Tips on Transformation

Our clients are faced with major transformation needs which they need installed in double quick time. However, speed should never be achieved at the expense of sustainability. At Proudfoot, we deliver quantified sustainable results through three core principles:

1. Our Co-venture" approach which ensures that solutions are co-developed and therefore owned by the organisation

2. People Solutions teams who carry out day to day operational coaching and training at all levels of the organisation

3. A formalised audit and continuous improvement system built around compliance

How your choice of language can unlock the organization through creativity and innovation.

Ever wondered how you can spark and nurture creativity and innovation within your organization?

What if you could? Here's an idea how...

PROBLEM: Many leaders get frustrated by a perceived lack of creative thinking and innovation within their organizations. "Why can't people think outside the box and come up with new ways of looking at things?"

IDEA IN BRIEF: All too often creativity is limited by the language used in response to an idea. Saying, "How is that going to work?" automatically puts the other party on the defense. Instead, try saying, "That's a really interesting idea. Come back to me with three options that demonstrate how this can be made a reality."

How creating an optimal workflow for people, materials, and blasted material can improve safety and productivity.

Ever wondered if there was a way to model and optimize workflow between surface and workplace during the pre and feasibility phases of mine design? This would lay the foundation for an intrinsic resource optimization model during the mine’s life.

What if you could? Here’s an idea how...

PROBLEM: Many underground mines have attempted to optimize workflows. The consequence is that they tend to try to conflate outdated designs with the technology of the present and future – like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole.

IDEA IN BRIEF: What if you could utilize proven logistics modelling expertise from other sectors to create sophisticated workflow models? This could influence infrastructure design and equipment selection to ensure superior, safe, and productive operations for the life of the mine.

How creating an effective, mutually beneficial process for flexi-working can reduce dead time in full-time rostering models.

Ever wondered if there was a way to tap into the temporary workforce more effectively with a flexible model of engagement and rostering to improve productivity and reduce cost?

What if you could? Here is an idea how...

PROBLEM: In many hospitality businesses, the traditional rostering models lock in staff for full shifts. Consequently, this is wasteful for very short-cycle businesses with hour-by-hour demand peaks and dramatically reduces the pool of available talent in the community.

IDEA IN BRIEF: What if you developed a flexi-rostering model to match peak demands with available flexi-time skilled resources, linking rostering systems to a mobile talent availability App?

How joint, cross-company career development can solve your skills shortage and retention problem.

Ever wondered if there was a way to multiply your community talent pool to benefit your population and all the businesses in your community?

What if you could? Here’s an idea how….

PROBLEM: In many communities, labor shortages are stifling business performance. HR departments struggle to recruit and retain people.

IDEA IN BRIEF: What if you created a community-wide skills development program that rotated people through each business, while they learn the trades and roles at multiple companies, pursuing community careers while getting promoted to their next role?

How being transparent regarding excess MRO stock can help diminished inventory levels and reduce delays in aircraft maintenance by others with matching stock shortages.

Ever wondered if there was a way to share stock information to help ease shortages of long lead-time items or those in scarce supply?

What if you could? Here's an idea how...

PROBLEM: In many MROs, especially those servicing older fleets, partial shortages are having a critical effect on airline performance.

IDEA IN BRIEF: What if you developed an industry-wide "parts matching platform" that enabled excess stock to be matched to demand requests?

How creating an agreed referential across your company can improve your actions and business activity by aligning the data from the production line to the finance department.

Ever wondered if there was a way to have one dashboard that you and your population agree on?

What if you could? Here's an idea how...

PROBLEM: In many industries from a production point of view, the financial KPIs are not aligned with the reality on the floor. Finance and Production departments struggle to agree on the right figures, particularly for KPIs in a manufacturing environment.

IDEA IN BRIEF: What if you developed a unique, referential, one-data development program that generates clear visibility on your dashboard and is directly linked to your financial results, providing the right leverage at the right time?

How reclaiming control over your asset reliability can keep down costs and drive maintenance excellence.

Ever wondered if you could maintain the advantages of outsourcing your asset maintenance while more efficiently controlling costs and improving your fleet’s reliability?

What if you could? Here's an idea how...

PROBLEM: Many asset owners rely so heavily on third-party MROs that they are effectively outsourcing the responsibility of their own asset’s reliability. Going as far as outsourcing the analysis and oversight of their maintenance departments, it’s easy to lose control over assets with such “zero touch labor.” While third-party contracts attempt to control costs and ”share the pain” of operational impacts, many outsourcing agreements can actually incentivize the wrong behaviors in suppliers, and none can substitute for taking control of your own fleet.

IDEA IN BRIEF: Strategically insourcing functions like warranty management, maintenance planning, reliability engineering, and work scoping or configuration can help you balance cost-effective maintenance with ownership of your asset reliability

CONTINUOUS: The secret to success is perseverance and grit. Engaging people at all levels is not a one time or occasional thing, it is an all time thing. A continuous engaged workforce is more likely to actively look for opportunities to improve performance and these small, multiple and continuous improvements add up to a real game changer. This is the building blocks and incubator in creating safe and innovative organizations. The continuous improvement journey provides the opportunity "retries" which can lead to tipping point innovation.

PRACTICAL: Getting the basics right and executing the basics flawlessly is the first step on an organization's innovation journey. Glossy gadgets and sexy technology are only innovative when it improves performance.

FRUGAL: This is the absence of waste and irrelevance. Real innovation improves safety, reduce waste and improve performance. Caveat emptor when you come across someone trying to find an application for an innovative idea.

INNOVATION: Potentially one of the most powerful forces known to us. It can safe and improve lives, disrupt entire industries and change our paradigms on how we see the world when cultivated and harvested appropriately. Continuous, practical and frugal innovation is worth pursuing with a measure of passion and bountiful, single minded determination.