Owner Team Consultation (Pty) Ltd

Project Development

We can work with the owner or developer to develop a project in line with the business case through the whole project lifecycle using sound stage-gate principles. These consulting activities are customised to the needs of the client and typically include:

Project Execution
Setting up the owner team up for success.
Supporting the owner team, and especially the sponsor and project management team.
Defining, planning and controlling the project using stage-gate and project management principles.
Applying effective owner project controls that provides management information to empower the owner to make informed decisions.
Developing and managing both product and project scope.
Pro-actively managing business and project risk.
Ensuring project outcomes through the value assurance process.

PROJECT SERVICES
Adding bottom line value over the full project life-cycle.

As an organisation needing to make capital investments you are faced with several challenges. You might not have a dedicated owner team in-house who can develop and execute capital projects. Or your team might lack specific experience or expertise in certain areas. You might not have a complete end to end methodology, or your current methodology does not adequately cover what needs to be done.
Project Management and Project Services is the practice of initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing the work of a team to achieve specific goals and meet specific success criteria at the specified time. The primary challenge of Project Management is to achieve all of the project goals within the given constraints whereas the services portion is the support functions to enable effective project management.
A number of companies do not have, or cannot justify, permanent in-house project management and project services teams to define and oversee project development throughout the life cycle. These projects are often overseen by inexperienced project teams which rely solely on the engineering contractor for direction and potentially conflicting agendas.
How we help clients
OTC provides a diverse range of skilled resources to assist owners with project management and project processes for project development and implementation. During project development and implementation we follow a team based approach by delivering a complete Project Management service or by complementing the owners team resources.

During the development and implementation of projects we aim to protect the owner’s long term interest. We make our clients’ owner team more effective through providing management, project advice, training, specialised tools and support.

OTC will work with you to:

Provide Project Management and Project Controls services.
Improve your existing project processes with an emphasis on the early stage project development.
Provide you with a structured and proven front end loading practice that can result in cost reduction, a reduction in time to beneficial operation and improvement in safety performance.
Improve the predictability of future project outcomes and improve the ability of your project team to deliver as promised. We will empower your team to ensure that they meet the long-term performance criteria set by the client.
We also assist owners in the evaluation or due diligence of existing projects and help implement recommended improvements.
How we work
OTC provides consulting services throughout the project lifecycle based on proven stage gate methodologies. These are delivered in the form of self-service resources and/or training (Toolkits), facilitated workshops, training courses and consulting.

OTC can take on all or part of the Owner Team role by providing appropriate competent personnel. OTC can also assist the owner in identifying and recruiting members of the owner team in which case OTC could function in a supporting, advisory and coaching role.

Services Offered
Management and support in owner team set up
Defining the key competencies and structure for an effective owner team; and
Assist / advise in setting up Project Management and Project Control practices with proven methodologies for project success.

BUSINESS & OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
We support and enable business to optimise operations.

There is a need to constantly improve operational performance as the business must keep on growing and improving as well as adapt to new challenges and changing customer requirements.
Production facilities often underperform and seldom meet their intended capacities as operations slowly deteriorate over time through either loss in availability, throughput or product quality. Improving the productivity of existing operations adds directly to the bottom line profit of a company.
A holistic approach to operational performance is important to ensure that any performance improvement benefits are sustained.
How we help our clients

During ongoing operations we help you adapt to new challenges and optimise your operation by providing experienced consultants and subject-matter experts in support of the business. We have the expertise to look at the full business value chain, including technical functions and organisational structuring and processes, as well as possible “soft” issues.

How we work
We, as part of the client team, follow a structured process in which we :

Determining the present baseline that the plant can sustain (Availability, Throughput and Quality).
Set up mechanisms to track the performance continuously to be able to identify deviations and measure progress.
Investigate and identify reasons for any deviations, good or bad and be that technical, process or people.
Determine what the deviations are between the measured baseline and the design intent or maximum sustainable capacity.
Finding the root causes.
Developing business cases, justifications and selecting best options for implementation.
Specifying requirements for and support implementing preventive or corrective actions This could include an optimised operating or maintenance philosophy and strategy (systems, standards, procedures, equipment replacements, other modifications, personnel training and development, communication, recognition), organisational structure changes and capital projects.
Assist with the necessary change management to ensure success. The change management plan is developed to be fit for purpose, based on the capacity, structure, and culture of the client company.
Review performance after implementation to confirm new baseline.
During ongoing operations we help you adapt to new challenges and optimise your operation by providing experienced consultants and subject-matter experts in support of the business.

Services Offered
Business & Operations SupportBusiness closure / exit strategies
Benchmark studies

Due diligence audits (Mergers and Acquisitions)

Business performance audits

Strategy development and facilitation of strategy workshops

Organisational structuring including clarification of roles and responsibilities

Competency and skills gap analysis and training needs analysis

Training – “soft” skills, technical skills ( e.g. problems analysis, root cause analysis)

Business case development

Scoping of plant modifications and capital projects.

Ongoing plant support on a “retainer” basis

Supporting the change management process

PROCESS FACILITATION
Fit-for-purpose facilitation services customised to your needs.

In running your business or planning and executing your project, facilitation of group or team sessions speeds up alignment and problem solving. From business strategy to project kick- off meetings and even technical problem solving. Our team is also geared to facilitate training or coaching sessions based on our areas of expertise. Let us help you create the momentum to achieve your objectives.
How we help clients

OTC provides our clients with expert facilitators plus subject matter experts (as required) to conduct focused workshops. These workshops are fit-for-purpose and customised to your needs. We avoid following long winded, rigid facilitation processes. Such workshops empower teams to very quickly set the scene and agree on an action plan. We support our clients in the planning of the workshops to ensure that the targeted outcomes are met.

We are well versed in the use of collaboration tools, and can support projects and businesses to set up systems and tools to facilitate online collaboration.

We provide facilitation of training on specialised topics directed at owner representatives and project team members. These courses help project stakeholders get familiar with concepts from an owner perspective.

Facilitation Services/Workshops


These are developed fit for purpose for each client, using best practices we developed: We also make use of specific methodologies such as:

Root-cause analyses;
Situation -, Problem – , Potential Deviation and Decision Analyses


Business / operations support
Strategy facilitation
Value enhancement or continuous improvement exercises

SPECIALISED CONSULTING
Innovative engineering and fit for purpose processes and design.

In our current economic environment, keeping costs low and driving efficiency and productivity of assets are of paramount importance. New projects for growth and optimisations to existing systems are important facets of keeping your existing business viable into the future.
How we help clients
With our tried and tested methodologies, OTC’s multidisciplinary team of experienced consultants, is able to do audits, optimisation studies, conceptual engineering, engineering design, project management and commissioning of process plants.

Our consultants are able to work with you as business owners to assess and translate your needs into design packages.

How we work
OTC is well established in performing technical support both on site and remotely. This can include remote consultation and video collaboration. Our engineers are well accustomed to working in virtual offices and collaborating through cloud and internet based systems.

We are able to draw from the vast experience of consultants in a variety of fields of expertise to consult in a broad field of technologies

Services offered
Auditing Operational Processes
Finance
Production and Maintenance
Production Planning
Sales
Risk Management
Procurement
Logistics
IT