WHY TRAINING?

SAMI Knowledge Operations learning programs will provide companies with the skills and training required in mastering best practices across their organizations.

WHERE IT ALL BEGAN

Strategic Asset Management Inc. began as a concept during the early summer of 1996, in an attempt to rectify the poor record of consulting firms in making long term change.

Maintenance consulting simply failed to work most of the time.  While there were usually some short term gains, it seemed that neither party was satisfied for long.  Consultants took on a burden on every job, because they were always fighting an uphill battle with the client.

The core issue was that a maintenance project was always seen as something that engaged only the maintenance department.  And while it represented a valuable goal, the key enabling factor, ownership by production, seldom happened.  Secondly, when activities are considered to be temporary by the work force, that is, of a project nature, there is always the view that once the project is over, people can revert to their former activities and comfort level.

Solving these two issues was the genesis of SAMI.  First, the work wasn’t just maintenance, but dealt with the whole plant population, as everyone in the plant has ownership of assets from some aspect.  Thus the part of our name, Asset Management.  Then, that the nature of the work had to originate at the highest levels of a company, and be the basis of a new way of working, now and forever.  It would not be a project, but a strategic initiative, matching our five stages of development in what we then called the SAMI Triangle.  This would require a Strategic Plan.  Thus the part of our name, Strategic. 

For the past 11 years we have been delivering change to clients and have built a cadre of excellent client references aroung the globe, and contractors who work with us project after project.  We have an experienced delivery process, and can deliver consistent quality jobs, based on our documented methods and processes.  We know who we are, where we intend to go, how we will get there and what values we will employ with each other and our clients.  We have developed four triangles for functional excellence, and a managing system model, which together we believe are the best models for process industry performance improvement available anywhere in the world. To find out more about SAMI's past client projects visit www.samicorp.com.