Business Management Skills

Like most things during organisation change Plant, Equipment and Tools are subject to change. This is an area that is consistently forgotten during the process of organisation change. When processes change there is often the need to alter the workspace, equipment or tools. If this was a company of actors taking on new play they would handling costumes and set design.

Let’s use the theater comparison a little longer. If the company has been putting on Hamlet and will be performing a musical, their costuming and set design will have to undergo transition. Musicals, with their grander production requirements, often need larger theaters. Period piece costumes appropriate for Shakespeare would be ridiculous for musical comedy. The tools, equipment and plant for the play must transition to make the musical work. It would not take a genius to realize that no theater group, no matter how talented, could make a musical work with Shakespeare props.

How does this apply to organisation change? When transitions occur from old processes to new processes, PET also transitions. Ironically, while actors are not expected to go without PET changes, workers in business settings frequently are expected to do so. Necessary equipment upgrades will go undone. At times businesses will invest in the right equipment, but not in the right facilities for it. It is commonplace in business to expect satisfactory organisation change with conditions that would send actors into a strike. That is astounding because actors are often considered to suffer abuse in their industry. Failing to procure the right equipment and tools can torpedo a change effort.

PET is a four component process. At first, identifying the changes that are needed to equipment, tools, or work spaces is the priority. Will new software be needed? The next step is to put the changes in place and test them. Are the changes working the way they should be? The impacted guidelines and operating controls need to be altered for the new PET. Whenever new equipment is being employed it necessitates the introduction of revised guidelines and new manuals. Who would give someone an MP3 player without the manual? In a work setting, this is the function manuals and guidelines serve. See to it that old guidelines and unnecessary manuals are purged from the workplace. They are useless garbage following PET change. No one keeps manuals for things they don’t own anymore, why should a business?

Plant, equipment and tools are things must be handles as part of organisation change. The required changes may be relatively minor. The things that have to be altered can be epic in proportions. No matter the size, identifying, setting up, and testing the process changes will have to occur. Do the necessary revision work on manuals and guidelines once things are up and running. Why create unnecessary confusion? Get rid of the old manuals and guidelines. It limits the clutter and misinformation

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