Corrective Action Program Best Practice 28 – Don’t Solve It Alone When Someone Else Already Has

A pump in your plant fails, so your team tries one fix. It does not hold, so they try another. Down the hall, a work crew makes a procedural error that other facilities eliminated years ago, and the investigation starts from a blank page. Meanwhile, a manager faces a complex, high-risk decision and works through it from first principles, never asking whether a dozen other organizations had already faced the same decision and written down what they learned. In each case, the answers existed the entire time, freely available to anyone willing to look them up. Nobody looked, because in this organization’s culture, if it wasn’t invented here, it doesn’t exist.

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About the Author

Nathan Ives is President and CEO of StrategyDriven, and serves as an executive at a nuclear and energy AI software company, where his role has grown to encompass COO-level functions and AI solution design. A former U.S. Navy nuclear submarine officer and NRC-licensed Senior Reactor Operator, he brings over 30 years of experience spanning nuclear operations, Big 4 consulting, and enterprise leadership across nine countries. He holds an MBA from Kennesaw State University and a B.S. in Physics from the U.S. Naval Academy, and serves as Executive Director and Board Member of the PanAmerican College Fund.

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