This week, major manufacturers are finding themselves out of stock on crucial production materials due to the coronavirus. Not only is there pressure for them to offset the immediate financial impact, there’s also urgency to show steps are being taken to protect their supply chains from future trade disruptions.
Business development is difficult enough even under the most ideal circumstances. But when systems and process issues are hindering your sales team just in performing the basic functions of their job, it’s almost impossible to be successful. And the question on everyone’s mind is: “How much better could our results be if only we could solve the operational barriers holding us back?”
What if you could deliver critical path items for your billion-dollar capital project, on time and on budget – with no lost time and no safety incidents?
Proudfoot designs, implements, and accelerates operational and digital transformation through people. Known for our hands-on approach, industry experience, and resolve, Proudfoot delivers an agile workforce, improves performance, expands profitability, and propels top-line growth for our clients.
Implementing a continuous improvement program is an important step toward increasing productivity. Having your plant manager and executives look at data from your processes hourly gives you greater visibility of performance issues across your operation. This added insight is valuable, but is your team properly interpreting the data in order to know the right course of action for a given problem?
More than ever, businesses today operate through a complex, interconnected system of handoffs. Often what looks like underperformance in one department is in fact a symptom of underlying misalignment between several business units, each acting on competing priorities.
Across the rail industry, shortages in skilled labor and gaps in knowledge management are beginning to affect operations, meaning organizations across the sector are left to navigate structural challenges with respect to safety, operations, morale, and profits. How can you combat these industry-wide trends, improve throughput, and build a culture of efficiency and continuous improvement without adding any resources? It all starts with your people, the front-line workers, supervisors, and folks on the ground where the work gets done.
Over the last decade, the aviation industry has experienced unprecedented growth, leading to major shifts and changes in the way the market has functioned and will function going forward. Since the end of the downturn almost a decade ago, Revenue Passenger Kilometers (RPKs), a common measure of airline performance, has averaged year-on-year growth of over 6% (source: IATA). This growth has been a boon for airlines and is indicative of the overall strength of the global economy. However, with growth comes challenges. One of the most pressing of these challenges for airlines, and adjacent maintenance organizations, is the ongoing struggle to meet labor requirements.
When companies prioritize safe, healthy operations, they enable their people to bring their best to work.
Last year, Proudfoot worked with five of the top mining construction companies worldwide. Jon Wylie, President of Global Natural Resources at Proudfoot, and Paul Batten, Vice President of Operations, share insight into the processes that lead to successful contractor management – from contract to performance measurement systems to project completion -- on large-scale, complex projects in this brief informative video.
What if you could make significant headway on your most pressing goals, delivering tomorrow’s results, today? With Proudfoot, you can. Jon Wylie, President of Global Natural Resources at Proudfoot, and Paul Batten, Vice President of Operations, discuss the benefits and flexibility of both short- and long-term engagements, including a project that started as a 6-month engagement and expanded to a 2-year engagement, ultimately bringing in over $184 million in annualized benefits for the client. At Proudfoot, we take pride in providing measurable financial benefits to our clients.
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.
