Success and operational efficiency in a control room are not objective concepts. They are subject to a person's job function, experiences, and environment. Operators, for example, focus more on operational tasks, while C-level management prioritizes organizational objectives.
Interestingly, the current challenges in control rooms differ based on operational efficiency in that environment. In less efficient control rooms, a significant problem is lack of knowledge transfer (so, internal issues). Conversely, in highly efficient environments, professionals worry most about cybersecurity threats (external challenges).
Professionals in highly efficient control rooms spend less time on monitoring and relatively more time on optimizing. In contrast, staff of environments with less operational efficiency spend more time monitoring, analyzing, responding and documenting, leaving almost no time for optimizations. This means that low efficiency is a vicious circle.
We will continue to bring you more insights from our control room survey, so stay tuned to our site!
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