CHAPTER 7

Overcome Corporation’s Inertia and Resistance to Change

… an organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly is the ultimate competitive advantage.

—Jack Welch [198]

To deliver resource productivity projects like clockwork, businesses need a large group of people interested in resource productivity, consciously thinking about ways to save resources, making allowances and leeway for the projects to occur, to design, purchase, coordinate timelines, install, test and commission, and operate and maintain the equipment, and then sustaining the improvements made over time.

All of these tasks require interaction and coordination with multiple stakeholders and multiple functions. In a small company, this may ...

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