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Using Governance & Accountability To Improve

How to Drive Performance Improvements in your Organization

Oftentimes, plans and strategies are developed and implemented. Many times the implementation is handed off and the team left on their own to implement. And many of the times, the implementation fails or the results are not delivered.

Why is this? It is because there is a lack of governance and accountability. These are more than just words. They are a system, process and a sense of ownership throughout the organization to ensure that the plan is implemented and any roadblocks are dealt with.

What is Governance?

Governance can be […]

By James Kovacevic|2019-04-19T15:49:53-04:00December 26th, 2016|Adherence to Standards, Change Management, Coaching, Effective Meetings, Key Performance Indicators, Organizational Management, People, Performance Management, Roles & Responsibilities, Teamwork|Comments Off

What’s Stopping Your Organization from Improving?

A View From the Shop Floor on What is Preventing Improvement

I recently had a very interesting discussion with a craftsman at a large automotive manufacturer. During this discussion, he outlined a few of the issues he saw in his plant, and why they weren’t able to overcome them.

The craftsman indicated that he had been reading my previous posts and that it all made sense. In fact, he stated, ” it is common sense, but we don’t have that here”.

His organization was unable to make the changes in a sustainable manner. I […]

By James Kovacevic|2019-04-19T15:49:57-04:00October 3rd, 2016|Change Management, Lean Maintenance, Operator Asset Care, People, Teamwork, Total Productive Maintenance|Comments Off

How to Sustain the Culture Change

The key to keeping a culture change from going back

One of the reasons that culture changes fail to change and stay that way is because there is nothing put in place to sustain it. When there is no plan to sustain the change, it will be a flavor of the week and revert back to the old ways. This is the final installment of a series on culture change and if you haven’t already, please go to the first post and start there.

So how do you sustain a change once […]

By James Kovacevic|2019-04-19T15:50:02-04:00May 30th, 2016|Change Management, Organizational Management, People|Comments Off

The Actions To Accelerate Your Culture Change

Hit the ground running and embed the culture change to achieve maximum results

Your culture change has a plan, it has the right people in place, and you are ready to roll it out. Your change stands a better chance of success than most change programs as you have a plan with the right people. Sometimes changes fail because the change is not embedded quickly, people lose interest and go back to their old ways. If you haven’t already, please start at the beginning of the series with the warning signs that […]

By James Kovacevic|2019-04-19T15:50:02-04:00May 23rd, 2016|Change Management, Organizational Management, People|Comments Off

Getting the Right People on the Bus and In the Right Seats

A guide to ensuring your department will support your reliability culture

People are the heart of any maintenance reliability program and they have the ability to make the program succeed or fail. This is why managing the change to reliability culture is critical. We covered a few of the key pieces to change management in the previous post . But sometimes, not matter what change management technique(s) you use, the change may not be successful.

Why? You need the right people on the team and in the right positions. In the book […]

By James Kovacevic|2019-04-19T15:50:02-04:00May 16th, 2016|Change Management, Organizational Management, People|Comments Off