by James Reyes-Picknell | Dec 20, 2024 | Business Case & Finance, Education, Executive Insights, Management Insights, Reliability, UPTIME
Today’s Gremlin – Don’t sweat the small stuff, gets us into trouble by skipping details and steps, that are important, often to save time. Don’t sweat the small stuff cuts a lot of corners, and makes a lot of mistakes through that carelessness....
by James Reyes-Picknell | Dec 18, 2024 | Business Case & Finance, Education, Executive Insights, Management Insights, Reliability, UPTIME
Today’s Gremlin – Cheap Charlie, is a well intentioned but often mis-guided Gremlin. He or she can be many people and we’ve all dealt with them before. “Cheap Charlie” is someone who truly believes that not spending leads to profits. This...
by James Reyes-Picknell | Nov 25, 2024 | Executive Insights
What do you want: low cost, low risk, high performance? If you focus on only one of those, you will certainly be disappointed. For instance, a focus on low cost will increase risks and diminish performance. How does that happen? To achieve low cost, you can stop or...
by James Reyes-Picknell | Sep 10, 2024 | Executive Insights
Outside of periods of global warfare, the world is in it’s most unstable period in at least a century. Your business needs to survive and that means adapting quickly. Covid swept the globe and governments over-reacted with restrictions that have done far more...
by James Reyes-Picknell | Aug 1, 2024 | Executive Insights
A $6 billion operation, opted to ignore a 20% annual reduction in maintenance costs (about $100 million) and a 16% annual increase in revenues (about $900 million) in order to avoid spending $20m over 3 years. I don’t think the investors would be particularly...
