The Benefits of LEAN Job Order Contracting
Bringing significantly higher Productivity, better Quality, full Financial Transparency and Compliance, and Continuous Improvement to all of your repair, renovation, and minor new construction projects, without excessive fees or other administration costs, are the primary benefits of LEAN Job Order Contracting.
The OpenJOC(TM) Approach EXCLUSIVELY applies LEAN Job Order Contracting through all processes, tools, training, and support, while ensuring that quality management is completely integrated and aligned with your organizational strategies.
Leadership
The OpenJOC Approach supports and requires greater involvement by the owner team and demonstrated leadership and competency ensure that all internal and external teams are be motivated towards the organizations goals and objectives.
Risk & Opportunity Management
The OpenJOC Approach provides a governance tool and to help identify, quantify, cost, and prioritize opportunities that contribute to bottom line improvements and organizational successes.
An Integrated Approach
The OpenJOC Approach integrates people, process, information, and decision-support technology to drive optimal repair, renovation, and minor new construction outcomes with vetted service providers.
The LEAN Approach to Job Order Contracting
LEAN Job Order Contracting brings a common collaborative and fully transparent framework to all JOC Programs and Projects. This helps to keep consistency, alignment across different management styles/approaches while also applying a matching common language, glossary of terms and definitions, and costs.
Exclusive Features and Benefits
The keys to LEAN Job Order Contracting and EXCLUSIVE features of the 4BT OpenJOC solution include…
- Emphasis on leadership, collaboration, transparency, and compliance
- Current, actionable, and locally researched line item detailed unit price cost data
- Technology Supporting – Program Management, Project Management, Document Management, Estimate Management, Workflow Management, Issues/Task Management, Building Management, Contractor/Subcontractor Management, Component Management, Location Management, Data Export, and BIM integration.
- Informal Compliance Reviews
- Formal Compliance Reviews
- Shared risk/reward
- Performance-based incentives
- Objective key performance metrics (KPIs)
- Long-term relationship developed through communication,awareness, and trust
- Mandatory and ongoing training for all participants
- Continuous improvement centered upon leveraging experience and input from ALL participants
- No intermediate third parties – direct owner/service provider interactions
With the LEAN Job Order Contracting in place… whether through a National Government Agency owned and managed cooperative, or via a owner-managed LEAN JOC Program, organizations will find it easier to incorporate their quality management system into the core business processes and gain significant benefits in terms of … higher productivity, fewer, in not elimiated changes orders and legal disputes, faster project delivery times, higher financial return-on-investment, and greater overall satisfcation of all participants and stakeholders.
