Consulting Services
Consulting services are delivered through on site facilitated programs, workshops and off site coaching that enable our clients to own the actions and knowledge to implement the agreed improvements. We analyze our client's status then develop ways to adapt our programs to deliver to your actual needs.
Strategic Planning
Watch your company experience superior growth through strategic planning services.
We examine your business delivery model - the value that you truly generate for your customers, and how you compete to deliver that value, taking into account an analysis of your competitors.
We create a variety of possible scenarios, performing business modeling to determine what changes you can make to embrace the alternative futures that your company faces.
And finally, we provide detailed strategic initiatives to provide you with specific, actionable items to position your company for a successful future.
Lean Manufacturing
Transform your manufacturing facilities into a World Class performer through Lean Manufacturing methods that improve quality, safety, while increasing productivity.
We analyze your current situation and develop a description of your future. Then we define how to cross the gap and create a plan that incorporates your input.
Lean Manufacturing is one of the most successful methods for improving manufacturing performance, regardless of industry or product. Pioneered as the Toyota Production System, and later studied in detail by MIT, lean manufacturing eliminates waste and improves throughput.
Value Delivery Systems
Develop and implement a fit for purpose, scalable description of how work flows through your business from planning to customer delivery. These systems coordinate and link activities across different parts of your organization in a coherent manner paying particular attention to managing risks and delivering a quality product or service.
Helping you improve schedules, reduce costs, and increase functionality and quality through organizational development.
Project Management
Helping you through organizational development.
Bringing you the most modern methods in project management, from a consulting company that has made the effort and taken the time to properly understand the variety of methods, and how they can best be applied to your situation.
Operations Management
Operations Management is brought to you on site through an analysis of your current situation. We present a recommended map of tools and systems that corresponds to your work flow and then support implementation with facilitation and coaching of your personnel.
Strategic Planning Results
National Oilwell mergers are a success
John de Wardt has assisted National Oilwell on numerous occasions from 1996. These interventions have included the use of scenario planning to develop an engineering organization that was able to successfully meet the challenges of the future, the use of business modeling to align new acquisitions with the exiting organization, evaluations of project management methods for large rig projects, analysis of growth into new areas and recommendations on organization alignment to customer needs. National Oilwell's revenues have grown from $ 85 million in 1995 to over $ 1.5 billion. During this period the company has bought and successful merged many companies as well as developed new technologies for the oilfield.
Lean Results
Mad Dog GOM Well sets the bench mark.
BP Mad Dog's first Deep Water Development well (4,600 ft water depth) in its pre - SPAR drilling phase achieved a planned TD of 21,330' using Diamond's Ocean Confidence 5th generation semi submersible rig in 21 days per 10,000 ft. The team exceeded the best of best performance in all well segments, except one, in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. This S shaped well drilled through a thick salt section to faulting and a pressure regression below. BP utilized DE WARDT AND COMPANY to take them through the key process steps to achieve the organization alignment, focus on performance, plan enhancement and other attributes they were looking for.
Project Management Results
Fabrication Shop Increases Throughput 50%
A heavy engineering fabrication shop was reorganized with improved techniques that increased weld metal lay down time as well as a devoted material preparation area. The result was an immediate 50% improvement in throughput.
National Oilwell mergers are a success
John de Wardt has assisted National Oilwell on numerous occasions from 1996. These interventions have included the use of scenario planning to develop an engineering organization that was able to successfully meet the challenges of the future, the use of business modeling to align new acquisitions with the exiting organization, evaluations of project management methods for large rig projects, analysis of growth into new areas and recommendations on organization alignment to customer needs. National Oilwell's revenues have grown from $ 85 million in 1995 to over $ 1.5 billion. During this period the company has bought and successful merged many companies as well as developed new technologies for the oilfield.
Mad Dog GOM Well sets the bench mark.
BP Mad Dog's first Deep Water Development well (4,600 ft water depth) in its pre - SPAR drilling phase achieved a planned TD of 21,330' using Diamond's Ocean Confidence 5th generation semi submersible rig in 21 days per 10,000 ft. The team exceeded the best of best performance in all well segments, except one, in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. This S shaped well drilled through a thick salt section to faulting and a pressure regression below. BP utilized DE WARDT AND COMPANY to take them through the key process steps to achieve the organization alignment, focus on performance, plan enhancement and other attributes they were looking for.
Project Management Results
Fabrication Shop Increases Throughput 50%
A heavy engineering fabrication shop was reorganized with improved techniques that increased weld metal lay down time as well as a devoted material preparation area. The result was an immediate 50% improvement in throughput.
Fabrication Shop Increases Throughput 50%
A heavy engineering fabrication shop was reorganized with improved techniques that increased weld metal lay down time as well as a devoted material preparation area. The result was an immediate 50% improvement in throughput.