GSS Consulting focuses on the intersection of generating positive business results, optimal use of technologies (both
physical and as well as digital), and creative, forward-looking processes.
Tools, processes, and business approach must assure that appropriate responses are identified or planned/budgeted;
awareness of situation, needs, etc. must be systematically and consistently converted into actions to both realize
benefits and assure that business outcomes are fully optimized. Yet, these same tools and processes must be capable
of examining and informing to what degree and when changes in strategy and objectives is required.
The reality of profiting in industrial or energy context requires attention to both technical performance and business
objectives and strategies, grounded in sound asset managment processes but bolstered with strong analytics to
explore and examine how business strateges, requirements, and business needs. must evolve or shift over time.
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Technical performance. This would nominally include asset or system performance (capacity, efficiency, …), reliability (ability to be
reliable/available when required), compliance (emission, effluent management), and financial (matching output to market or
contract commitments, and managing profit margins; typically, technical performance is a function of operations, maintenance,
contractual/market opportunities, and capital investment.
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Capital investment. Nature and timing of investments must match needs of asset refurbishment/repairs/upgrades needed over the
life of the asset; value in returning assets to design or operational basis must be factored into overall capital prioritization and needs
to consider value accretion or decline over time, across seasons, events, etc.
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Business Objectives and Strategies. Production agility (ability to tailor volume of, timing of, or nature of outputs produced),
regional/global macro-economic factors, political/geo-political factors, and transitions or additions to products or services to be
offered over time.