INDUSTRY INSIGHTS
Industry insights, operational perspectives and industry commentary from the SPM team on infrastructure, maintenance, logistics, project execution and the realities shaping industrial environments.
Africa’s Infrastructure Challenge Is Not Only Capacity. It Is Discipline
Southern Power Maintenance CEO, Mvuyo Tyobeka, argues that Africa’s infrastructure challenge is not defined by capacity alone, but by the discipline with which projects are planned, governed, and executed. In this Engineering News article, he examines why delivery...
When Planning Ambiguity Becomes an Operational Problem
By Maria Mothibeli, Head of Operations at SPM Many operational failures are blamed on execution when the real problem started long before a team ever arrived on site. By the time a project begins slipping, the issue is often already embedded in the way the work was...
8 Questions That Reveal What the Client Is Really Deciding
By Sales Team: SPM Not every decision is stated clearly. In many projects, what is written in the scope and what is actually being decided are not the same thing. A client may say they are evaluating technical capability, pricing, or timelines. That is...
