Capital productivity

Challenges

Allocating scarce capital across a portfolio of opportunities to generate the highest potential returns while mitigating risks continues to grow in complexity, especially in asset-intensive industries. In addition to selecting the right mix of investments, achieving world-class capital productivity requires that individual investment opportunities have been optimized, executed well, and managed with disciplined governance and follow-up processes to ensure targeted results are achieved.

Furthermore, sustaining capital programs are another key element of achieving targeted returns during the entire asset life cycle, potentially impacting 20% or more of investment NPV. Sustaining capital programs must be well orchestrated and right-sized to ensure asset health and to achieve the required asset performance and longer-term targeted ROI.

Solutions

Hatch can help you achieve significantly improve return on capital investments including growth and sustaining capital as well as indirect investments such as working capital. We leverage our deep industry experience and long history of success in large, complex life cycle project execution—design, construct, commission, ramp-up, and optimize.

Portfolio management and optimization

Viewing capital projects as a holistic portfolio is critical in managing a firm’s risks and opportunities. We help you plan and manage a holistic capital project portfolio where growth and sustaining capital projects follow structured identification, evaluation, and selection processes. Have we appropriately prioritized our projects? Are there projects in the queue that should be accelerated? Can this spend be deferred? Are we adequately managing risks? With our multi-disciplinary teams, risks and opportunities can be better managed and the planned value delivered to the business.

Project value improvement

Extract every ounce of value from their capital projects. Discover and capture value at all phases of the project life cycle. Our integrated team seamlessly works together to identify, evaluate, and deliver everything from small design improvements to massive schedule optimization initiatives.

Working capital optimization

Manage and optimize your working capital. We can help you build and deliver strategies for managing accounts receivable, accounts payable, inventories, and short-term assets. Our holistic approach to working capital optimization helps maximize capital efficiency and deliver a more profitable, resilient business.

Blogs

When procuring zero-emission buses, there’s strength in numbers

Daniel Lang, PhD

Discover the advantages of joint procurement for smaller transit agencies transitioning to zero-emission buses in Daniel Lang's latest blog for Hatch. Learn how this approach can help agencies acquire funding, reduce costs, and increase vehicle support while sharing knowledge and infrastructure. Explore the success of MaineDOT's pilot project and how Hatch assisted in developing feasible pathways for every agency to transition to hybrid or battery electric technologies. Get insights into Hatch's expertise in ZEB solutions and their commitment to combating climate change.

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The driverless endgame

Andrew Miller, Victoria Webster and Bern Grush

As automated driving technology becomes more prevalent, policymakers face significant challenges in ensuring the safety of drivers and passengers while promoting innovation. From liability to data privacy, @AndrewMiller's blog delves into key issues policymakers must address to establish a comprehensive policy and regulatory framework for the responsible development and deployment of this technology. Download our white paper for in-depth analysis and more than 40 recommendations on how to navigate the legislative and regulatory barriers to automated driving.

New dawn: The new circular net-zero age

Adel Muna

We're in new territory. A new dawn where we have experienced war, crisis frameworks, and a demand for energy transformation. Is there a need to speed up the net-zero industrial transformation?

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