Transforming your organization’s potential into Ultimate Performance

We coach leaders and teams in the skills, behaviors, and mindsets they need to transform their culture, ways of working, and processes in pursuit of delivering strategic goals. Our areas of expertise are: Lean | Agile | Strategy Deployment | Culture Change | Leader and Team Excellence | M&A Integration

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Becoming an enduring great organization requires relentless focus, change, and support

Culture affects all aspects of business

Pursuing transformational business goals successfully relies on the development of new skills and the capability to change minds and hearts at scale. However, many companies do not have the internal capability nor the capacity to improve at the pace required today.

As a result, businesses need help reengineering their leadership capability, culture, team effectiveness, organization systems and processes toward a better future—and that’s what we do at Ultimate Performance (UP). This is particularly true for the oil and gas industry which is committed to achieving unprecedented net-zero emission targets, as well as for merger and acquisition strategic buyers and private equity firms seeking growth.

 

Peter Drucker famously states—”culture eats strategy for breakfast.”

We believe culture is every organization’s DNA. It’s the glue that makes any company unique. When culture aligns with purpose, strategies, and business goals—it accelerates growth, improves employee engagement, reduces risk, and builds brand.

When culture doesn’t align, employees feel less connected to their jobs and become less productive. That leads to missed revenue targets and more challenges, including making transformation difficult, if not impossible.

Coaching, culture change, and systems development support for corporate resilience

Our team employs the best organizational excellence and performance capability-building formula—developed based on the top growing and enduring companies. We create experiences that prompt mindset shifts and culture change, while building the work systems and workflows that enable sustaining change at scale.

Our team works proactively and reactively to facilitate transformation. We help leaders build their organizational health and systems to ensure they work for the business.

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Demand for Change is Rapidly Rising

Expectations for low-carbon solutions increase the need for innovation and technology integration

Tighter margins and increased cost of capital elevate the need for better performance

New business processes, technologies, and reorganizations create stability challenges

Market volatility and supply chain interruptions increase the need for agility

Setting any organization up for successful transformation requires higher leadership capacity

Will your organization emerge stronger or fall behind?

Meeting today’s challenges like digitization, product and service innovation, demand and supply uncertainty, shifting markets, growing customer and society expectations, and new forms of competition boils down to one common denominator—people.

Organizations that are emerging stronger instead of falling behind—focus on providing their people with the tools and thinking to thrive. People are vital to transformation success.

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Creating lasting impact in today’s challenging environment

“The only thing of real importance that leaders do is to create and manage culture”—Edgar Schein

To create lasting excellence, company leaders need support in elevating their people and change leadership. With higher change leadership capability to unlock a new culture, along with improved systems and tools, organizations enable new capabilities such as:

  • Executing strategy and decisions quicker
  • Scaling up new businesses while dealing with ambiguity, complexity, and rapid change
  • Learning fast from improvement efforts
  • Learning new ways of working and unlearning some habits of the past

UP works hand-in-hand with leaders and teams to enable the necessary shifts for change. We do that by revealing and eliminating the most pressing barriers to profitable growth. The result is financial strength and impactful transformation.

Our Success Stories

Order-to-Cash

Freed up cash through cycle-time reduction.

Global Functions Offshoring and Centralizing Organizations (CoEs)

Served as the “enabler” in the transition to a new effective and lower-cost HR, IT, and Finance services support model.

Drilling & Completion

Achieved industry-leading performance.

Strategy Deployment

Cascaded strategy vertically and horizontally for high alignment on the What and How.

Vendor Management & Requisition to Pay

Drove out millions of dollars in payment errors.

Asset-Integrated Planning

Simplification of work and global standards freed up 80% of technical talent to work on higher value deliverables.

Commercial Operations Value

Greater than $100M in value capture from land and midstream operations through improved contract management.

Competitive Turnaround

Reduced cost by 50%, moving from worst-in-class to best-in-class performance.

Development Planning

Doubled production output within six months.

Discovery to First Oil

Doubled throughput of successful discoveries and reduced cycle time to first oil by 50%.

Global Functions Offshoring and Centralizing Organizations (CoEs)

Served as the “enabler” in the transition to a new effective and lower-cost HR, IT, and Finance services support model.

Maintenance

Simplification and process transformation enabled zero backlog with lower delivery cost.

Performance-Unit Management

Implemented check-and-adjust process for achieving breakthrough objectives.

Production Deferment

Reduced asset downtime by 30%.

Project Delivery

Sustainably reduced project delivery time by 30%.

Refinery Turnaround

Reduced wasted time by 30% and increased time on tools and reliability.

Retail Fulfilment Optimization

Doubled throughput capacity, reduced handling costs by 65%, and increased order accuracy to 99%+.

Seismic

Reduced seismic interpretation time by 30%.

Site Facilities

Reduced lead time and cost by 30%.

Supply Chain/ Logistics

Achieved a $10 million cash-flow impact.

Technology Delivery

Drove down technology deployment cycle time by 50%, allowing for earlier ROI and longer benefit.

Trading Process & Digital Transformation

Unlocked cash potential through transaction speed and quality.