Posts by Paul McNamara

You Can’t Win the Race When You’re Still Running on Spreadsheets You’re in a race — to accelerate time-to-market, cut costs, and deliver complex products with less room for error and delay than ever before. And yet… your lab is still trying to coordinate its schedule — across millions of dollars in test assets and…

How governance, operating rhythm, and intentional alignment unlock the lab’s strategic potential — powered by Scireo Aligning Lab Management with Enterprise Intentions You can hit every deadline, clear every backlog, and still fall behind. That’s the trap many lab managers are in: working harder on tasks while being blind to strategy. A lab might deliver…

Why Delays Matter More Than You Think Every engineering program is a network of interdependent people, equipment, and milestones. Testing sits at the center of that network — it connects design engineers who need results, program managers tracking milestones, equipment that must be ready, and customers waiting for delivery. When a test slips, even by…

Why Internal Labs Lose Work Internal labs don’t always lose because they’re bad at testing. In fact, many are world-class in capability. They lose in specific markets — like EMI or Environmental — where external labs exist as a viable alternative. When that happens, the reasons are predictable: Perceived higher cost: Business leaders assume external…

Being competitive doesn’t simply mean faster time to market and better products.  It also means employing asset management strategies that are sustainable. Achieving success in such big endeavors must be a team effort requiring all hands on deck. Company asset management teams and their management are uniquely positioned to play a big role in helping…

Industrial revolutions are triggered by the introduction of new tools.  Companies that learn how to exploit these tools with a comprehensive capital structure strategy win.  Those who do it first dominate.  Companies that are engaged in “transformation” efforts must be focused on transforming the totality of their capital structures – not just their capital equipment…

Test Resource Management (TRM) is an award-winning software and services suite used by companies with complex, asset-intensive operations and demanding competitive requirements for better than incremental improvements to speed, agility, and cost-effectiveness. The same old solutions won’t work. This is where Scireo TRM comes in to help transform your business. The Results with Test Resource…

New competitive requirements for speed and efficiency are driving companies to rethink the way they operate to avoid existential threats. In a moment of similar significance, the Oakland A’s baseball team needed a new, more competitive, and transformative strategy. The strategy they invented, dubbed “Moneyball”, succeeded wildly in outperforming traditional management approaches producing results 500%…

People operating with a “chief” mindset are capable of seeing the world differently and more powerfully.  They can escape the cultural biases that get people stuck in habitual ways of thinking.  They act from first principles, not their gut.  Elon Musk claims that those operating in a “chief” mindset must understand the requirements of every…

Chances are if you’ve worked around product test for a while, you already know the one bad habit that sets test teams back the most. Hoarding!  Hoarding of equipment, labor, support services, and knowledge.  Equipment hoarding leads to: Ultra-low utilization of equipment, 10% to 20% instead of 60% plus Wasted Acquisition budgets, 25% to 50%…