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Managers Need To Learn Language of Finance

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Part 1 of 3 Sometimes, we fool ourselves into thinking a bad deal is actually a bargain. My neighbors built their home in 2008 at the beginning of...

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Understanding Key Financial Management Terms

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Part 2 of 3 Many happy returns Two key concepts are crucial to understand for managers starting the process of making a financial case for a project...

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Making the Financial Case for Projects

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Part 3 of 3 When formally and professionally presenting the proposal, managers need to include an executive summary of the overall spending, adding...

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Reliability - What Fails and What Do We Do About It?

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Asset intensive companies have been aiming to increase the reliability of their operations to improve financial performance through effective Asset...

Survival Secrets: 5 Work Management Lifelines You're Missing

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Watch the Webinar Join us for a brisk discussion of the key elements that may be causing your work management performance to be lower than expected...

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Removing Bad Habits

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Most professionals have the good fortune of working for really fantastic leaders, but also the misfortune of working with a few ineffective leaders....

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The Impossible Is Possible: 30,000 Assets in 90 Days - PMO Success

Doug Robey | CMRP, CRL:

In today’s competitive industrial landscape, companies that focus only on design and operations risk being left behind. Modern businesses need...

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Maximizing Maintenance: Assessing Non-Value Added Activities

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Part 1 of 2 Have you ever had a discussion with your significant other about non-value-added activities? For instance, why rake leaves when the wind...

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Reassessing Preventive Maintenance Responsibilities Produces Savings

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Part 2 of 2 The reallocation of responsibilities, the deletion of non-value-added PMs, the extended PM intervals, the deletion of duplicate PMs, and...

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Costs, Benefits and Projecting Project Payback

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I renewed my subscription to Consumer Reports last month. I don’t buy anything of value without referencing Consumer Reports and two or three other...

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Leadership Learned the Hard Way

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I have learned a few lessons about leadership over my 30-plus years, starting at the early age of 19. I put on my first tool belt as an electrician’s...

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A Global Problem – The Skilled Labor Deficit

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As I travel in the Middle East, I am becoming more acutely aware of a common problem we all share: the lack of skilled labor throughout our...

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Lessons in Leadership: Putting People First

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Over the years, I've written numerous columns addressing the major day-to-day challenges facing maintenance and engineering managers, but I've never...