Welcome to these new, unique opportunities:

Proofing against unforeseen loss and overruns

Scheduling with the degree of safety need

Decades of economic forecasts - not a single failure

Identification of new optimisation opportunities

The most promising means of expediting your schedules

Dramatic boost to teambuilding within the project group

Underpinning all these opportunities are uncertainty analyses or quality reviews using the so-called Successive Principle or Lichtenberg Principle. Since the 1980s this principle has been used with great success at international level in several hundred projects ranging from the small to the ‘mega’, and within most sectors.

The convincing results achieved owe their success to a procedure which makes optimum use of all the skills combined in a carefully composed analysis group. The neutrality of the group’s estimates is ensured by a specially designed procedure, whereby the results are evaluated according to modern statistical principles (read more).

January 2012

The principle insured a unique building project against budget overrun

A large-scale “multi-purpose arena” was planned in Oslo for concerts, sports events etc. (it is now the Oslo Spektrum). The winner of the architectural design contest put the cost of the project at £ 28 million. Three years later the costs had risen to £ 68 according to a budget quality analysis. Using the Successive Principle the project was rationalised to an expected cost of £ 42 million. The final costs became a little less than this amount.

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