Sixteen factories, sixteen ways to fix a machine
A €400 million global chemical company ran maintenance sixteen different ways, one per factory, with assets only partly tracked and a team too short-staffed to fix it. Forty systems screened, five survived. And two numbers on our own page that an eight week sprint cannot have measured.
Externally assured, and still not comparable
ContentsOverviewAssurance answers a different questionWhere the framework runs outTwelve companies, read disclosure by disclosureThe differentiation sits in the KPIs nobody made them […]
Even if every supplier delivers, it is not enough
ContentsOverviewA target that lives in somebody else businessLess than half of them measure anythingThe arithmetic that decided the answerThe suppliers that matter […]
Twenty one tools, and no recommendation
ContentsOverviewA manual process with compliance attachedTwenty one down to fiveThe functionality is nearly identical, which is the findingWhy no winner was namedDigital […]
Water came first, biodiversity came last
ContentsOverviewFour groups, deliberately, and the ones left outWhat the workforce chose when asked to pick threeWhere the four groups pulled apartWhat both […]
Wait until the seventh
ContentsOverviewAsking the users rather than the vendorThe corporate tool is not where the work happensWhat people are doing in spreadsheets that they […]
Four reports, forty per cent of the hours
ContentsOverviewCounting the thing nobody had countedSize does not predict reporting load, and the gap is enormousWhere the time actually goes, and where […]
The biggest research budget was not the most inventive
ContentsOverviewCounting what competitors publish, not what they doThe two themes that behave in opposite waysResearch spend does not predict inventionWhat the leaders […]
Seventy six plants, seven of them running
ContentsOverviewThe pipeline is not the marketDemand was modelled, and the assumptions are the modelWhat it costs to build oneThe near term pull […]
The answer was that rain did not matter
ContentsOverviewThree hypotheses, stated before the analysisSpeed did not moveCounts moved on some days and not because of rainWhy the data could not […]
The market data did not exist, so we built it
ContentsOverviewThere was no data, and that is a findingA small market, concentrated in one countryWhy the client is not in the other […]
The acquisition came with a trading book
ContentsOverviewA parent that cannot forecast its own consolidated incomeWhat the data actually supportedOil moves the wrong way, which is the interesting partThe […]