by Simplar | Jan 14, 2021 | Business, Strategic & Project Planning
How to Use Let’s Talk Business In a recent blog entitled, “What We Don’t Do…” I highlighted the construction industry’s propensity for secrecy; keeping hard-earned lessons “close to the vest” rather than sharing what we have learned with one another. With Let’s Talk...
by Simplar | Jan 14, 2021 | Business, Strategic & Project Planning, Business, Strategic and Project Planning, Business, Strategic and Project Planning
Best Value Construction’s Six Sigma In the 1980s, 37% of all construction projects reported major defects. 37%!!! No manufacturing company would survive a 37% defect rate. By the 1990s, the construction industry suffered 33% of construction projects over budget and...
by Simplar | Jan 14, 2021 | Business, