McKinsey have discussed suicide rates in construction previously, as well as other difficulties the industry is facing.
This is an established methodology for handling workplace organisation, which breaks the master planning process down into five steps: sort, set in order, shine, standardise and sustain.. At each stage we determine the appropriate level of detail (resolution) at which to visualise and model, depending on whether we are looking at the whole site or a single unit or process, for example.. We present the options or solutions and our evaluation back to the client and agree whether there are further options to be considered or whether the existing options need to be adjusted.Once an agreed set of options has been identified and developed, we finalise our evaluation, develop recommendations and an output which is a clear and compelling presentation of the findings, and possible next steps.
We focus on ensuring that the output: meets the business’s needs; is cost effective and robust, but also flexible and adaptable, and; is practical to implement (for example: along with the usual constraints of time and budget, we may well need to work around keeping current processes fully operational while we effect any changes).. It’s important to state that this is not Bryden Wood dictating the master planning solution to the client.This remains a collaborative process.What we are doing at this stage is offering a range of best possible options, to allow the client to decide for themselves the approach they want to follow.
This decision is rightly theirs – based as it may be on future flexibility, their assessment of market direction or, not unusually, on commercial considerations that they may not want to share with us.But it is important that we can demonstrate that the analysis leading to this point is robust and that we have properly considered every angle.
This is also a benefit when there are any late entrants to the discussion, to assure them that the analysis and enquiry have been thorough and rigorous.. Case study: an extensive pharmaceutical manufacturing site.
In one recent project, we worked on the quality assurance (QA) elements of our client’s operation.Now, Marks says, everything is changing.
That sort of behaviour and thought process isn’t really acceptable anymore.The owners want transparency.
They want certainty around the data.She believes the heart of this may come from the fact that “data is the new oil, the new currency.”.