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Introduction to Project Economics in Oil and Gas Exploration and Production (Upstream) Industry, including basic project economics method and example of calculation.
NCV 4 Project Management Hands-On Support Slide Show - Module5Future Managers
This slide show complements the Learner Guide NCV 4 Project Management Hands-On Training by Bert Eksteen, published by Future Managers. For more information visit our website www.futuremanagers.net
This presentation show how to perform project risk analysis with uncertainties defined using risk events and event chains.
For more information how to perform schedule risk analysis using RiskyProject software please visit Intaver Institute web site: http://www.intaver.com.
About Intaver Institute.
Intaver Institute Inc. develops project risk management and project risk analysis software. Intaver's flagship product is RiskyProject: project risk management software. RiskyProject integrates with Microsoft Project, Oracle Primavera, other project management software or can run standalone. RiskyProject comes in three configurations: RiskyProject Lite, RiskyProject Professional, and RiskyProject Enterprise.
Introduction to Project Economics in Oil and Gas Exploration and Production (Upstream) Industry, including basic project economics method and example of calculation.
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The global financial crisis has brought into sharper focus the long-term shift in economic power towards the developing world. Global consumer product companies are embracing this underlying trend and the mantra of reaching the next one billion customers in emerging markets.
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In developing markets people are more inclined to use public transport or walk, therefore smaller sized products and low cost basket sizes will have more appeal.
Local brands and stores should not be underestimated - shopkeepers are the gatekeepers and even the best conceived consumer strategies need their support to succeed.
Setting up shop in close proximity to where people live is a critical success factor, as is having access to a local distribution network. To give the data a human perspective we also asked respondents to take a picture on their mobile of their main grocery store, the transportation they use to get to the store and their grocery shopping.
The images provide a stark contrast in lifestyles around the world.
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Introduction
Let's get down to business! Your deliverables are:
1. A complete set of Round 1 decisions. We will show you exactly what to do.
2. A quiz., which you MUST take before you can finish the tutorial. When the quiz is
complete, a menu item called "Process" becomes available. Clicking Process advances
the tutorial to the next round (simulated year).
3. As an option, you can continue to play the Rehearsal on through Round 4.
If you understand how to perform six basic tactics, you will be able to develop and execute a
strategy for your company. The tactics are:
1. Tactic 1: How do we reposition a product?
2. Tactic 2: How do we market a product?
3. Tactic 3: How do we schedule production and manage inventory?
4. Tactic 4: How do we modify plant and equipment?
5. Tactic 5: How do we raise money and pay debt?
6. Tactic 6: How do we invent a new product?
The quiz will ask you to match each basic tactic with a set of action steps. To complete the
Rehearsal, you must get 100% on the quiz, but you can take it as many times as you need.
After you complete the quiz, you can put your decisions into competition with two computer
managed companies and advance the clock one year. You can then examine the results to see
how you did.
You might find it easier to do the Rehearsal if you use these three documents:
This Rehearsal script (this document)
The Capstone Courier (click the Reports link on the Rehearsal menu in the right panel)
The Industry Conditions report (click the Reports link on the Rehearsal menu)
Tip! The "expand/collapse" link in the frame separator will open and close this area, giving you
easier access to the Rehearsal Decision Workbook.
During the Rehearsal, you are assigned to the "Andrews" company. Do not worry if you have
been assigned to a different company. When the real simulation begins you will make decisions
for your assigned company.
Good Luck!
Rehearsal Script Page 2
Tactic 1: Repositioning a Product
Instructions
1. In the Rehearsal Decision Spreadsheet (to the right of the Expand/Collapse bar), select
R&D from the Decisions menu.
2. Changing a product's Performance and Size repositions it on the Perceptual Map. If a
product is moved outside of the Rough Cut circles, it will have 0 sales; customers will not
want that product.
3. Slightly improve Able by repositioning it to a Performance of 5.8 and a Size 14.2. Change
Able's Mean Time Before Failure (or MTBF) to 18000. Click Recalculate. On the
Perceptual Map, the magenta name is where your product will be when the project
completes. The black name is where your product is today, January 1st.
