Sandy Vasser, ExxonMobil's Facilities Group I&E manager, and Don Allen, from ABB, presented a tutorial on how to do project management flaw-lessly. By that they mean, with fewer flaws... Vasser is perhaps one of the world's few experts on the management of megaprojects. His projects run to over $2 Billion (yes, that's "billion with a b") each, and ExxonMobil is doing about … [Read more...] about Flawless Project Execution…
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more Mr. Toad's Wild Ride…
ABB CTO Peter Terwiesch continued his rocket slide through the future of technology today, this time taking on energy efficiency. He re-iterated his claim of yesterday that improving energy efficiency is "the other alternative energy source." Terwiesch claimed that current industrial energy efficiency is about 20%, and that improvements using immediately available technologies … [Read more...] about more Mr. Toad's Wild Ride…
Dinesh Paliwal speaks again…
Dinesh Paliwal's closing address was all about collaboration. He quoted retired ABB executive John Witherspoon as saying, "You will find all the real answers in the field." With the customers. "Collaboration," Paliwal went on, "is a powerful tool only if it is a continuous process." You need, he said: *a real hunger for information *to ask the real questoins *to broaden the … [Read more...] about Dinesh Paliwal speaks again…
from the department of "great entrances…"
ABB R&D Director Sean Keeping said, "We're going to wait another 30 seconds," as we were waiting for him to begin to talk about ABB's advances in instrumentation. Then, as if on cue, the room doors blew open and ABB instrumentation vice president of marketing Bob Hausler appeared. His timing was superb. The session dissolved in laughter. The reason I went to the … [Read more...] about from the department of "great entrances…"
from the department of "the fine art of collaboration…"
Dick Hill, of ARC Advisory Group, led a panel discussion this morning on Collaboration. You can see the abstract in a previous blog entry this morning. This panel discussion was so good I skipped the 11:00 session on wireless I had said I wanted to attend. Sorry about that if you were waiting with bated breath to hear what I think about wireless once again. The panel consisted … [Read more...] about from the department of "the fine art of collaboration…"
