The rapid change of our current worldwide business environment and its impact on project logistics The organization which can foresee these impacts and plan for them will come out as the winner in the years to come

1. Business Environment & Project
Logistics
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PACC Container Lines Pte Ltd.,
Singapore

2. • Region
• Culture
Business Environment
– Language
– Social fabric
– Transparency
• Geography
• Climate
• People
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• Society
– Laws & regulations
– Infrastructure
– Expertise
• Competition
• Customers
• Internal Ecosystem
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3. Results of today’s environment
External
• Rapid change
• Uncertainty
• Worldwide consolidation
• Increasingly complexity
• Vertical and horizontal
integration
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Internal
• Rapid changes
• Uncertainty
• Consolidation
• Reliance on technology
• Restructuring/Repositioning
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4. Reflections
- Missing the forest for the trees
- Crashing on the shores
- Crystal ball is ….
- BUT –
- The Future is bright!!!!
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5. Internal Ecosystem
• Values
• Ethics
• Systems
• Expectations
• Fulfillment Process
– internal & external
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Customer connect
Willingness to reach out
Managing expectations
Speed of change
Network
Support systems
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6. Coping Strategies
Company
• Strategy
• Acquisitions and
Mergers
• Talent acquisition
• Cost cutting
• Consultants
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Systems
IT
Training
Cost
cutting/Resizing/Right
sizing
• Restructuring
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7. Coping Strategies
Functional Level
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Networking
Doing more of the same
Creative Thinking
Lobbying
Fighting the Pig
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• Upgrading skills
• Injecting new blood
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8. Project LogisticS
What is LogisticS?
Project LogisticS
Name some LogisticS companies
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9. Project LogisticS
Flow of information?
Flow of services?
Flow of material products?
Or
Flow of value?
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10. Project LogisticS Business
Environment
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Global nature
Infrastructure or Project
Financial Closure
Long term engagement
Regulatory environment is
challenging and rapidly
changing.
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• Special relationships
• Every stage is evaluated as
an independent value
proposition by the end user.
• Intense competition
• Quality of service is taken as
granted
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11. Organization wide - Markers of
success
Apposite
• Clarity of purpose
• Robust culture
• Strong teamwork
• Closeness to customer
• Differentiation
• Adaptive
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Opposite
• Lack of ….
• Lack of a ….. …..
• A divided ….
• Non existing customer ….
• Competition
• Rigid
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12. Tools that work
Personal traits
• Discipline
• Setting a routine
• Health
• Willingness to learn
• Seeker mentality
• Develop a hobby
• Become a volunteer
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Tools
• Mind Mapping
• Networking
• Training – on the job
– Using tools already at hand
• Starting the job
• Seeking help
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13. Some useful phrases
• When the going gets tough the tough get ….
• Keep calm and carry ….
• The pot of gold at the end of the …..
• Tough times never last tough people …
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14. Culture building
• Culture is built on anecdotes and stories
• Culture is reinforced by visible steps
• Culture takes time to grow roots
• Training is an integral part of Culture
• Culture is an integral part of Training
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15. Creativity Exercise…1
“Of all variables, the easiest to quantify is often
the magnitude and impact of failure…But the
odds and magnitude of success are near
impossible to define” – Jonathan Fields
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16. Creativity Exercise…2
Redefine the issue
Redefine the rules
“I need more customers”
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17. Creativity Exercise…3
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18. Thank you