Operational optimisation
Are the tasks you and your co-workers undertake to get the job done the most effective way to achieve your desired outcomes? Do you know what your team or organisation is ultimately trying to achieve, and is that aligned to the goals of the broader business? In most work places we go about doing the tasks we’ve always undertaken to get a particular job done. We can see isolated tasks rather than integrated systems. Often over time there are subtle changes to the inputs or desired outputs of our work efforts, or of the greater system. We turn up to work and, to the best of our ability get the job done. What once may have been optimised workflows may now be inefficient. Or what our team is producing may not be exactly what other business units’ desire. Operations can be optimised via developing an understanding of the processes that are currently undertaken and then assessing the effectiveness of those processes in achieving the desired outcome(/s). Thus enabling opportunities for improvement to be recognised and actions put in place to achieve that improvement. .
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Process mapping is a powerful tool for optimising workflows, while providing a documented benchmark from which to audit your operations and ensure your workflows evolve and maintain alignment with your business objectives in to the future. In the mining environment, usually as operations look to explain unexpected performance, there has been a move towards entire operation reconciliation and improvement. This is commonly achieved via process mapping. At Geko-Co Pty Ltd we believe if your workplace involves multiple processes, undertaking a process mapping exercise can be a powerful management tool to help ensure optimal use of resources to achieve maximum business value.