4. Reposition Acre to MTBF 13000.
5. Reposition Adam to Performance 9.0, Size 11.0, MTBF 24000.
6. Reposition Aft to Performance 10.4, Size 15.0, MTBF 26000.
7. Reposition Agape to Performance 4.7, Size 9.8.
8. Click Recalculate. These projects will help your products keep up ...
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Rapid Optimization Application Development Using Excel and SolverMichael Mina
Marketing optimization is the process of determining how to allocate marketing dollars in order to achieve specific goals (e.g., maximize profit), subject to certain constraints (e.g., a fixed marketing budget). This often takes the form of using mathematical techniques to determine who to target, through which channel, and with what message or offer.
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A Business Case Template is a structured document that outlines the rationale behind a business initiative or project. It presents a compelling argument for why a particular course of action should be pursued and highlights the anticipated outcomes. This template serves as a comprehensive guide for decision-makers by providing a clear understanding of the project's feasibility, costs, benefits, and risks.
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In the rapidly evolving landscape of technologies, XML continues to play a vital role in structuring, storing, and transporting data across diverse systems. The recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) present new methodologies for enhancing XML development workflows, introducing efficiency, automation, and intelligent capabilities. This presentation will outline the scope and perspective of utilizing AI in XML development. The potential benefits and the possible pitfalls will be highlighted, providing a balanced view of the subject.
We will explore the capabilities of AI in understanding XML markup languages and autonomously creating structured XML content. Additionally, we will examine the capacity of AI to enrich plain text with appropriate XML markup. Practical examples and methodological guidelines will be provided to elucidate how AI can be effectively prompted to interpret and generate accurate XML markup.
Further emphasis will be placed on the role of AI in developing XSLT, or schemas such as XSD and Schematron. We will address the techniques and strategies adopted to create prompts for generating code, explaining code, or refactoring the code, and the results achieved.
The discussion will extend to how AI can be used to transform XML content. In particular, the focus will be on the use of AI XPath extension functions in XSLT, Schematron, Schematron Quick Fixes, or for XML content refactoring.
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Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
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As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
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Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
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Project Economics in New Product Development
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Project Economics
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principles and how they can be applied in new product development
scenarios to increase innovation, improve delivery times and create
engaged, happy, high-performing teams.
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3. Notes:
1. Maximizing Business Value (typically profit) is our goal.
2. In most cases Business Value primarily driven by value delivered to the end
customer.
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4. Notes:
1. The Goal is to _______________ profit.
2. Profit = Revenue – Product Cost – _______________
3. Cost is a Decrease in Profit either by:
a. Increasing Project Expenses or Product Cost (Actual Costs)
OR
b. Decreasing Revenue (Lost Opportunity Costs)
c. Generally, Lost Opportunity Costs are much _______________ than Actual
Costs
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5. Notes:
1. Analysis combined with intuition is better than intuition alone.
a. _______________ is average variability in intuition across individuals (100 to 1
is common).
b. Even with simplified analysis, the accuracy is improved.
2. The recommended unit of measure is company profit.
a. When comparing decision options, they must be compared in the same units.
Otherwise, how would you compare a development delay (schedule slip) to a
request to add a new feature (scope creep) to a unit cost reduction exercise?
b. The unit you measure determines your behavior.
i.
A focus on departmental labor costs results in _______________
efficiencies...
ii.
…which increases development _______________ resulting in reduced
profits.
iii. Typical examples:
•
Engineering waits for a complete set of requirements before starting.
•
Manufacturing wants a complete design to review once.
•
What others can you think of?
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3. Therefore, the unit that drives us to our goal is profit.
a. Always ask – which decision will make the most money?
b. Use Economic Modeling to convert decision options into projected profits.
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6. Notes:
1. There are three types of Economic Models: Project, Application, and Process. We
will focus on Project models, which…
a. enable tradeoff _______________ within a project...
b. …that are based on economics rather than _______________.
2. The Project Economic Model (PEM) is a simple, straightforward financial analysis
(Profit & Loss statement)
a. Everyone can understand it.
b. Not perfect, but good enough and easy to understand.
c. Can be customized to fit current financial projection tools, product families, etc.
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7. Notes:
1. The Standard Inputs to the Economic Model are:
a. Expenses (Engineering, Marketing, Test, Tooling, Prototype parts, etc.)
