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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

Building a Reliability Culture

Laying The Groundwork for a Successful Change.

It turns out that you have been deploying the right reliability tools and maintenance practices, but the organization’s culture was preventing or hampering the results. This is a common scene played out in many organizations, but there is hope. The culture change will be a long road, as cultures are not changed overnight.

In the previous article we covered the warning signs of a culture that may be impeding your reliability efforts. If you have determined that your culture is impeding your effort, there are some […]

By James Kovacevic|2019-04-19T15:50:02-04:00May 9th, 2016|Change Management, Organizational Management|Comments Off

Red Alert: Your Culture Is Hurting Your Reliability Efforts

The Warning Signs That You Need a Culture Change

Imagine working within (or maybe you don’t need to imagine it) an organization in which everything is completely reactive. You arrive early to try and organize the work for the day, yet only to find out someone else is there doing it.

During the course of the day, there are multiple failures and all are followed with “I told John that was making noise a few days ago.” You inquire if the operator submitted a work request and you receive the response “That’s maintenance’s job”.

Unfortunately, this a […]

By James Kovacevic|2019-04-19T15:50:03-04:00May 2nd, 2016|Change Management, Organizational Management, People, Roles & Responsibilities|Comments Off

A 2 Step Process to Improve Plant Performance

A Simple Q&A Can Reap Improved Performance in Any Activity in Maintenance.

2 Up 2 Down A failure has just occurred on a critical asset in your facility. The result was 2 hours of lost production, but it could have been worse. The last time that the equipment failure occurred it took 5 hours to repair. Why was the failure repaired in less than half the time than the previous occurrence? How can we ensure that we learn from this failure and the team’s performance to improve the plant performance?

I remember reading about a […]

By James Kovacevic|2019-04-19T15:50:03-04:00April 18th, 2016|Continuous Improvement, Defect Elimination, Organizational Management, Performance Management, Teamwork|1 Comment