Reduce dependence on key people and make your teams' experience mobilisable to support the site's performance and growth.
Leadership
Turn know-how into an industrial performance asset
Le Beau Geste lets you steer know-how like other industrial assets: identify the risks, secure critical knowledge and organise its distribution.
Role of know-how
Part of the site's performance still depends on knowledge held by a few people
To be quantified
Equipment, processes and data are tracked as assets, but field experience often stays diffuse. Le Beau Geste lets you steer this asset base as an industrial asset: risk mapping, coverage of critical know-how and shared governance between site leadership and trade referents.
Equipment, processes and data are tracked as assets, but field experience often stays diffuse. Le Beau Geste lets you steer this asset base as an industrial asset: risk mapping, coverage of critical know-how and shared governance between site leadership and trade referents.
Use cases
Projects where know-how decides continuity
Site transfer, ramp-up or dependence on key people: projects where know-how must be steered as an industrial asset.
Anticipate departures that matter for the site
Reduce dependence on key people.
Map the expertise the site's performance depends on, decide capture priorities and track risk coverage before key departures.
Support a ramp-up
Grow capacity without diluting experience.
Before the ramp-up, capture the sequences of experienced teams in Le Beau Geste, validate them, then roll them out as the reference on the new line.
Transfer a process or a site
Preserve mastery during an industrial transfer.
Capture the source site's experience and organise its take-up by the destination site.
Align sites on reproducible performance
Reduce performance or quality gaps between workshops and sites.
Map the practices that explain the gaps, have them decided at the steering committee and roll them out as the group reference in Le Beau Geste.
Develop a multi-site model
Circulate experience at group scale.
Organise a shared asset base while keeping useful local variants.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions — Leadership
Start small but on a visible issue: a critical trade, a sensitive workshop or a transfer to secure. The aim is to get a first concrete result quickly before widening.
Cross three simple criteria: operational impact, difficulty of replacement and risk of loss. The know-how that combines these three dimensions should come first.
Choose a few indicators before you start: expert time mobilised, time to upskill, errors, scrap, stoppages or dependence on a key person. ROI becomes much clearer when you compare a before/after situation. We support you in defining your objectives and indicators;
Formalise what worked on the first scope: capture method, validation, roles, indicators and update rhythm. You can then replicate this framework workshop by workshop without starting from scratch.
2-3 people are enough to demonstrate value at site scale. Keep it simple: a sponsor, supported by a trade referent close to the field. The most important thing is that everyone knows who identifies the know-how, who validates the content and who follows its updates.
Related resources
Diagnose the risks with the I-CKH audit, discover Le Beau Geste and steer coverage of critical know-how.
What share of your site's performance still depends on a few key people?
The approach can start on a restricted scope before a progressive extension.