Looking Ahead to 2025
Thomas C Schleifer, Ph.D.
These are the topics we will be discussing in 2025. We’ll be diving a little deeper and our treatment of each topic will be more granular. See you next year.
Marketing
- Reputation
- Market segmentation
- Owner selection
- Project selection
Acquisition
- Bidding
- Alternative forms
- Project suitability
- Growth
Organizational Development
- Functional organization
- Recruiting
- Training
- Retaining
Planning
- Budgeting
- Strategy
- Capacity
- Project selection
Risk
- Recognizing risk
- Operational risk
- Financial risk
- The R-Score Formula
Operations
- Flexible overhead
- Subcontractor selection and management
- Shortage of skilled labor
- Technology
Financial Management
- Role of the CFO
- Capital capacity
- Cash flow management
- Financial self-analysis
Distress
- Financial Distress
- Labor distress
- Legal distress
- Market distress
Markets
- Downturn
- Recovery
- Growth
- Downsizing
Leadership
- Vision
- Communication
- Management by Objectives
- Flexibility
Value
- Succession
- Consolidation
- Sale
- Dissolution
Business
- Getting the work
- Doing the work
- Accounting for the work
- Farewell to 2025
As always, questions and subject suggestions are welcome. Wishing everyone a happy and prosperous New Year.
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