LFH consulting

LFH has designed a series of consulting services that help organizations find innovative solutions and shape initiatives by drawing on historical paradigms and scenarios, and combining these with contemporary practices, lessons, and solutions. Services are often adapted or customized to meet the needs of organizations. For example, we can provide services that assist organizations establish innovation programs that seed innovation in their projects. LFH draws on a range of historical case studies which have highlighted discoveries in process innovation. For example:

• Colosseum Project 70 CE – The Ancient Romans innovated processes in construction that perfected the vaulted arch. These processes were then combined with new advances in materials (concrete and iron), and construction technologies (cranes and winches). As a result, they could build a vast structure with a relatively unskilled workforce that merely had to replicate a series of arches and combine them into a complex structure.
• Today we often take modular approach to construction that starts with a pilot and then gradually migrates to a project scale-up.

In another example we can establish a lessons learned programs in organizations for projects. This assessment service examine how projects are planned and executed, and then makes recommendations for improvement in line with best practices. This includes reviewing the role of Project Management Office, the business, and stakeholders.

The assessment uses the latest research in white papers and best practices. However, the assessment is unique because it is part of the Lessons-from-History series. It uses a historical case-study database to select projects from the past that had some similar characteristics. The assessment uses these projects to provide fresh insight, and outlooks in how problems were solved and projects were delivered.

“He who fails to plan is planning to fail” Winston Churchill, 1942