Process Management – Category 6

The Process Management category examines how a company designs its work systems and how it designs, manages and improves its key processes for implementing those work systems to deliver customer value and achieve organizational success and sustainability. Also examined is a company’s readiness for emergencies.

At D.J. Simmons, process excellence boils down to examining everything with an eye to doing the job even better. In fact, doing the job better is what the journey to performance excellence is really all about!

The diagram below is a visual portrayal of this discipline in action.

There are six key work processes at D.J. Simmons. They also generally run in sequence. The processes are:

1. Finding oil and natural gas (Geologic function)
2. Gaining Access (Leasing and Permitting functions)
3. Financing (relying on internal and/or external sources including project partners)
4. Developing (Engineering, Drilling, Permitting and Reporting functions. “Proving-up” reserves.)
5. Operating (Well Management Services; delivery of oil and natural gas products to wholesale buyers; providing return on investment to project partners and/or working interest owners)
6. Exiting – (Done as a last resort upon a well’s full economic depletion)

Simmons’ management has identified one or more specific key requirements that are associated with each of the key processes. These key requirements also give rise to the performance metrics that form the basis of performance measurement in Category 7 – Results.