executive sponsorship

Discover how Kerry Ingredients, a company that reaches 1.2 billion people daily, transformed its operations and won an Uptime Award. Roger Ham and Muhammad Yusuf Bin Nazman reveal their secret to success: a people-first strategy that secured executive sponsorship and empowered a global team to move from a reactive culture to a proactive one.

Reliability Radio EP 304: Tom Woginrich, IBM

Value realization, use this to prove value to executives.

Reliability Radio EP 301: Kendra Mock & Jon Cameron, CRL-Black Belts, JLL

Listen to this podcast where we have a chat with Kendra Mock and Jon Cameron on their reliability journey to becoming CRL black belts to help you chart your own course towards CRL certification and beyond.

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tales from the shop

The Support Needed to Launch, Maintain and Improve Your Reliability Strategy!

Eric Ayanegui

Tommy Cocanougher

The need for executive sponsorship when launching, maintaining and improving an effective reliability strategy is paramount. See the difference in this Tale from the Shop.

Understand Your Audience: How to explain the need for reliability in your company.

When it breaks we are the heroes who come in to fix it quickly and cheaply then go away until it breaks again. Getting both the executives and the staff to focus on 'Don't Just Fix It; Improve it' approach takes different strategies.

Selling Reliability – ROI & ROC

Victor Rioli

Anyone trying to champion reliability in industry has experienced difficulty with obtaining funding from executive management for reliability improvement, regardless if requested from capital expense (CAPEX) or operating expense (OPEX) accounts.

Making the Business Case for New Maintenance and Reliability Technology Investments

Caught up in the throes of day-to-day existence, the difficult place to be is in the lap of another after-action root-cause failure analysis, a budget review meeting or shutdown/turnaround when your organization is trying to make step-function gains and improvements in maintenance and reliability performance.

Selling Reliability? ROI and ROC

work execution management

I’ve been stressing for years that if you want to secure funding for a reliability program, you must be able to fluently speak in finance.

Show Me The Money! Key Approaches for Forecasting Capital and O&M Needs

work execution management

All facilities and infrastructure assets deteriorate with time and use. To maintain the effectiveness and value of an asset, renewal work should be performed periodically, and when the asset has reached the end of its functional useful life, it should be replaced.

Executive Sponsorship through Process Reliability

asset condition management

Even if you have good executive sponsorship, advancing that sponsorship can dramatically increase the results you achieve.

Designing, Building, and Rebuilding Your ACM

Working under the authorization, commissioning, and funding from your committed executive sponsor can yield advancements not available without it

Reliability Radio EP 277: Angela Santiago, The Little Potato Company

As the CEO of The Little Potato Company, Angela Santiago explains why she looks first for 3 things in her plants.

I Need Reliability, but How Do I Talk to My Senior Leaders?

Not managing your assets to deliver true reliability? How do you get started and get Senior Leaders engaged in the effort?

Reliability Saves It All

Safety, quality, and productivity are bound together by one common thread — Reliability.

The Toyota Engagement Equation

Are you managing your problems or are they managing you?

Roadmap to Effective Bottom Up Leadership

Reliability systems and standards rely heavily on executive sponsorship to drive change throughout an organization. However, the reality is that executive leaders have limited bandwidth and will not always be the initial drivers of change. “Bottom up leadership” can effect meaningful change, but what are the most important elements of effective “bottom-up leadership?”

Reliability: Essential for a Safe, Cost Effective, Environmentally Friendly Operation

CEO’s always name safety as a top priority. If they truly believed that, they would be active sponsors of the corporations reliability effort. If you believe in safety, you must believe in reliability.

Executive Sponsorship in Making Asset Management Programs Successful: The City of Atlanta

The City of Atlanta Department of Watershed Management (DWM) is currently preparing to launch a comprehensive 5-year asset management implementation plan (AMIP) using a steering committee comprised of cross-departmental DWM leadership and managers – a critical success factor in realizing the expected benefits of significant multi-year investment.

How to Get the Bean Counters to Approve Your Project!