What does your organization need to achieve operational excellence?

Strategy and transformation are hallmarks of our company. No matter how complex, there is a way forward. We have led multi-billion dollar merger and acquisitions for HSE, merging hundreds of professionals and complex, multi-jurisdictional HSE programs in a way that maintains compliance.

Strategy:

Organizational Transformation and Design has to match your strategy goals. Goals must be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-oriented.

Good design needs to have orientation and direction. This means we will work together to clarify what things we HAVE to do and what things we WANT to do. We will match those objectives with the most efficient use of capabilities and resources within the organization. This will frame your design perspective so you can achieve your desired goals, such as level of service and customer experiences (all HRO, HOF).

The Nova Path Difference:
We are known for our exceptional organizational design because of the way we approach strategy and transformation. We have developed our own unique approach and design elements, including HOF and design philosophies, HRO, RE, and HOP.

While most organizations orient themselves around objectives, we see better performance when we help organizations orient teams toward clearer, better strategy.

For organizations to thrive, they must move beyond compliance to resilience. This can only happen through leadership.

We help organizational leaders play a vital role in achieving operational excellence by equipping them to see their organizations through a new lens - beyond just safety. We begin with a safety-based leadership engagement workshop, then train leaders to approach how they lead through the goal of resilience, not just compliance.

This starts by building curiosity in leadership so they begin to understand what matters, and to understand, communicate and interact with the whole organization better.

Critical Risk Management Program:
Leaders then begin to ask more questions about quality incidents, productivity issues, etc. This is critical, because without this, your CRM (Critical Risk Management) defaults back to being “rules” based and only looking at compliance. When leaders are fully involved in understanding and improving every system in the organization, operational excellence can be achieved.

We help organizations with Critical Risk Management, a process that works to identify and control critical risks that could cause serious harm or even death to workers. We’ll help you reduce risk by ensuring that critical controls are in place and effective.

Not only do we assess control, we develop programs to ensure it works properly. This involves identifying what are our most impacting controls, how we verify those, and how risks are connected to other elements.

At Nova Path Risk, we’re different from most management consultants. We understand that within a multi-jurisdictional, international organization compliance must still always be met. However, we are still able to build systems that help people get to compliance quicker and easier, simplifying compliance, so that they can focus on the things that matter most, such as critical controls.

We help organizations achieve compliance through our Operational Excellence Approach.

Compliance is critical, but to achieve operational excellence, you need to shift in organizational operation standards. We help you do that by shifting the focus from compliance-based standards, to resilience-based standards. We’ll work with you to develop technical standards while building in robust and resilient systems that match the risks within the business.

The Nova Path Difference:
Most management consultants in this sector focus primarily on Safety Technical Program Management and Health Technical Program Management. They think about the domain-specific technical compliance work that's needed for them to meet the minimal safety, health, or compliance standards. While we still do compliance and technical standard work, we “zoom out” to influence the other sides of “safety work” that’s required to get the right tools to the people doing the actual work. This is the difference between most consultants and Nova Path Risk, a multi-disciplinary and operational excellence leader.

We help you go beyond the limited scope of typical auditing to understand the true connectedness of each of the individual factors determining and affecting organizational operations.

Assurance:
Assurance involves a program review in order to locate indicators so leaders clearly understand how well the program is doing. It allows for reporting of areas where improvements can be made in order to be more effective and get back on track. It is a review from different angles and reports back at the insights regarding the various points of failure or weak areas, as well as blind spots for the business. 

We’ll help you understand what people really do in your organization and the current design of the work, including how it affects those closest to the actual work.

Whether designing or redesigning, our boots-on-the-ground approach involves talking to those closest to the work, helping them think through those factors that greatest affect their work performance. We help them understand how subtle changes to their environment, tools, equipment, and processes can have a big impact on safety and overall performance.

How your organization learns is vital. We’ll help you design and implement systems of learning that lead to better, more sustainable learning outcomes.

Within your organization, more important than how or what is being taught are the systems that facilitate that learning. Adapting systems to learning can be a complex undertaking for organizations, soaking up resources and requiring a lot of time in order to achieve actual system improvement.

As designers, we look at improvement through a System Redesign philosophy, in order to create more sustainable outcomes. When the system provides better outcomes, you will be able to clearly identify the things that you did that had the biggest impacts. This provides insight into how you have taken what you learned and implemented those learnings. We use multi-disciplined “learning teams” and field engagement to learn from normal work and conduct adapted investigations to be more impactful considering Human and Organizational Process. This helps us determine the root cause of problems in systems, such as common injuries, and develop new systems to prevent the problems in the future.

Is your current Contractor Management system failing to deliver desired outcomes? If you’re struggling to manage your contractors, we’ll help you move from being an Auditor to being an Engager.

With a focus on contractor performance, we’ll help you spend less time on “management” and more time improving how contractors can better perform with you. We work with organizations throughout the entire contractor management process, through defining scope of work all the way to offboarding, in order to optimize Contractor Management.