Successful Major Industrial Programs
Making major industrial programs a success
Managing large-scale programs efficiently to guarantee their profitability
Methods and tools designed to ensure the success of industrial programs
The term major industrial program is used to describe the development of a complex system or product (satellites, aircrafts, nuclear power plants, etc.) for government or private-sector clients. These developments combine technological breakthroughs, complex ecosystems (partnerships, JVs, subcontractors) and long timeframes (often around ten years). In fact, meeting the deadlines and managing the budgets for these programs is a real challenge for manufacturers. Avencore has developed a suite of tools and methods dedicated to diagnosing and turning around major programs.
Measuring to decide
The large number of stakeholders and interfaces involved, as well as the changing industrial assumptions (technical constraints and deadlines), make managing major programs a complex task. Even though they are equipped with a wealth of indicators and extensive routines, industrial departments often find it difficult to accurately represent the health of an industrial program in an intelligible and reliable way. Deploying reliable and robust metrics is the first lever that Avencore experts activate. Key success factors: Opt for minimalist dashboards and limit the monitoring of each milestone to one single indicator.
Provoke and promote quick wins
In addition to deploying efficient management systems, Avencore also offers to implement solutions by immersing teams in them. Our consultants assist teams on a daily basis, from leading business routines to participating in the executive committees of the programs. Our goal: to provoke and promote quick wins through task forces led directly by top management.
Involve the contractors
Turning around a major program requires the involvement of the contractors. Although it is often limited to a contractual relationship, involving the contractors in the resolution of technical, planning and budgetary challenges can be highly beneficial. The challenge is then to create the conditions for transparency and flexibility to make the contractors aware of the constraints of the programs and therefore help them to reach win-win decisions.
For 15 years, we have sought to maximize our impact on the companies we advise by providing them with our depth of analysis, our ability to extract value from data, our multi-sector benchmarks, and our expertise in complex industrial products, systems, and organizations.
“Our role is to translate complex situations into simple terms in order to align all the internal and external players with the best solution.”