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The Successive Principle ultra-short

The Successive Principle is a new"generation" of management and planning tools, which integrates strategic forecasts, budget estimates, time schedules, risk management, optimisation and teambuilding. It is unique in achieving a previously unseen accuracy/realism and operationally effective results. The scope of applications is illustrated by examples below.

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• A contracting company earns much more than usual.
  The Contractor used the principle, but upgraded it in 2006 to a strategic tool and intensified the use. Since then his profit augmented significantly.
• A delayed new international airport was accelerated
  Gardemoen airport (Norway) was delayed. An analysis process was carried out using the Successive Principle. Result: acellerated and opened on time.
• Sweden unique with decommissioning of nuclear power plants
  Swedish nuclear power plants pay a fee to a decommission fond. The Principle is used regularly to update the fee to safeguard the fond size.
• The principle insured an unique building project against overrun
  This cost budget of this project was significantly reduced thanks to an analysis before detail design. The project finally kept to the reduced budget.
• IT projects can be speeded up and completed on time
  A delayed large IT project was accelerated mid-way and finished on time. Among several analysed IT projects none so far have met unplanned delays.
• Document the positive effect of innovative pre-tender planning
  A firm tendered a project with an very tight deadline. They documented their innovative pre-tender planning. They won and finished in time.
• Used the winning company dumping? No!
  Two shipyards tendered about a cruise ship. The 'specialist shipyard' loosed toward the other. They had proactively reduced the costs before bidding.
• A company snatches an order from major international competitors
  A medium sized company tendered for a large international defence contract. Beeing first to see the major success factors it won the contract.
• The greatest commercial success via the principle
  Too many R&D projects are in the pipeline. A project way down on the list emerged as a potential winner, and became the largest 'Golden Egg'.
• Leapfrogeed the competition thanks to theSuccessive Principle
  In a fierce international competition our company had a variant accepted and rapidly a new price. Competitors came too late with thier new prices.
• They retrenched just before a crisis
  An analysis of a developing project before the former crisis gave an early warning. It was finally cancelled, which saved a significant loss.
• Audit checks against fraud - possibility for a higher efficiency
  A case of serious business fraud was analysed and clarified. Part of the international business group was saved.
• A rare success for two rail projects - the principle was involve
  Two complicated rail projects used the principle. The one finished on time and to budget, the other before time and under budget. A seldom success.
• SSP, Europes largest research project in Lund, Sweden
  ESS, European Spallatation Source, a European neutron-research project, Sweden, uses the Successive Principle.