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Observations from 30 years driving improvement in multinational energy companies — on what works, what doesn’t, and what makes the difference.
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CI Deployment Series

9 pieces

Designing CI as a system integrated with the business — delivering its priorities, managing its performance, and reaching beyond a project pipeline.

Episodes
Articles & Posts
4
JUN
2026

Training Is the Easiest Part of CI to Fund — and the Easiest to Waste

Most deployments start with a wave of it. Hundreds of people trained, two days of theory, a certificate at the end. Months later much of it has quietly faded, because the training was never anchored to anything the business had actually decided to do.
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28
MAY
2026

CI Deployment — The Two-Year Cliff

Most continuous improvement deployments look healthy in year one. Year two is when something quieter happens — and almost no one names it. On the failure mode that is set not at implementation, but at the start.
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The Strategy Beneath the Strategy

1 piece

Building and delivering strategy that connects vision, value and people.

Articles & Posts
23
JUL
2026

Every risk has an owner. The sum of them doesn’t.

Most organisations know each of their risks precisely, and their overall risk only by feel. Individually, the work is excellent. Equipment is assessed. Then someone asks a different question.
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Making Data Speak

3 pieces

Putting data, information and analysis at the heart of decision-making and performance management.

Articles & Posts
13
AUG
2026

Nothing visible breaks

A date entered wrong. A description copied from the one before it. A transaction logged five days after the event it describes. None of it feels like much — until it becomes the number your strategy rests on.
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6
AUG
2026

The year before go-live

Every ERP go-live has a date everyone remembers. Almost nobody remembers the decision made eleven months earlier — and that’s the one that determined how the next five years went.
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Management Craft

2 pieces

Management as a learnable skill: readiness to lead, know-how, and the ability to read the situation, make the call and set the standard.

Articles & Posts
16
JUL
2026

Management capability is a skill, and we are not serious about it.

Every time I see a post celebrating leadership over management, I feel it, that allergic reaction. As if one is visionary and the other is paperwork.
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11
JUN
2026

There’s a Difference Between a Supporting Function That Takes Orders and One That Takes Responsibility

The first waits for a brief, executes against it, and hopes the brief was right. The second goes upstream, confident enough to advise on the things only that function would know to raise.
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The Human Margin

4 pieces

Working with people at every organisational level is what makes good leaders — and what builds careers. Everything else in an organisation runs through them.

Articles & Posts
9
JUL
2026

Writing Something Down Doesn’t Make It Happen.

But I have spent the better part of my career walking into situations where someone, somewhere, genuinely believed it did.
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2
JUL
2026

The Quiet Ones.

Some of the best talent I have worked with was nominated to a CI project because nobody thought it mattered enough to send someone important.
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