Many industrial project owners are somewhat at a loss to properly manage their capital projects, in particular when they are few and far apart.
Still, successful capital projects are fundamental to the short-term financial health of the industrial organisation and its long-term competitiveness.
This guide has been written as a practical handbook including examples, useful rules of thumb and effective real-life problems and solutions. Our aim is to address in a simple manner, from the owner perspective, the entire project lifecycle from project definition to implementation, with a specific focus on the latter phase.
This guide is unique as it focuses on the perspective of the owner executive and project implementation real-life problems. It is founded on our experience across many industries, as well as available academic and business literature.
About the Author :
Jeremie Averous is the founding Senior Managing Partner of Project Value Delivery, a global consultancy empowering organizations to be reliably successful in executing Large, Complex Industrial Projects. As executive advisor to project-driven companies and owners, project practitioner, trainer, certified coach, he likes to describe himself as a K.E.E.N, a Knowledge Enhancing Exchanging Networker. By sharing in his books, trainings and consulting interventions many years of experience in Large, Complex Projects throughout several industries, he aims to reduce drastically the wastage and frustration created by unsuccessful projects.
Review :
Jeremie Averous' guide addresses all these issues and a few more. He does so with a great deal of clarity, common sense and humility, backed by proven experience in the field, which does not start from great theories but from the observation of facts. It covers from special cases to global statistics, from successes but also, no less interesting, to failures which are unfortunately still very frequent. Quite a piece of advice to be put in everyone's hands! - Bruno Bensasson, Chairman and CEO of EDF Renewable
The salutary objective of this book is to develop an understanding of the pitfalls of industrial projects for project owners. I hope that it will find an attentive audience and that it will indeed help to increase the performance of projects. - Yannick d'Escatha, Chairman of the Board, AREVA SA and Former Chairman and CEO, French Space Agency (CNES)
