Capital Project Performance Engagements

Reducing the risk of cost overruns, delays, and high-stakes project failure.

Our Approach

From major transit builds to multi-year energy developments, capital projects demand flawless coordination across thousands of moving parts — EPCs, subcontractors, stakeholders — all under immense pressure and with little room for error.

JMW has supported over 100 major capital projects worldwide, partnering with CEOs and project leaders to keep multi-billion-dollar initiatives on track. For more than 40 years, we’ve helped align leadership, strengthen accountability across the supply chain, and build a culture of trust and ownership that drives delivery.

The result? Projects that stay on schedule, within budget, and in scope — with clear control, smooth handovers, real-time risk visibility, and transparent reporting.

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Challenges We Solve

Slipping Schedule, Rising Costs

Deadlines are missed, costs are climbing, and confidence is wavering. We drive the recovery —realigning leadership and regaining control before early setbacks become full-scale delivery failures.

Preventing Early Misalignment

At project startup, hundreds of people, systems, and cultures are thrown together — often without a shared way of working. We help establish clarity, trust, and coordination so the team performs from day one.

Supplier Performance Breakdown

Critical partners are behind, unresponsive, or creating downstream chaos. We bring accountability and urgency to the supply chain — cutting through noise to get progress moving again.

Our Work in Action

From Crisis to Confidence: Rescuing a $25B Rail Project
How decisive intervention prevented $1.5B in cost overruns and reset a critical rail initiative

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“We know that at least half of the factors that make a project successful don’t relate to technical content, they relate to human behavior. JMW has a very deep understanding of how to coach project management teams to achieve extraordinary results.”

— Former EVP of Development, Global EPC Company

“The project was heading toward an almost certain future of exceeding the schedule by approximately a year. The reversal from an adversarial mindset to a collaborative approach wouldn’t have been achieved without JMW. By improving the fundamental elements of collaboration, we ultimately managed to meet the predicted end date. JMW played a crucial role in achieving the project milestones.”

— Former Executive Project Director, Global Fortune 100 Energy Leader

“The project experience was spectacularly aspirational and profound. It allowed people to think about challenges in a very different way. The reality is that other consulting companies work a process, or bring tools, but this proves superficial when it comes to real intent, real commitment, and behavior change. JMW understands this.”

— Former Head of Technology, Multinational Oil and Gas Company

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