Axximuth Infrastructure Consultants

02/05/2016

There are ultimately three(3) key things developing nations need to do to bridge the infrastructure gap by 2030:

1) Strategic infrastructure planning & selection
2) Streamlined Infrastructure delivery
3) Human Capacity development.

Nations of Sub-Saharan Africa, South-East Asia, MENA/Caspian Sea and South America must begin to create a linkage between infrastructure delivery and national development based on sound de-biased cost and benefit analysis using Reference Class Forecasting (RCF) and scenarios planning.
Axximuth Infrastructure Consultants (AIC) are here for good and here to help.
We believe that with the right application of a mix of cutting-edge Oxford and Cambridge University experienced based methodologies and time- tested industry experience anchored on a proprietary software platform that uses a risk-base algorithm, we will support Public and Private Sector Infrastructure owners, Governments, Policy makers, International Development Agencies, Private Equity & Venture Capitalist, Institutional Investors and Lenders in navigating through planning, selection and delivery uncertainties.

Axximuth .........facilitating intelligent investment decisions

16/05/2015

THE PROBLEM WITH PROJECT RISK MANAGEMENT.
- Questionable programme managers, drunk project managers and careless project team, a recipe for disaster.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y1ya-yF35g

America has over 4,800 nuclear weapons, and we don’t take terrific care of them. It’s terrifying, basically. Connect with Last Week Tonight online... Subscri...

16/05/2015

Infrastructure is not Sexy - Michael Bloomberg
This is dead serious. Bursting Dams and collapsing bridges everywhere. Its called infrastructure time bomb about to explode everywhere. Politicians know they can't ignore this any more. No, not any more. Its time to ACT. NOW.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=179&v=Wpzvaqypav8

America’s crumbling infrastructure: It’s not a sexy problem, but it is a scary one. Connect with Last Week Tonight online... Subscribe to the Last Week Tonig...

09/05/2015

What the world needs now is infrastructure investment
http://intheblack.com/articles/2015/03/02/what-the-world-needs-now-is-infrastructure-investment

Experts say the world needs an extra US$57 trillion of infrastructure investments. But just where should that money go?

09/05/2015

Why is it so hard to plan for infrastructure?
http://intheblack.com/articles/2014/08/13/why-is-it-so-hard-to-plan-for-infrastructure

When it comes to development, innovation often loses out to crowd-pleasing projects.

25/04/2015

30 tips for successful academic research and writing
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2012/11/28/lupton-30-tips-writing/

Choosing something that you are passionately interested in to research is a great first step on the road to successful academic writing but it can be difficult to keep the momentum going. Deborah L...

13/04/2015

The Infrastructure 100: World Markets Report

https://www.kpmg.com/Global/en/IssuesAndInsights/ArticlesPublications/infra100-world-markets/Documents/infrastructure-100-world-markets-report-v3.pdf

13/04/2015

Stay tuned for Megaprojects Delivery & Implementation Advisory

13/04/2015

The Trouble with Megaprojects
BY JACQUES LESLIE
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/bertha-seattle-infrastructure-trouble-megaprojects
My Oxford Professor - Bent Flyvbjerg, & Advisor - Atif Ansar Says it all.
Methinks With Megaprojects delivery, we have not learnt any lessons.

Superlatives are at the heart of the infatuation with huge infrastructure projects, but big isn’t necessarily best.

13/04/2015

The New Yorker on Megaprojects, by Jacques Leslie

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/new-yorker-trouble-megaprojects-jacques-leslie-bent-flyvbjerg?trk=hb_ntf_MEGAPHONE_ARTICLE_POST

Until last Monday, when engineers began hoisting its two-thousand-ton cutterhead to the surface, Bertha, the world’s largest tunnel-boring machine, was stuck a hundred and twenty feet below the streets of Seattle, too damaged to move far forward and incapable of going in reverse. The machine, which…

13/04/2015

Re-rooting the Study & Practice of Mergers & Acquisitions – Bridging Strategic, Financial & Sociocultural Perspectives
http://www.europeanfinancialreview.com/?p=43

Despite decades of experience and research, many results in M&A research remain contested and inconclusive. M&A scholars have voiced concerns as to this state of affairs, lamenting the lack of integrative perspectives and theories on M&A. Below, David Faulkner, Satu Teerikangas and Richard J. Joseph…

13/04/2015

Different Types of Mergers and Acquisitions
http://www.europeanfinancialreview.com/?p=497