My recently graduated niece informed me that she, and many of her Oxford classmates, chose to go to work for a startup over more a more established company. The reasons that she, and much of her cohort, chose to work with iffy companies, while more established ones offered far more consistency and stability and opportunities … Continue reading New Startups vs Old startups
Month: November 2017
A plant turnaround (TAR, shutdown, outage, STO, etc) is an intense, geographically concentrated, coming together of thousands of people, working for hundreds of companies and organizations to efficiently accomplish the execution objective: safely. In addition, environmental care and consideration, quality results, timely scheduled completion and budgetary cost constraints are expected. Oh, and the execution phase … Continue reading The Turnaround (TAR) Cycle
To help us get a decent estimate of costs associated with lost productivity, due to use of company systems that are not optimally integrated, we'll need to collect certain data. This can be done easily in our Evaluate app, that is available online, in a secure, dedicated URL on request. The data items listed can … Continue reading Obtaining the Cost of Lost Productivity
Export Cost Data to Excel Export Billing Data to Excel These are menu options requested by users so that they can see, and manipulate, pivot, group, analyze their data in Excel. Excel has been a tool for just these types of analyses for years, so it's not surprising that Excel exponents would feel more comfortable … Continue reading The Long and Winding Road to a New Normal