UCo, its People and the Right Productivity System

Abstract

Aksel is the CEO of UCo and he is becoming more and more concerned about the company’s competitiveness in a challenging global market. He has recently brought in Gary as the company’s operations director, a new executive position, on the strength of his performance at a world-class manufacturing company in Canada. Gary’s role is essentially to ensure safety and productivity performance across UCo and his first assignment is to assess what he feels is required to improve both the company’s safety performance and its cost competitiveness. Based on his discussions with Aksel, Gary knows that there is a need to streamline operations and bring consistent standards to a range of sites working under very different conditions.