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Classic project management methods sidestep the need to collate internal knowledge, facilitate decision making, coordinate the part time involvement of internal resources and engage people with changing ways of working.
In the world of Manufacturing, these are all part of the Project Manager role. A role which includes project leader, change facilitator and internal consultant.
Nowhere is that more important than when managing projects involving digitisation and advanced technology which include actions to:
- Review current "end to end" ways of working to identify how to deliver maximum gain, remove operational pain points and achieve the lowest possible operational life cycle cost from the investment in time and money.
- Implement and refine the new approach to develop the insight to apply it at scale.
- Win over the skeptics, develop the skills and confidence to establish the new approach/technology as part of business as usual.
That involves the planning, organisation and control of workflows to:
- Develop realistic and achievable project scopes for projects involving learning and innovation
- Collate and share knowledge about problems which are not fully understood
- Define tests to validate/commission new assets or processes which have yet to be applied
- Collaborate with outside companies offering unproven but promising solutions
- Establish new working relationships, challenge limiting behaviours and provide a forum for learning about novel solutions to the organisation
- Coach direct reports past the barriers to higher levels of performance.
- Develop the full potential of newly formed operational teams.
It also includes the capture of lessons learned so that knowledge can be readily transferred across projects to support the development of other novel "Use cases".
Delivering this scope depends on the ability of project managers to guide those in project and operational roles through the stages of design, development and delivery.
Something that is at the heart of Manufacturing Project Management best practice, an approach designed to engage stakeholders with new thinking to produce winning specifications and the realistic and achievable plans to deliver them.
Developed based on the practices of well known and award winning organisatons to avoid common manufacturing project pitfalls, deliver better value and achieve higher return on investment.
Find out more by accessing our resouce pages on "delivering better projects faster" or booking onto our Manufacturing Project Management 3 day training workshop.
