Velocity® Insights

Opinion

From time to time, Concord CEO Olfa Hamdi and others share their thoughts on emerging, important or controversial issues concerning capital projects and related fields. Here you’ll find all of our opinion pieces collected in one place.

Capital Project Transformation is a Human Resources Problem, Too

Discover how established construction career paths are undermining your efforts to adopt Advanced Work Packaging and Predictability Thinking™

Site-Based Capital Project Predictability

Now is the time to turn our attention to site-based projects, working to improve margin and to capture additional untapped value and synergies from assets we already own.

Race, Diversity, and Inclusion in Capital Project Organizations

A strategic guide for capital project leaders who want to support African Americans who work in their organizations.

A New Era Begins: How COVID-19 Will Change Capital Projects Forever

Success in a post-pandemic economy will require new paradigms and new tools. Let’s get started.

Editorial: It’s Time To Raise The Bar

Why do we tacitly accept the fact that most capital projects are late and over-budget?

Chaos In Capital Projects Is Bad For Business

For centuries, it seems that our industry has operated on the unspoken assumption that “in chaos lies profit.” It worked for a long time, when commodity prices were high and transparency minimal. But chaos won’t work anymore.

Editorial: Roadmap To A Predictable Future

What will it take to make site-based projects successful? How do we provide a strong return on investment? How can we deliver on-time? On-budget? The answer to all of these questions depends on your commitment to a single word: predictability.

Editorial: Innovation In Action

When it comes to capital projects, what does a culture of innovation look like? What will it take to get us there?

Begin With The End In Mind

The first step to capital effectiveness is better front-end definition. If you take one thing away from this spring edition of Velocity® magazine, let it be this.

The Art Of Integration

Why deliberate, knowledge-driven integration matters now, more than ever.