There is ever-increasing pressure on customers and their suppliers to deliver more efficient cost effective relationships, products and services.
Despite this historically adversarial relationships have prevailed with much energy expended to capture some of the other party's margin. The mistrust created is at the root cause of increased operating costs, technical complexity, adversarial management, unnecessary and unbalanced risk of financial exposure, and inadequate communications.
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The way forward is to develop collaborative relationships stressing interdependency and co-operation.
The CRINE (Cost Reduction in a New Era) implemented in the North Sea offshore oil and gas production industry has delivered cost and time improvements of 40% in the delivery of complex facilities. |
