by Simplar | Aug 25, 2022 | Built Environment, Business of Construction, Business, Strategic & Project Planning, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Weekly Construction Message
Disruption Thomas C Schleifer, Ph.D. For the past eight weeks we have been focusing on managing under disorderly market conditions. The feedback I have been getting from industry leaders is that they believe this current disorderly market is a temporary phenomenon...
by Simplar | Aug 18, 2022 | Built Environment, Business of Construction, Facility Management, Organization Transformation, Partnering, Planning, PM, Project Delivery, Weekly Construction Message
Building A Stable Organization from Within Thomas C Schleifer, Ph.D. Our industry’s skilled labor shortage is not new. It is just worse with the pandemic. A growing shortage of skilled labor has haunted the construction industry for the past 15 years. Research has...
by Simplar | Aug 12, 2022 | Built Environment, Business of Construction, Business, Strategic & Project Planning, Weekly Construction Message
Strategic Flexibility–Managing in Disorderly Markets Thomas C Schleifer, Ph.D. Last week in a Case Study of Disorderly Markets – we summarized the series of management decisions made by governments in response to post-pandemic economic developments. I...
by Simplar | Aug 4, 2022 | Built Environment, Business, Strategic & Project Planning, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Financial Management and Risk, Weekly Construction Message
Disorderly Markets–A Case Study Thomas C Schleifer, Ph.D. Contractors are used to managing in volatile markets that go up and down in predictable cycles. This post pandemic market, however, is not simply cyclical or volatile. It is disorderly. It veers from...
