CONSULTING
There exists a rather
unique window of opportunity over the next 5 years for those who are
brave and savy enough
to make the required
investment in Power Utilities - the entire world needs power 24/7 - now
+6B strong and growing
The Power Barge is
that instrument-of-choice - for all the obvious reasons - like what the
mobile phone did to landlines.
Management consulting is becoming more prevalent in non-business
related fields as well. As the need for professional
and specialized advice grows, other
industries such as government,
quasi-government and not-for-profit
agencies are
turning to the same managerial principles that have helped
the private sector for years.
One important and recent change in the industry has been the
spin-off or separation of the consulting and the accounting
units of
the large diversified firms. For these firms, which began business as
accounting firms, management consulting was
a new extension to their
business. But after a number of highly publicized scandals over
accounting practices, such as the
Enron
scandal, accountancies began divestiture of their management consulting
units, to more easily comply with the tighter
regulatory scrutiny that
followed.
In general, various approaches to consulting can be thought of as
lying somewhere along a continuum, with an 'expert' or
prescriptive
approach at one end, and a facilitative approach at the other. In the
expert approach, the consultant takes the
role of expert, and provides
expert advice or assistance to the client, with, compared to the
facilitative approach, less input
from, and fewer collaborations with,
the client(s). With a facilitative approach, the consultant focuses
less on specific or
technical expert knowledge, and more on the process
of consultation itself. Because of this focus on process, a
facilitative
approach is also often referred to as 'process
consulting,' as a best known practitioner positioning.
Many consulting firms are organized in a matrix structure, where one
'axis' describes a business function or type of consulting:
for
example, strategy, operations, technology, executive leadership,
talent management, marketing, sales, margins, etc.
The second axis is an industry focus:
for example, oil and gas, retail, automotive. Together, these form a
matrix, with consultants
occupying one or more 'cells' in the matrix.
For example, one consultant may specialize in operations for the retail
industry, and
another may focus on process improvement in the
downstream oil and gas industry.
Often a corporation will simply employ a group of people within its own
walls - hoping to bring an objective evaluation to a difficult
scenario - this can lead to problems where senior management would like
to see their own, possibly 'flawed' policies, remain intact
There exists today, a huge opportunity, to fill a major shortage in the
'Power Arena' - countries like South Africa, Ecuador, Venezuela,
Viet Nam, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, etc, all have mismanaged their
power
utilities and are now running 'energy negative' ie - they all need
very large capital expenditure in those markets - Venezuela needs at
least 1.5GW - that is say 15 x Power Barges - South Africa needs
2.5 GW - thats say 25 x Power Barges - there is enough scope for maybe
200 x 100/120MW Power Barges - Globally
See the West Corridor Project
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Latest News ....
We are intimately
involved with the Western Power Corridor project -
the biggest in the world - feel free to call me
on this, if you wish, to supply Power Barges - we need to take power
directly to the raw materials source, immediately.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aQ6J7V.9mFYQ
Shell-Qatar have just finished the biggest gas-fluid plant in the world
- Nigeria is the next project - which is in the
WPC sector - we are intimately involved in this project also, as it is
extremely power intensive, and wont wait the
years and years to get approval of land based power stations that never
seem to get beyond the planning stages...
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601116&sid=amp3xTaIp4as
- The internal consultant may not bring the objectivity to the
consulting relationship that an external firm can.
- An internal consultant also may not bring to the table best practices
from other corporations.
- A way to mitigate this issue is to recruit
experience into the group and/or proactively provide diverse training
to internal consultants.
- Where the consulting industry is strong and consulting
compensation high, it can be difficult to recruit candidates.
- It is often difficult to accurately measure the true costs and
benefits of an internal consulting group.
- When financial times get tough, internal consulting groups that
have not effectively demonstrated economic value (costs vs.
benefits)
- are likely to face size reductions or reassignment.
There are several potential benefits of consultants to those
who employ them:
- If properly managed and empowered, consulting groups
evaluate engagement on projects
- in light of the corporation's strategic
and tactical objectives
- Often, the consultant requires less ramp up time on a
project due to familiarity with the corporation, and
- is able to guide a
project through to implementation - a step that would be too
costly if
no consultant were used.
- Internal relationship provides opportunities to keep certain
corporate information private.
- It is likely that the time and materials cost of internal
consultants is significantly less than
- external consultants operating
in the same capacity.
For a mere stipend, it is possible to receive objective, unbiased
advice on which way to move - we also have a handle on who is
in the rental market and what countries are in dire need of portable
power - today we could rent or charter 10 x Power Barges
With Carbon Tax Credits all the rage and calls for a greener world,
this trend is good for the next five years - it will take any
country that long to roll out even a 200MW land-based Power Station -
and then its already too small ....like building freeways
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