Any expense related to executing the project, outside of Unit Cost.
b. Unit Cost
The total cost of materials and labor required to produce each unit.
c. Product Performance
The expected sales volumes and sales price.
d. Schedule
Impact to sales forecasts and pricing as a function of time.
e. Risk
The probability that potential impacts will be realized.
2. The output is in Profit after ‘X’ years…
a. … where ‘X’ is the product life or a shorter number of years,
b. ‘X’ is typically chosen by Management and should be consistent across products.
3. There are always tradeoffs between these parameters.
a. This is a way of quantifying the tradeoffs.
b. It is the Triple Constraint (Schedule, Resources, Scope) in terms you can use to
determine how a proposed change will impact profitability.
4. _______________ costs are typically much larger than the _______________ costs.
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8. Notes:
1. Typically, when a product is late to market, it never reaches the maximum sales
volumes expected had it been launched on time.
2. Typically, when a product is early to market, it reaches a higher maximum sales
volume than expected if it had been launched on time.
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9. Notes:
1. The lost revenue s the difference between the Baseline and Delayed curves.
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12. Notes:
Scenario A - Expedite Long-Lead Parts
Pay $3000 to expedite some critical components to save 2 days of schedule.
1. Do you make this bet?
2. How much does it increase or decrease your profit?
3. Does this make the decision clear?
If not, why?
4. Would you have arrived at the same decision if you hadn’t done this analysis?
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13. Notes:
Scenario B – Improve Product Performance
Unit cost increases $10, no additional capital equipment is required, the project extends 5
wks, and adds $75K for additional development and validation. Improved performance is
expected to increase sales 2%.
1. Do you make this bet?
2. How much does it increase or decrease your profit?
3. Does this make the decision clear? If not, why?
4. Would you have arrived at the same decision if you hadn’t done this analysis?
5. How much would sales need to increase to breakeven?
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14. Notes:
• These formulas can be used to quickly assess tradeoffs in lieu of using the spreadsheet.
• Sensitivities for Sales, Schedule, and Unit Cost refer to A, B, and C above.
• Increases in Sales, Schedule, Unit Cost, and Expenses and are expressed as POSITIVE
values.
• See D, E, F, and G above.
Examples:
1. Do you add a feature which will increase sales 2% and add 2 weeks to the schedule?
_______ * _______ - _______ * _______ - _______ * _______ - __________ =
_____________
2. What if it also adds $10 to the unit cost?
_______ * _______ - _______ * _______ - _______ * _______ - __________ =
_____________
3. What if it requires $50K added expenses (labor, tooling, etc.)?
_______ * _______ - _______ * _______ - _______ * _______ - __________ =
_____________
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15. Notes:
1. When making economic decisions involving expense money, you want to make more
than 1 ____________________ dollar for every ____________ dollar you spend.
2. Opportunity dollars are ___________________ (you may not get that dollar back).
3. Usually you want to make ________________ than 1 Opportunity dollar per
expense dollar.
4. The Minimum Decision ROI should be determined by ______________________.
5. Above this ROI you probably do it. Below this ROI, you probably don’t.
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16. Notes:
1. A baseline Minimum Decision ROI has been established (sort-of) – the ROI for the
project.
2. The Project ROI is the Average ROI of all Project Work & Decisions
3. When evaluating tradeoffs, if your Decision ROI > Project ROI, you will increase the
overall ROI for the project. If your Decision ROI is less, you decrease the overall
ROI for the project.
4. When additional expense dollars are held tightly, or when ROIs of other competing
projects are greater, your Minimum Decision ROI may need to be greater than the
Project ROI.
5. You may still make money by accepting Decision ROIs lower than the Project ROI as
long as they are still large.
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19. Notes:
Risk simply means there’s a chance you’ll get an unexpected outcome (which might
take the form of a failure).
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20. Notes:
1. Determine values of EMV and ROI for the options above:
a. ____________________
b. ____________________
c. ____________________
2. Applying lean thinking to Option A, would you invest $10K if it would increase the
probability of success to 75%.
a. EMV _______________
b. ROI _______________
3. Do you see a large batch in the any of the options? Explain.
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22. Notes:
1. Since there’s always uncertainty in the sales forecasts, consider modeling the project
economics on conservative estimates.
2. This can go a long way toward gaining organizational buy-in to use and leverage Project
Economic Models (PEM).
