In December 2014, AboitizPower launched 1AP as a strategic campaign aimed towards building a well-designed, agile, and integrated organization that is responsive to current and future needs and is ably manned by competent professionals with a relatively decent bench. Over the past 12 months, the project has achieved significant milestones as it moves closer to its completion.
February 2015
AboitizPower with Renoir Consulting implemented Project Forward, a 50-week improvement program towards achieving the vision of 1AP as the backbone for the organization’s system elements.
Project Forward is developing and implementing system elements to improve AboitizPower’s existing processes, systems, controls, structures, and their linkages to AEV and Business Units. Teams have also been working closely with various CSUs from AboitizPower, the Generation and Distribution Groups, and AEV to look at opportunities for improvement and growth. The Focus Process stage involved data gathering and analysis to create solutions to address those opportunities.
May 2015
After mapping out the results of the Focus Process stage, the first Project Forward townhall meeting was held to get everyone up to speed on 1AP’s progress. Subsequently, solutions design commenced to address the selected opportunities, and metrics were determined to measure improvements.
June 2015
Members of the Steering Committee and Revenue, Support, and OSB MAT (Organization Structure and Behavior) teams gathered for the Strategic Integration Meeting (SIM), which was organized to showcase solutions developed for the identified opportunities. These solutions focused on helping the AboitizPower organization streamline its processes and establish Management Control Systems that are continuously improved through key performance indicators.
July 2015 to Present
AboitizPower TMs and TLs were updated on the project’s status at the SIM Town Hall meeting that detailed the solutions being designed. Once developed, Project Forward went into implementation mode, working across the organization to make the improvements work.
These solutions include streamlining meetings to increase productivity and efficiency, the RACI exercise to clearly define roles and responsibilities across the organization, and the AP Wiki platform that allows everyone to share corporate information and contribute content.
Another key solutions was the improvement in the Planning and Budget process to allow a more effective cascade of goals from management to team members and rationalization of resource requirements. Meanwhile, the Document Management System was put in place to provide a common repository of governance documents and quality information.
All in all, 26 solutions are being driven by Project Forward to contribute in developing 1AP.
In 2016, Project Forward will be in the Sustainability or “Go Forward” phase of the project to sustain improvement made in the previous year as an organization.
