JOC Program PRODUCTIVITY IMPROVEMENT – It’s all about empowerment and accountability

JOC Program productivity improvement is supported by the following factors:

#1  Organizational development & leadership

#2  Common data environment (CDE)

#3  Monitoring and continuous improvement

#4 Compliance

#5  Enabling Technology

#1  Organizational development & leadership

• Owner and services partner leadership, commitment, capacity, and accountability
• Cross-team relationship building – integrated planning, procurement, and project delivery teams and processes
• Empowering those doing the work – enable on-site decision-making and leverage expertise of local professionals
• Education as to the fact that procurement methods and managerial structure are directly linked to both planning and project delivery domains, making contract management and change management an interdisciplinary activity.
  Efficient planning, procurement, and project delivery are intertwined and invovled real property owners and services providers.
• Mandatory initial and ongoing multi-level, multi-format training for all participants and stakeholders
• Provide a clear, written understanding of the relationships and interdependencies among the stakeholders involved
• Conduct each project per a proven programmatic approach wherein specific roles and activities  performed at the construction task level of a project relate to the work packages breakdown and the skill sets of the people who carry
  out the work
• The owner JOC Program Administrator has full authority to assign priorities, apply resources, and direct the work of persons assigned to the project
• Develop and maintain continuity in the functional disciplines; policies, procedures, and lines of responsibilities
• Acknowledgement of the interdependencies of strategy, structure, systems, and shared values for all pariticipants and stakeholders.
• Cultivate learning and adoption of innovative solutions

The principles and theories of project organization and program management, thought proven, are relatively new from both a granular level perspective and overall tean collaborative methods  with repsect to internal and external planning, procurement, and project delivery groups. 

#2  Common data environment (CDE)

• Use of industry standard terms and definitions, all in plain English without excessive use of acronyms or abbreviations.
• Local market, current, and granular construction task data organized via expanded CSI MasterFormat. (Note: Do not use location or economic factoring.)
• Transparent sharing of technical, cost, and status information

#3  Monitoring and continuous improvement

• Use of quantitative metrics and key performance indicators.
• Adjust processes and teams as required based upon metrics.

#4 Compliance

• Ensure compliance with application regulations/statutes
• Observe fiduciary responsibility to deploy best value solutions
• Conduct regular independent third-party audits
• Prevent the excessive use of consultants (Note: Excessive use of consultants can set the stage for potential fraud,  limit team knowledge enhancement, and cause excessive JOC administration costs.)

#5  Enabling Technology

• Leverage collaborative, secure, and easy-to-use cloud JOC information management technology
• Ensure technology embeds and enables established JOC processes and procedures

Benefits

1. More responsive / on-demand services

2. Higher quality work product with minimal risks and variations

3. Shorter procurement times

4. Shorter overall project delivery time

5. Lower total cost

6. Higher overall levels of satisfaction from all program participants

7. Greater financial visibility

8. Higher overall transparency

9. Shared and acceptable levels of risk/reward

10. A collaborative working relationship between program participants

11. Long-term relationships

12.  Improved resource utilization / reduced waste…

 

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