How We Help
How Conscious Asset can help
How Conscious Asset can help
You may know what needs to improve without knowing exactly what kind of help to ask for.
These five areas show where Conscious Asset can help and the capabilities that may be brought together around the situation.
The work does not always fit neatly into one category. A capability can support more than one situation, and an engagement may cross more than one area.
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Understand What’s Getting in the Way
When performance is not where it needs to be, but the causes or priorities are unclear.
Conscious Asset helps establish what is happening, why it is happening, what matters most, and where attention should go first.
The aim is to give leaders a sound basis for deciding what to change before committing to a solution.
Capabilities may include
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Diagnostic assessments
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Maintenance analytics
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Executive and management advisory where diagnosis and prioritization are the immediate need
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Improve Reliability & Maintenance Performance
When reliability or maintenance performance needs to improve, but the problem reaches beyond one isolated issue.
Conscious Asset helps strengthen the strategies, work processes, maintenance programs, information, and supporting systems behind reliable operational performance.
Capabilities may include
Maintenance analytics may also support the work where data is needed to understand patterns or validate priorities.
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Reliability improvement strategy and roadmaps
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Maintenance Work Management
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Reliability-Centered Maintenance / RCM-R
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Maintenance program optimization
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MRO, materials, and supply-chain improvement
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EAM/CMMS advisory
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Maintenance analytics
The work may begin with one specific problem or with a broader need to improve how reliability and maintenance work together.
The work may begin with one specific problem or with a broader need to improve how reliability and maintenance work together.
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Prepare Operations to Perform
When a new operation, expansion, restart, or major change needs to be ready before performance depends on it.
Operational Readiness is about identifying and closing readiness gaps before they become operating problems.
Conscious Asset helps make sure the people, processes, maintenance programs, materials, systems, and information required by the operation are in place when they are needed.
Capabilities may include
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RCM-R / maintenance program development
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MRO and materials
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EAM/CMMS
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Work management
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Training and capability development
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Implementation support
The need is different from improving an operation that is already running: the aim is to prevent avoidable problems before startup, expansion, restart, or major change.
The need is different from improving an operation that is already running: the aim is to prevent avoidable problems before startup, expansion, restart, or major change.
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Build Capability & Sustain Improvement
When the organization knows what needs to change, but making it happen and making it last is the challenge.
Conscious Asset helps build the knowledge, behaviors, implementation capability, and management discipline needed to turn improvement into normal practice.
The goal is not long-term dependence on outside support. It is to leave the organization better able to sustain and continue improving the results itself.
Capabilities may include
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Organizational change and implementation support
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Training
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Workshops and facilitation
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Capability development
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Assessments and certification
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RCM-R capability development where relevant
Looking for structured learning? Explore Online Training
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Strengthen Management & Decision-Making
When operational performance has become a management issue, not just a technical one.
Conscious Asset helps leadership connect what is happening in the operation with the information, accountability, business priorities, risk, and decisions needed to manage performance well.
This can include executive and management advisory, particularly where leaders need a clearer view of what is happening, what matters, and what action should follow.
Management systems are also a developing area of the work.
CURRENT CAPABILITY
Executive and management advisory
DEVELOPING CAPABILITY
Management Operating Systems / management systems
EMERGING DIRECTION
Operational risk and governance advisory
The Work Connects
The work can cross more than one area
A reliability problem may also involve work management, information systems, leadership, materials, or internal capability.
An Operational Readiness engagement may draw on maintenance program development, RCM-R, EAM/CMMS, materials, training, and implementation support.
Conscious Asset starts with the situation rather than forcing the work into a predefined service.
Where Are You Now?
 Stabilize → Optimize → Sustain
Organizations come to Conscious Asset from different starting points. Stabilize, Optimize, and Sustain describe where an organization may be today and the nature of the help it may need.
Stabilize
Establish enough control and discipline to move out of reactive mode and perform consistently.
Optimize
Once performance is under control, improve how people, processes, assets, information, and technology are used to achieve better business results at appropriate cost and risk.
Sustain
Embed the disciplines, behaviors, and management systems that allow gains to endure and improvement to continue.
A client may enter at any point. These are not mandatory consulting stages.
The Thinking Behind the Work
Uptime, Steadfast, and
practical experience
Uptime
Uptime provides the model for excellence and the practical methods used to put those principles into practice.
Steadfast
Steadfast provides the management philosophy and operating principles that help organizations deploy improvement successfully and make it endure.
Jim Reyes-Picknell’s work, Conscious Asset’s experience, Executive Briefs, and practical evidence support how those ideas are applied.
Uptime, Steadfast, and
practical experience
Uptime
Uptime provides the model for excellence and the practical methods used to put those principles into practice.
Steadfast
Steadfast provides the management philosophy and operating principles that help organizations deploy improvement successfully and make it endure.
Jim Reyes-Picknell’s work, Conscious Asset’s experience, Executive Briefs, and practical evidence support how those ideas are applied.
Not sure where your situation fits?
You do not need to define the engagement before getting in touch.
Tell us what is happening, what result you need, or what question you are trying to answer. We will review the context and decide whether a conversation makes sense.