Implementing a continuous improvement program is an important step toward increasing productivity. Having your plant manager and executives look at data from your processes hourly gives you greater visibility of performance issues across your operation. This added insight is valuable, but is your team properly interpreting the data in order to know the right course of action for a given problem?
Across the rail industry, shortages in skilled labor and gaps in knowledge management are beginning to affect operations, meaning organizations across the sector are left to navigate structural challenges with respect to safety, operations, morale, and profits. How can you combat these industry-wide trends, improve throughput, and build a culture of efficiency and continuous improvement without adding any resources? It all starts with your people, the front-line workers, supervisors, and folks on the ground where the work gets done.
Over the last decade, the aviation industry has experienced unprecedented growth, leading to major shifts and changes in the way the market has functioned and will function going forward. Since the end of the downturn almost a decade ago, Revenue Passenger Kilometers (RPKs), a common measure of airline performance, has averaged year-on-year growth of over 6% (source: IATA). This growth has been a boon for airlines and is indicative of the overall strength of the global economy. However, with growth comes challenges. One of the most pressing of these challenges for airlines, and adjacent maintenance organizations, is the ongoing struggle to meet labor requirements.
Jon Wylie, President of Global Natural Resources at Proudfoot, and Paul Batten, Vice President of Operations, discuss keeping risk out of projects by having a plan, and working the plan. When safety improves, productivity improves as well. Find out more in this brief, informative video.
Market pressures, new opportunities and organizational drift have compelled you and your leadership team to transform the company. You have laid the groundwork – clarified strategy, identified differentiating capabilities and assessed gaps. Yet you know, both from studies and in your gut, that most transformation efforts fall far short of expectations. For most firms much of their investment in transformation proves wasted.
