FOUNDER
Csaba Jancsovics
A career built around one question: what makes industrial businesses perform?
Founder of ONYX Industrial Performance Solutions, Csaba Jancsovics has built his career around improving the performance of complex industrial businesses.
His work sits at the point where strategy, operating systems, leadership and frontline execution come together to determine whether an industrial asset actually performs.
EXPERIENCE
A career focused on industrial performance
For more than two decades, Csaba Jancsovics has worked with industrial businesses facing some of their most difficult performance challenges.
His experience spans strategy, large-scale transformation, operating model design, performance improvement and frontline execution, from the executive team to the operating frontline.
Senior advisory and transformation experience
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Career experience across leading global advisory and performance improvement firms including 15+ years at The Boston Consulting Group, Partners in Performance and Alvarez & Marsal.
Complex industrial environments
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Experience across mining, minerals processing, energy, infrastructure and other asset-intensive industries where operational performance is determined by the interaction between technical systems, people and execution.
Global perspective, operating-level focus
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Work across Australia, Europe, the Americas, the Middle East and Southeast Asia, from enterprise-level transformation through to the operating routines, decisions and behaviours that determine performance on site.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
Experience built in complex industrial environments
Csaba’s career has combined senior advisory roles with direct involvement in major performance improvement and transformation programs across complex industrial businesses.
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Leading global advisory firms
Career experience across The Boston Consulting Group, Partners in Performance and Alvarez & Marsal, working on strategy, transformation and performance improvement in complex industrial businesses.
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Major industrial transformation
Experience across enterprise transformation, asset performance improvement, operating model redesign and implementation, working with organisations where performance depends on both technical and organisational execution.
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From executive agenda to frontline execution
Work spanning CEO and executive priorities through to site leadership, supervisors and frontline teams, connecting strategic objectives with the operating routines and decisions that determine day-to-day performance.
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International industrial experience
Work across Australia, Europe, the Americas, the Middle East and Southeast Asia in mining, minerals processing, energy, infrastructure and other asset-intensive industries.
The common thread has been consistent: understanding what is preventing an industrial business from performing, and working with the organisation to change it.
SELECTED CLIENTS
Experience with leading industrial businesses
Selected organisations Csaba has worked with during his career across major industrial and asset-intensive sectors.
KEY LEARNINGS
What decades of industrial transformation teach you
Different companies, assets and operating environments create different challenges. But over time, several lessons become remarkably consistent.
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Understand the operation before blaming the asset
Assets are often described as old, constrained or inherently difficult. Sometimes they are. But operating practices, management systems and decisions around the asset often explain more of the performance gap than first assumed.
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Technical solutions are only part of the answer
A technically correct solution creates little value unless the organisation can operate it effectively. Roles, capability, management routines and frontline execution determine whether the technical answer becomes an operating result.
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Performance management must change what happens
More data, dashboards and meetings do not automatically improve performance. Good performance management makes the important gaps visible, establishes accountability and drives decisions while there is still time to influence the result.
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Transformation only matters when the line owns it
A transformation team can accelerate improvement, but it cannot permanently operate the business. Sustainable performance begins when leaders, supervisors and frontline teams can maintain and improve the new way of working themselves.
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Value has to reach the result
Completing an initiative is not the same as creating value. The test is whether the operation performs differently and whether that improvement can ultimately be seen in the financial results of the business.
The recurring lesson is simple: industrial performance is rarely improved by one intervention in isolation. The asset, the operating system and the organisation around it have to work together.
WHAT COMES NEXT
Experience only matters if it improves what happens next.
Turning experience into better industrial performance
Today, that experience is applied through ONYX Industrial Performance Solutions, the Industrial Performance platform and Frontline Performance Academy.
The focus remains practical: understand what is holding performance back, identify what needs to change and help build the systems, capability and accountability required to sustain better results.