Professional Mission and Bio

Richard Lamb’s mission is to help start the new age of achievable competitiveness by mentoring individuals and organizations to bring their operating processes to be fully data-driven—defined as harnessing operational data to augment the experience and judgement of domain operatives, managers and experts as they plan, organize, conduct and control their processes.

Accordingly, Richard mentors, teaches and joins projects as necessary to disperse the following knowledge, practices and skills of data-drivenness:

• Range of “insight deliverables” and the interpretation of them for augmenting experience and judgement—table- and visualization-based intelligence, and machine-learning/artificial-intelligence-based analytics.
• Assessment and recharting of existing processes to incorporate the insight deliverables.
• Software of insight deliverables and data preparation, and the skills to engage the software in the recharted process.
• Project plan upon the design basis of accomplishing a “critical-mass” data-driven capability—defined as the threshold set of software and upped-skills that must be in place for an operational process to be fully, effectively and efficiently data-driven.

The mission shares the outcome of Richard’s personal new-age strategy to learn and weave intelligence and applied statistics into his acumen of almost 40 years as an adviser in business strategy, finance and operations; preceded by 6 years as a manager of complex civil engineering projects.

Richard is a Certified Public Accountant, Registered Professional Engineer and Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. He has published two books presenting new ideas for reliability and maintenance management framed in business strategy: Availability Engineering and Management for Manufacturing Plant Performance, and Maintenance Reinvented for Business Performance. He has a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering, Bachelor of Business Administration and Master of Business Administration from the University of Houston and a graduate-level Applied Statistics Certificate from the Texas A&M University, Department of Statistics.