In my article, “Build Organizational Capacity and Capability – For Free”, I listed several root-causes for training and education programs reaching a “stall speed” and a detailed approach for avoiding it. Among the root-causes listed were; time, expense, work/learning balance, scalability, retention rate, and atrophy.
But there is considerable risk to the program even prior to its launch, and that involves the creation of a proper curriculum and learning environment. Continue reading
A Question & Answer Period with Fred Schenkelberg and James Kovacevic on what can be done with your data and analysis.
Data and the analyses that use the data can be tricky to manage at best, let along extremely difficult.
In this last post of the series on using the maintenance data you have, Fred and James will answer many of the common questions asked about data and the analyses. Continue reading
As very young children, we had an instinctive need to be very close to our parents – feeling a great deal of anxiety, even a sense of abandonment, if they were not within our sight. As we grew older – and whether it was geographically, intellectually, or psychologically – we would become more comfortable with greater distances from what we felt were our basic truths, but almost always as stepping stones and rarely great leaps. Continue reading
Here’s a question I like to ask my consulting clients. When you make business changes, are they coming at you from the outside in or inside out? At first, it seems like a trick question, but there is some good logic behind it. Your answer can reveal a lot about your preparedness for the future. In other words, whether you’re anticipatory or reactionary. Continue reading
The date is September 15, 2008. The crisis in subprime mortgages had been going on for a little over a year. It was triggered in the last half of 2006 when house prices began to fall as the housing bubble in the United States burst. This caused those who had taken NINJA (No Income, No Job, or Assets) loans to buy their home, with the expectation that prices were going to increase five per-cent year on year forever, to default. This accelerated the decline in home prices which, in turn, accelerated the number of defaults – a financial and economic death spiral had formed. Continue reading