Dollarizing Maintenance

If you want to take Maintenance to the next level at your facility, learn to express your operation’s impact in dollars. Why? Decisionmaking at the boardroom level always involves some degree of cost/ benefit analysis. Your ability to present senior managers with a crisp financial description of even mid-level departmental work — being able to talk their language, in other words — will do a lot to boost your persuasiveness in the budgetary process.