How to Grow Your Business: Increase Productivity and Connectivity

Modern businesses must be able to maintain productivity and connectivity in difficult market environments. This is essential for staying competitive and relevant. In recent years, however, increasing productivity and connectivity has been deemed a lower priority.

If the organization’s hierarchy, processes, or systems are set up with the right energy, culture, and focus, this can be avoided. It is essential to have a sense of connection within a company. As the old saying goes, the whole is better than the sum of its parts. Productivity is also fundamental, especially today. Why?

Because it allows businesses to keep up with their competition in a highly competitive market. In addition, productivity can help produce higher quality output at a lower cost, which leads to higher profits and greater success. The company can reap the benefits of productivity as its energy costs rise and materials get more expensive.

This article will explore productivity and how it can be measured. We will also discuss the factors that affect productivity and how we can improve our performance in today’s world.

What is Productivity?

It is important to first define, measure, and understand something in order to improve it. There are four hierarchical perspectives on productivity. Figure 1 illustrates the interdependence of these four perspectives, which include 15 factors. Each of these factors reacts positively or negatively to changes.

This is commonly measured by tangible outcomes, impacts, and targets in engineered project delivery. To achieve this, historical performance data is used to determine the desired outcome. This is done by using the same tangibles to measure the performance.

Modern business is looking for productivity improvement. These productivity improvements include, most notably, the introduction of new tools and equipment, particularly through digital modernization initiatives. It is important to consider the effects of introducing digital technologies on other business functions. It can impact accountability, follow-up, management of the workforce, connectivity, as well as effective communication.

Measuring Productivity

measuring productivity is important to take into account both the intangibles (client satisfaction and safety, motivation, welfare, and so on) as well as the tangibles. The tangibles (deliverables and handovers, hours used or achieved, etc.) Productivity must embrace both the tactical and strategic aspects. It must also be in line with the overall success values of all project stakeholders.

All phases of a project must measure productivity. By doing this, stakeholders will be able to monitor and hold them accountable for the “down-the-line” effects of their delivery performance on others. It is important to be aware of the potential pitfalls associated with incentivizing productivity. For example, the lack of sustainability could be one of them.

Engineered project delivery is more productive when it is part of a business’s life cycle. This includes collating past productivity data for all projects. This requires that data be adequately coded to ensure productivity “NORMS” are maintained. These codes are used to accurately plan and price future projects.

Accurate success measures can be achieved when productivity systems, processes, and tools are integrated within a company. Not only is this important, but also identifying ways to improve productivity can help. This will allow the company to embrace innovation confidently.

Improving Productivity

It is essential to be able to constantly improve the productivity of a company. This requires being able to invent, evaluate, and make decisions about what success looks like. Businesses must be able to adapt quickly and be objective about their results. This includes creating a culture and processes that are consistent with the goals of the business.

• Innovate business according to your strategic goals.
• Evaluate and choose the most effective improvement opportunities.
• You should set goals for the design and implementation.
• You can design and implement quickly, with solid foundations for success.
• If early measures are not supporting the target, stop, rethink, or rework any innovation investments.

Embracing Digital Modernization

Digitalization does not mean replacing typewriters with computers; paper with PDFs and faxes using emails. Digitalization refers to the efficient improvement of the document asset (drawings and documents, files and dossiers), with its digital twin (metadata, digital workflows, and artificial intelligence).

Let’s take as an example the pre-commissioning and commissioning phases. A lack of transparency about the effectiveness of productivity early on in a project could have a negative impact on the project’s end. This is particularly true for the subjective productivity performance of those involved in delivering the later phases. These unsatisfactory outcomes can be prevented by a modern digital management system. How? These are some attributes that it should have:

• It should also use completions management software (CMS). This system can digitally package all tests and inspections required during all phases of a project. This will allow you to demonstrate the technical integrity of equipment, components, interconnections, subsystems, or systems.
• To digitize the workflow of handovers, it should use a CMS. These handovers could include those from manufacturers and vendors, as well installation and construction (cold or dead). It could also capture handovers from pre-commissioning (component-level functional tested), commissioning and operations (safe, ready for start-up).
• It should use a CMS to digitally collect and digitize project systems and tools that are interconnected. It will allow you to use the same data in order to validate a “single source truth”.

This collection of systems ultimately allows suppliers to collaborate. How does this improve productivity? These are just a few of the many benefits.

• The system suppliers can be both effective in delivering a role on a project or understanding the key data interfaces.
• Digital systems can be configured to meet specific processes, workflows, or terminology.
• Systemes can improve and enhance the digital assets of their digital twins.
• Systems will replace the traditional pen and paper and manual administrative procedures with digital equivalents. These systems will significantly increase efficiency and productivity both in the planning and execution phases. Paperless check-sheets and ITRs, handover certificates, handover work packs (pre-commissioning WPs), and handover dossiers with auto file compile, can all help to increase productivity.
• Systems promote and embrace user communities and communication in the real and digital worlds. Other programs, such as MS Teams, are also included.
• The systems are transparent and can be accessed on-demand. They also provide dashboards and reports that can be manipulated or interpreted without manual intervention. This allows project teams to analyze, identify root causes and provide effective recovery solutions. They will ultimately help achieve the desired success.

Connectivity and productivity are two of the most important assets a company has. We hope you find this article helpful in boosting productivity within your business.