Early Equipment Management (EEM)

_x005F_x000D_ When capital projects fail to deliver, it is usually not due to technical reasons but a combination of behavioral pitfalls, unclear accountabilities and gaps in design, specification, and/or project-management processes. _x005F_x000D_ Early Equipment Management (EEM): Continuous Improvement for Projects explains how well known and award winning organizations avoid these weaknesses by using: _x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ Project road maps setting out clear accountabilities for each step of the concept-to-project-delivery process; _x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ Progressive design goals for each step to assure the delivery of low life-cycle costs; _x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ Processes to codify tacit knowledge, reveal latent design weaknesses, and build high performance cross-functional team collaboration; _x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ Project governance processes that systematically raise their organizations ability to reduce time to market for new assets, products and services with higher added value and fewer resources. Hence the books title of continuous improvement for projects. _x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ The word Early in EEM refers to the principle of trapping problems as early as possible in the project process when they are cheapest to resolve. That makes EEM relevant to all projects even those that have past the design stages. To support the use of EEM at any project step, the author has designed each chapter as a standalone topic with cross references to other chapters where relevant. This book:- _x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ Explains _x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ The six EEM project delivery steps setting out the tasks and accountabilities for project teams, project managers and steering committees at each step;_x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ How to organize projects to increase project added value through the collaboration of commercial, operational and technology stakeholders_x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ The wiring up behind behaviors that contribu