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Using nudge techniques to influence behaviour in an engineering office

Our SPE Intelligent Energy conference paper “Using Nudge Techniques to Influence Behaviour in an Engineering Office” has now been published. Abstract below: “Nudge techniques have led to a revolution in the way organisations think about the hierarchy of choice. Small changes in the way choices are presented — nudges — can have a significant impact […]

Agilis at SPE Intelligent Energy Conference

Matt will be presenting our paper “Using ‘Nudge’ Techniques to Influence Behaviour in an Engineering Office” at the SPE Intelligent Energy Conference Technical Session 10: People Making It Work on Wednesday 7th September. We will be talking about simple low-friction techniques to get teams working better. Save

Why projects go wrong

According to the PMI only 64% of projects completed in 2014 successfully met their original goals and business intent, with 15% deemed to be total failures. Project success rate decreases with increasing size, oil and gas mega-projects are particularly unsuccessful with a 78% failure rate including: average cost overruns of 33% execution schedule slips of […]

Being more agile in oil & gas projects

Traditional defined project control mechanisms require project scope to be broken down into well understood, discrete, interdependent tasks. This is ideal for activities where there is a clear picture of the final outcome and where there is low likelihood, requirement, or desire to accommodate change. Such approaches are well suited to the later detailed engineering, […]