Earlier this year, the highly influential economic historian Adam Tooze spoke at VISION Consulting’s Annual Leadership Forum in London offering his take on how 2023 may pan out. In a fascinating talk, he highlighted four significant areas of ra

Mobilisation 1: What is mobilisation and how can it transform your organisation?

Dec 15th, 2021 22m 37s

It used to take the giants of the pharmaceutical world at least five years to deliver a vaccine. Yet when the world was struck by COVID-19, Pfizer managed to deliver a vaccine in just eight months. Many other pharma companies achieved similarly

Lean 1: Getting to grips with Lean and Agile thinking in Construction

Nov 9th, 2021 18m 51s

As the global supply chain crisis and labour shortages continue to disrupt capital projects, many industry leaders are exploring the efficiencies offered by Lean and Agile thinking. In the first episode of a new season of VisionWorks podcasts,

Megaprojects 5: The secret sauce of improvisation

May 25th, 2021 31m 46s

In episode five of VISION Works, our expert panel continues to challenge the assumptions that undermine megaprojects.Listen in to discover what Dr Charles Spinosa intriguingly calls ‘the secret sauce of improvisation’, which he believes is esse

Megaprojects 4: Busting the myths

Apr 9th, 2021 31m 28s

There are many myths about how to manage capital projects and, in this episode, we tackle nine of them – myths such as ‘if a project goes over budget, it’s usually because the estimators got it wrong’ and ‘the keys to success are strong managem

Megaprojects 3: My life managing them

Mar 9th, 2021 39m 35s

What's it like working at the heart of a megaproject? In this episode, we explore the sometimes bruising experiences of five people who have been there – and what they’ve learnt from the mistakes and triumphs that they have witnessed or been a

Megaprojects 2: How to fix them

Feb 12th, 2021 27m 11s

After exploring why 99% of megaprojects (capital projects costing $1 billion or more) fail to deliver all their promised benefits on time and on budget, we move on to reveal the big fix. The solutions come from three people who have worked at t

Megaprojects 1: Why do 99% of them fail?

Jan 28th, 2021 27m 3s

What is a megaproject? And why do they so often fail to deliver their promised benefits on time and on budget. From the Pyramids to the Parthenon, and from Willie Brown's Transbay Terminal to Intel 'fabs' and Heathrow Terminal 5, our experts fr

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