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4. The Elements of Project System Excellence
Pages 10-16

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... All three of these companies used to be underperformers. I'll never forget when I first benchmarked DuPont, their projects proceeded in an expensive, slow manner but things worked at 200 percent of nameplate.
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... They also view their common processes as a controllable, manageable process. When people at all three of these companies think about control of the project system, they think of it in terms of statistical process control or statistical quality control, much as they think about controlling and improving a manufacturing process.
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... Interestingly, we have seen that the relationship between frontend loading and reduction of cost has actually gotten steeper in the l990s than it was in the 1980s. It is also the way that you take time out of construction, because front-end loading is fundamentally the way that you eliminate unnecessary change.
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... Those are the projects that are very difficult to effectively pass to a contractor to simply execute according to plan. In the private sector, the part of the front-end loading process that is done worst is trying to figure out what it is that you want to do.
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... Without that cooperation, it is virtually impossible to ever be more than mediocre. Edward Merrow is the founder and president of Independent Project Analysis, Inc., a company that provides a unique project research capability for the chemical process industries.
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... In 2001, he received the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Engineering & Construction Contracting Division Award for "outstanding contributions to the industry."
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