Our clients come to us when they need specialist expertise and want to free up internal resources for other project-critical tasks. They often ask us how we can get involved and what the process is. Here are Cascade Engineering’s Ben Barrass and Rob Harborne to answer a few questions. Read more
Welcome to our latest newsletter. It comes at the end of a busy six months for Cascade, where in addition to fulfilling our contracts, we’ve also been evaluating our services, and mapping out a clear process plan to help our customers see how we can help them. It’s been a great exercise in stepping back
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Ben, our Managing Director, and Nick, one of our Structural Engineers, headed to Germany to visit our long-standing client, QinetiQ. It was a marathon of jabs, PCRs and amber lists but great to be able to finally meet with our clients face to face again after months of change and challenge. The team wanted to
In the summer of 2006, Cascade Engineering’s Managing Director, Ben Barrass, was not taking things easy. “Alongside setting up Cascade with my business partner, Rob Harborne, my wife and I were expecting our second child – practically in the same week,” he remembers. “I had also contracted chicken pox, so there was a major query
Cascade Engineering, a leading specialist in concept-to-certification engineering design, is celebrating a milestone for the first in class, Type 26 HMS Glasgow. The ship, which is a BAE Systems Maritime project, is currently being built at the Govan shipyards in Glasgow, and has just celebrated the successful installation of the foremast. “Working on the foremast
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Large companies often benefit from bringing in a fresh pair of eyes. That’s because the people inside the organisation can, over time, get into a certain way of thinking and acting that doesn’t actually benefit the organisation at all. This is often referred to as ‘Groupthink’ – a situation where people stop challenging designs, decisions
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The final unit of one of Cascade Engineering’s earliest projects, the Poseidon anti-submarine and anti-surface warfare aircraft, already in operation in the USA, Australia and India, has now been delivered. This is the final unit in a nine-aircraft order for the RAF. Based at RAF Lossiemouth and with the ‘Poseidon MRA1’ designation, the aircraft will
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Often we hear one of the biggest worries for programme managers thinking about outsourcing is whether their external partner will be fully committed to the project. After all, they’re not part of the organisation, they may have other projects, and they could easily take their foot off the pedal – with disastrous consequences for your
THREE REASONS WHY YOUR OUTSOURCED PARTNER IS MORE COMMITTED TO YOUR PROJECT THAN YOU ARE Read More »
“There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don’t know we don’t know.” This famous Donald Rumsfeld quote sums up the importance of well
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Knowing if or when to outsource is a critical project management skill. It can feel counter-intuitive; after all your in-house teams will be immersed and invested in the project and its success. Yet this is to misunderstand the reality and benefits that external ears and eyes can bring. Far from just being an additional expense
7 REASONS WHY AN OUTSOURCED PARTNER CAN GIVE YOU A COMPETITIVE EDGE Read More »