When I saw that CH2M Hill is the top U.S. environmental firm, according to Engineering News-Record’s Top 200 Environmental Firms list, I had to smile. Not that I was surprised in the least, but because it confirmed what I already knew about the company, given its history with the Rocky Flats Nuclear Production facility. What […]
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Out with the Old (Thinking); In with the New (Thinking)
Maybe businesses should consider adopting New Year’s Resolutions: “We will be smarter as we get leaner.” “We will consider profit levels of our customers as well as our own.” “We will work toward Win-Win strategies with our partners.” Genuine objectives, made to improve relationships and build capacity. A little too much mushy thinking, you […]
Performance-based Contracts Perform
My Contract Management magazine arrived recently with even more evidence that a vested, collaborative approach to managing difficult contracts – or solving difficult problems – results in success on a huge scale. Most of us grew up hearing about the controversies surrounding the Rocky Flats Plant near Denver, a U.S. nuclear weapons production facility that operated […]
Even Some Big Guys Need a Lesson in Vesting
When a manufacturer suffers recurring production delays due to parts shortages along its supply chain it’s a big problem. When this happens to a company like Boeing, which is trying to launch a major new product – the 787 Dreamliner – it reveals a costly and endemic problem that can verge on disaster. Randy Tinseth, […]
