What if all the forms, checklists, apps, and databases we use to collect data are no more useful than my 3rd grade cursive?
Does your inspection app tell you anything more than what’s missing?
Does your incident report form help you figure out what people are nervous about?
Does your process prompt real-time adjustment of the work plan?
Those thoughts are just the tip of the iceberg. But they should be enough to incite Titanic-level reaction. Especially when you consider how much a company might pay for one of the digital pieces of paper described above. Its something worth having a conversation about.
And what if someone figured out how to turn that conversation into the answers to all of my questions above?
Turns out someone has…