3. Typically you’ll come to the same decisions, i.e. the tradeoff decisions based on the PEM
will be the same, because the economic parameters have about the same relative
importance.
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23. Notes:
1. Which project is more important?
a. Use Cost of Delay (COD)
b. Project A’s COD * the amount of Delay incurred by working on Project B vs.
Project B’s COD * the amount of Delay incurred by working on Project A
c. The higher the number, the greater the potential loss of profit, therefore the
higher the project’s priority.
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24. PEM Tips
• Develop with a cross-functional team
• Do the modeling early in program
• Embed the model in your planning process
• Have a clear Process Owner responsible for organizational
acceptance, improvements, etc.
• Focus on critical assumptions
(unit sales, baseline schedule, delay scenario)
• Update quarterly, or when key assumptions change
• Communicate the results to the entire team &
management
• Use an economic basis for making decisions
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25. Key Takeaways
• Projects of all types can be modeled on the basis of their
economics.
• All decisions can be more widely accepted and objective
when based on the economic impact on profit.
• … when you use a consistent, simple, company-accepted
tool and process.
• Faster decisions can be made with clear project level
guidelines & buying limits (Minimum Decision ROIs).
• This results in projects that are more profitable.
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26. Want to See More?
Read more about making project decisions based on
economic impact on Audible Ready, the #1 blog for
teams engaged in Agile, Lean and Flow in new product
development.
– Profit Based New Product Development Decisions: Part 1
– Introduction to Cost of Delay
Graphical Economic Models of Various Project Types
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New to the Company Product
Product Enhancement
Replacement/Next Generation Product
Sustaining Cost Reduction
Regulatory or Component End of Life (EOL)
Feasibility Studies to Improve Products
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Notes:Typically, when a product is late to market, it never reaches the maximum sales volumes expected had it been launched on time.Typically, when a product is early to market, it reaches a higher maximum sales volume than expected if it had been launched on time.
Notes:The lost revenue s the difference between the Baseline and Delayed curves.
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Notes:These formulas can be used to quickly assess tradeoffs in lieu of using the spreadsheet.Sensitivities for Sales, Schedule, and Unit Cost refer to A, B, and C above.Increases in Sales, Schedule, Unit Cost, and Expenses and are expressed as POSITIVE values.See D, E, F, and G above.Examples:Do you add a feature which will increase sales 2% and add 2 weeks to the schedule?_______ * _______ - _______ * _______ - _______ * _______ - __________ = _____________What if it also adds $10 to the unit cost? _______ * _______ - _______ * _______ - _______ * _______ - __________ = _____________What if it requires $50K added expenses (labor, tooling, etc.)?_______ * _______ - _______ * _______ - _______ * _______ - __________ = _____________
Notes:When making economic decisions involving expense money, you want to make more than 1 ____________________ dollar for every ____________ dollar you spend.Opportunity dollars are ___________________ (you may not get that dollar back).Usually you want to make ________________ than 1 Opportunity dollar per expense dollar.The Minimum Decision ROI should be determined by ______________________. Above this ROI you probably do it. Below this ROI, you probably don’t.
Notes:A baseline Minimum Decision ROI has been established (sort-of) – the ROI for the project.The Project ROI is the Average ROI of all Project Work & DecisionsWhen evaluating tradeoffs, if your Decision ROI > Project ROI, you will increase the overall ROI for the project. If your Decision ROI is less, you decrease the overall ROI for the project.When additional expense dollars are held tightly, or when ROIs of other competing projects are greater, your Minimum Decision ROI may need to be greater than the Project ROI.You may still make money by accepting Decision ROIs lower than the Project ROI as long as they are still large.
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Notes:Since there’s always uncertainty in the sales forecasts, consider modeling the project economics on conservative estimates.This can go a long way toward gaining organizational buy-in to use and leverage Project Economic Models (PEM).Typically you’ll come to the same decisions, i.e. the tradeoff decisions based on the PEM will be the same, because the economic parameters have about the same relative importance.
Notes:Which project is more important?Use Cost of Delay (COD)Project A’s COD * the amount of Delay incurred by working on Project B vs. Project B’s COD * the amount of Delay incurred by working on Project AThe higher the number, the greater the potential loss of profit, therefore the higher the project’s priority.