Use a new management style such as the *I.S.O. system.

To be a certified I.S.O. organization all work related tasks must be documented.

This rule helps ensure that everyone is not just “doing his or her own thing”, and the organization goes about its business in an orderly and structured way.

This means that time, money and other resources are utilized efficiently.  For example, no more buses running out of fuel or being unprepared during holidays!

According to the ISO (www.iso.org) site:

The larger the organization, and the more people involved, the more the likelihood that there are written procedures, instructions, forms or records. These help ensure that everyone is not just "doing his or her own thing", and that the organization goes about its business in an orderly and structured way. This means that time, money and other resources are utilized efficiently.

To be really efficient and effective, the organization can manage its way of doing things by systemizing it. This ensures that nothing important is left out and that everyone is clear about who is responsible for doing what, when, how, why and where.

Large organizations, or ones with complicated processes, could not function well without management systems. Companies in such fields as aerospace, automobiles, defence, or health care devices have been operating management systems for years.

ISO's management system standards make this good management practice available to organizations of all sizes, in all sectors, everywhere in the world.

Local government

IWA 4:2009, Quality management systems -- Guidelines for the application of ISO 9001:2008 in local government

The objective of International Workshop Agreement IWA 4:2009 is to provide local governments with guidelines for the voluntary application of ISO 9001:2008 on an integral basis. These guidelines do not, however, add, change or modify the requirements of ISO 9001:2008.

For a local government to be considered reliable, it should guarantee minimum conditions of reliability for the processes that are necessary to provide all the services needed by its citizens in a consistent and reliable manner. All the local government's processes, including management, core, operational and support processes, should constitute a single, integral, quality management system. The integral character of this system is important because, otherwise, although a local government could be reliable in some areas of activity, it may be unreliable in others. For a government to be considered reliable, it should guarantee minimum conditions of reliability for all key processes and services. To achieve this, it is advisable that the local government clearly identify the management, core and support processes that, together, make it reliable (see Annex A). Annex B provides a diagnostic tool for local governments to evaluate the scope and maturity of their processes and services.

* International Organization for Standardization.