Insights from Delivery
Ideas shaped by delivery. Evidence drawn from practice.
Growth and commercial readiness for SMEs
Growth can weaken a business before the first larger contract has finished delivering. The order book expands, the customer becomes more demanding and the team starts committing money and people against work whose commercial conditions have changed. Revenue may be rising while the business becomes less able to absorb a delayed payment, a disputed instruction…
Reindustrialisation needs an order book
Issue 10 examines how credible order books turn UK industrial ambition into investable work across infrastructure, energy, defence and nuclear.
What Do Nuclear, Hydrogen, Oil and Gas, Carbon Capture, Maritime Operations and Infrastructure Have in Common?
And why Aberdeen should be at the centre of the technology revolution What do nuclear, hydrogen, oil and gas, carbon capture, maritime operations and infrastructure have in common? Far more than the way we usually discuss them would suggest. They are commonly treated as separate sectors, each with its own policies, institutions, investors, supply chains…
Who carries the cost of strategic ambition?
Who Carries the Cost of Strategic Ambition? | MBY
Can strategic delivery become repeatable?
STRATEGIC INDUSTRIES BRIEFING Issue 03 | 11 August 2026 Strategic industries do not need isolated successes. They need delivery models that can perform again, at greater scale and under different conditions. That challenge is visible across this week's developments. Gatwick has moved beyond a major legal obstacle, but must now convert consent into controlled execution…
Can the UK secure the capacity its ambitions now demand?
STRATEGIC INDUSTRIES BRIEFING Issue 02 | 4 August 2026 REMEMBERING SIR IAN WOOD Before turning to this week's developments, we want to acknowledge the passing of Sir Ian Wood, one of the defining figures in the history of the North Sea and modern Aberdeen. His leadership helped transform a family business into a global energy…