boots on the ground” approach, which allows us to become intimately familiar with our clients’ operations at every level, from the C-suite to the front lines, and how that approach equips us to better serve our clients. Learn more in this brief informative video:
Jon Wylie, President of Global Natural Resources at Proudfoot, and Paul Batten, Vice President of Operations, discuss how Proudfoot applies over seven decades of expertise to create innovative, effective solutions for our clients. How did the manufacturing sector inspire a custom product for a mining client? Learn more in this brief informative video:
Jon Wylie, President of Global Natural Resources at Proudfoot, and Paul Batten, Vice President of Operations, discuss social license to operate and sustainability in this brief informative video. Are you prepared for the future of mining?
Jon Wylie, President of Global Natural Resources at Proudfoot, and Paul Batten, Vice President of Operations, discuss how to effectively and safely accelerate growth in large scale capital projects. Do you have organization-wide alignment? Are your people leading at all levels? Is your leadership approach instructive? Learn how to effectively accelerate growth in these informative videos.
As businesses get smarter and operations more efficient, we’ve seen many companies install a wide variety of business intelligence (BI) tools, all meant to improve systemwide performance management.
It's a great trend, and at many of our clients, these tools and techniques are yielding great results. But as teams adjust to these smarter ways of working, senior management often becomes over-reliant on their tools, leading to a self-perpetuating system that works only for the sake of providing insights to senior managers. Insight is important, of course, but helping the people who turn the wrenches achieve their targeted results is always the ultimate goal.
Dennis Santare: Good evening everyone, I'm here with Jonathan Robinson, Proudfoot's new V.P. of Operations for MRO. He Joins us with an extensive background in aerospace and defense and in MRO consulting. I wanted to get to Jonathan's thoughts about joining the firm and some of the trends he's seeing out there in the market and what he thinks he could bring to bear for us. We're extremely excited to have him! We've chased him for a long time, and we're beyond excited that he accepted his offer to join us in this MRO journey. Without further ado, Mr. Jonathan Robertson -- hi Jonathan, how are you?
Dennis Santare (MD, MRO Americas): Hello everyone. I’m talking with St. John Cameron, our MD from Asia who recently, with his team, completed a project for a major aircraft aerospace MRO in Asia. We learned a lot, the client gained a lot, and we wanted to take some time to share that with you. Welcome St John, it's great to have you.
We enabled a leading aircraft maintenance company to take on 10 percent more work with no extra resources. And no safety or quality compromises.
Dennis Santare (MD, US MRO): This is an interview with Michael Howard who is joining Proudfoot as an executive vice president in the MRO practice. Mike, welcome to the firm!
McKinsey’s 2018 article, “Unlocking Success in Digital Transformations” paints a bleak picture for the success of digital transformation. They indicated that, while more traditional transformations have shown a success rate of less than 30%, digital transformations also appear to be difficult. Only 23% of respondents indicated that their organization’s digital transformation has successfully improved performance. And only 16% of these same respondents indicated these changes were also sustainable.
I know what you are thinking, that title reminds you of Steven Covey’s Book “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People," and yes, that is the inspiration for my thoughts on successful managers.
As the 6-month mark approaches for my time leading the MRO Americas practice at Proudfoot, I wanted to follow up on my previous post outlining some of the key takeaways I’ve gotten from moving out of the aviation industry and back into the consulting world. As a former US Marine Aviator, and with 10 years’ experience at leading aviation MROs, seeing all of the advancements from other maintenance-heavy industries has given me new insights that I’ve been able to share with our Proudfoot clients.
Digital Transformation is everywhere, splashed across websites and publications, in all industries around the world. This single term, however, has a vast range of meanings. There is no one size fits all approach to Digital Transformation. Each company starts from a different place. Each company has unique capabilities and challenges. Each senior executive must tailor the company’s approach to Digital Transformation to fit their own unique situation.
April 15th, an inauspicious day for many, was a great one for me. After 10+ years in the US Marine Corps followed by eight years in the aviation MRO industry, I was given the opportunity to lead Proudfoot’s MRO Practice. I arrived viewing maintenance strategy from 30,000 feet and at 500 knots, and I was certain that I would be bringing “best practice” from the aircraft industry to spread across its “less developed” brethren.
Market pressures, new opportunities and organizational drift have compelled you and your leadership team to transform the company. You have laid the groundwork – clarified strategy, identified differentiating capabilities and assessed gaps. Yet you know, both from studies and in your gut, that most transformation efforts fall far short of expectations. For most firms much of their investment in transformation proves wasted.
