A VETERAN OWNED SMALL BUSINESS | Call or text now for a FREE consultation: +1 (770) 765-3692 | 
Corrective Action Program Best Practice 18 – Due Date Extension Authorization
Implementing performance improving actions can dramatically enhance the organizational results achieved. Unfortunately, many identified actions go unfulfilled, the victims of never ending delays. Establishing robust corrective action due date extension protocols, complimented by associated management metrics and reports, helps curtail unending activity deferment.
Management establishes the organization’s priorities and assigns activity due dates and resources accordingly. To meet this responsibility, managers must continuously monitor and control activity due dates and resource assignments after they are made; adjusting them accordingly as new information and/or opportunities become available.
Hi there! Gain access to this article with a StrategyDriven Insights Library – Total Access subscription or buy access to the article itself.
| Subscribe to the StrategyDriven Insights Library
Sign-up now for your StrategyDriven Insights Library – Total Access subscription for as low as $15 / month (paid annually). Not sure? Click here to learn more. |
Buy the Article
Don’t need a subscription? Buy access to Corrective Action Program Best Practice 18 – Due Date Extension Authorization for just $2! |
About the Author
Nathan Ives is a StrategyDriven Principal and Host of the StrategyDriven Podcast. For over twenty years, he has served as trusted advisor to executives and managers at dozens of Fortune 500 and smaller companies in the areas of management effectiveness, organizational development, and process improvement. To read Nathan’s complete biography, click here.
Significant event mitigation and recurrence prevention represent two important corrective action program functions. As such, senior management involvement with, commitment to, and accountability for significant event corrective actions is critical to program success.
Documenting adverse conditions and work requests is an administrative task viewed by some as burdensome and valueless. Nothing could be further from the truth. Capturing condition and request information is vitally important to the overall effectiveness and continuous improvement of every organization.
On-duty operations personnel are responsible for a facility’s safe and reliable operation. To ensure they are capable of meeting this obligation under normal, abnormal, and emergency conditions, operations personnel must be aware of the performance status of the equipment under their control. Therefore, these watchstanders must be immediately notified of deficiencies that currently or will potentially diminish facility performance.
Effective corrective action programs promptly and consistently screen newly reported issues for their impact on the organization’s vision, mission, values, and goals. These screenings prioritize and aggregate corrective actions from all business areas with the organization’s strategic initiatives and day-to-day operations; ensuring optimal resource use. Consequently, condition report review meetings are frequently used to review and prioritize newly submitted condition reports.
Business Programs