Office on Centers and
Networks of Excellence

 

COOPE/UFRJ

 

Português

 

 

 

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Objective

The objective of ECENTEX/COPPE/UFRJ is to contribute to the Brazilian development mainly through the application, dissemination and improvement of the methodology developed within the partnership between COPPE and Petrobras to establish and develop Vanguard Centers and Networks.

The Office on Centers and Networks of Excellence -
ECENTEX

To assist Petrobras in the establishment of new centers of excellence and to develop and disseminate the methodology, Petrobras is supporting the Office on Centers and Networks of Excellence of COPPE (ECENTEX) and contemplates the establishment of other similar spaces and it has already structured a new one together with the Federal University of Bahia. Presently, Petrobras and COPPE consider the amplification of ECENTEX’s scope in order to include Organization and Management

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Examples of Centers of Excellence in the World

Different big enterprises, governmental organizations or the government itself of a country have chosen centers of excellence as a form of improving management and reach vanguard. Two examples of big enterprises, Airbus and IBM, a government initiative (CERT in Dubai) and the practice of the British Government to improve public service are presented. Links to the respective sites are included

A Model of National Development

The objective of installing Centers of Excellence is directly connected with the concern regarding National Development.

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Studies on the pre-salt:

The Space Centers and Networks of Excellence is developing together with the OSCIP Economy and Energy - e&e Organization a series of studies about the pre-salt theme and its relevance to the development of the country. The fundamental present question: the legal framework of oil and gas is amply discussed.

1) Commodity, Pre-Salt and Development

2) Brazil, the Crisis and Pre-Salt Oil

3)Brazil, the Crisis and the Pre-Salt Petroleum

 

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since 26/12/2011

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Some Centers of Excellence sites created with the support of ECENTEX in the last years

Center of Excellence of the Maré Olympic  Village

The Center of Excellence of the Maré Olympic Village is a pioneer application of the centers and network centers methodology in the social area that had the support of the Rio de Janeiro and Petrópolis Municipal Administration.

 Center of Excellence for the Brazilian Sea

The area under the responsibility of Cembra – the Brazilian Sea– has been lately denominated “Blue Amazon”, and it refers to the oceanic region under the Brazilian jurisdiction, according to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea

 Cembra meeting

Center of Excellence  in Engineering, Procurement and Construction CE-EPC

The objective of the CE-EPC is to gather and achieve potentiality of the efforts made by the enterprises and entities that common interests in order to develop actions aiming at increasing productivity of the Brazilian industry regarding the EPC chain and consequently increase their participation in the investment projects of the oil and gas companies operating in Brazil and abroad on a competitive and sustainable basis

Only in Portuguese

New Booklet on Vanguard Centers and Network (only in Portuguese)

The booklet on Vanguard Organisms (version of August 29, 2011) extends the methodology regarding the creation of centers of excellence and networks (previous booklet), including now all types of forefront enterprises. It amplifies as well the fundaments of this methodology.
 

 

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Strategic Plan: Management Networks of  Petrobras Suppliers Network (only in Portuguese)

ECENTEX has been participating in the important work "Network of Management Advance of Petrobras’ Suppliers Network". The  tasks carried out in 2010 culminated in the edition of the book that can be seen in this site (click here). The main objective of the work is to substantially increase the national content of its investments in products, processes and services of international quality and prices so that the national industry in this segment will be subsequently competitive abroad. Negotiations are under way to launch the 12 Programs and 65 Projects defined by dozens of participating entities. As it will be verified in the mentioned text, an ample and modern network that will support the process is being organized

Historical Texts

Gathers texts about the conception process of centers or networks of vanguard or excellence.