NextGen Advanced Project Delivery
Delivered in Partnership with PTAG Inc.
Core Convictions
LOS® Global believes that the conventional project management approach itself drives unpredictable and unprofitable capital project outcomes due to systematic problems in the delivery system, not just execution shortfalls. Accordingly, a new paradigm of Project Management is required to deliver improved project performance that assembles best-in-class innovations into an advanced project delivery model, unlocking new horizons of value creation for resource intensive industries.
Capabilities
We enable substantial and lasting performance in capital projects and capital portfolios through five capabilities:
• Search: Proactively looking for new technologies, processes, and knowledge outside the immediate project scope
• Adaptive Problem Solving: Creating a culture and mechanism where teams can rapidly solve problems, adapt, and learn from unexpected events rather than adhering rigidly to initial plans
• Test and Trial: Utilizing pilot projects, prototyping, and simulations to validate innovations before full-scale implementation to mitigate risk
• Strategic Innovation: Embedding innovation to the core project strategy rather than treating it as an afterthought
• Balancing: Managing the tension between closed, controlled, and standardized methods with open approaches that bring in external ideas
Select Innovations Deployed
Integrated Project Delivery, Collaborative Contracting, and CMaR
Innovation in advanced owner and contractor work structures and risk sharing that aligns collective interests to project success. Overcomes the erroneous conviction that megaproject development and delivery risk can be substantially mitigated through risk transfer or sharing with contractors
Advanced Work Packaging and Workface Planning
Innovation in work layout, planning, technology integration such that engineering, procurement, and construction work effort is better synchronized and less wasteful with an ultimate focus on constraint free work release through Field Work Installation Packages (FWIPs). Overcomes the low technology penetration, spatial constraints, and constrained work package release inherent to conventional project management.
Project Production Management
Innovation in applying foundational principles of industrial engineering and operations research to construction project production workflows and throughput optimization. Ensures that production workflows are optimized through production system redesign, process step productivity enhancement, cycle time reduction, and control of unfavorable variability. Overcomes the non-existence of a real production plan and enables the application of Factory Physics to Construction projects.
Last Planner System of Production Control
Innovation in the field applying time-proven principles of pull planning and reliable promising to manage leading indicators of project productivity. Focuses on windshield metrics for production control instead of rearview mirror metrics that are outcomes, which is the traditional pitfall of traditional project control systems. Overcomes the rigidity of top-down planning and aligns execution risks with those best able to manage it – with the workers in the field.
Technology Enabled Stochastic Risk Management
Innovation in using quantitative techniques for next generation project risk and contingency management. Enables practical realization of megaproject delivery within the accuracy interval of the sanction estimate and the management of contingency and owners reserves consistent with the standards of the Association for Advancement of Cost Engineering International. Overcomes conceptual errors that often exist in owner teams with respect to estimates, estimate accuracy, and using technology to manage and mitigate risk.
Construction Industry Institute Best Practices
Fluent in supporting and extending the practical application of CII best practices in the field spanning multiple research areas. Eager to support the practical deployment of emerging innovations like CII GPT and PrairieDog. Overcomes the barrier of select CII research being limited in practice in the field and merely the subject of study groups.
WHY THIS MATTERS
Projects using APD offer the promise of predictably and profitably delivering within the parameters of the sanction business case, substantially overcoming the much cited and seldom improved >80% failure rate of Industrial Megaprojects on one or more dimensions of project success.
