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Change Management and Lean Training Generated over $50M Savings in 3 Years for North American Railroad

This is a highly competitive Class 1 Railroad with geographically dispersed operations and acquired business components still having old culture.

Situation

This is a highly competitive Class 1 Railroad with geographically dispersed operations and acquired business components still having old culture. Past efforts to transform the culture with change management had limited success as they have a highly unionized workforce working with a myriad of procedures, policies, and metrics, and they were unable to meet investor expectations based on their performance measurements including transit time, asset utilization, mechanical reliability.

Actions

  • Worked with top management to create a powerful vision, define expectations and develop a roadmap for change
  • Identified skill and performance gaps in the organization
  • Developed and delivered tailored training from senior executives to line level employees
  • Conducted 20 pilot change projects across the business, followed by a simultaneous rollout in 8 top yards covering 3000 employees and 200 work areas
  • Provided hands-on training with Train-The-Trainer approach to develop client capability
  • Implemented a performance management system to sustain change

Results

  • Created over 50 trained internal change agents that are sustaining the effort and expanding lean into new areas
  • Positive feedback and active union participation
  • Generated over $50M savings in the first three years of the implementation
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