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ABOUT

Edward Abramowich

Founder & Principal Consultant, Straits Consulting — helping energy majors, national oil companies and large asset owners deliver capital projects faster, with value in the owner's hands sooner.

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BACKGROUND

Thirty years turning disruption into delivery.

Edward Abramowich is the founder and Principal Consultant of Straits Consulting and the author of Rethinking Capital Project Delivery: Agentic AI-Driven Strategies for the New Era, with a foreword by Dr. Jeff Sutherland, co-creator of Scrum. Over more than 30 years he has led lean and capital project delivery across energy, oil & gas, aerospace, automotive and high-tech — including major lean deployments spanning Shell's upstream, downstream and mega-capital projects. He advises energy majors, national oil companies, large asset owners and top-tier management consulting firms across the Middle East and Asia on outcome-driven, AI-enabled delivery. A best-selling author who has lived and worked in twelve countries, Edward helps leadership teams turn AI-driven disruption into faster, more certain delivery.

THE JOURNEY

From the factory floor to AI-driven delivery.

Factory floors in Japan

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Lean manufacturing & enterprise

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Agile

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Lean construction & megaprojects

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AI-driven capital project delivery

RECOGNITION

Trusted at the leading edge of the field.

Best-selling author

Rethinking Capital Project Delivery, foreword by Dr. Jeff Sutherland, co-creator of Scrum.

Advisor to industry leaders

Advises energy majors, NOCs, large asset owners and top-tier management consulting firms.

Published thought leadership

Co-author of a 2026 BCG article on capital project delivery.

THE PLAYBOOK

Rethinking Capital Project Delivery

Agentic AI-Driven Strategies for the New Era · Foreword by Dr. Jeff Sutherland.

The playbook behind the method — outcome-driven delivery, AI as accelerator, the adaptive operating model, and real capital-project case studies.

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Let's start with a short conversation.

WORK WITH EDWARD

A focused 30-minute executive briefing — mapped to your portfolio, not a generic talk. No sensitive project details required.

Think big. Start small. Learn fast.

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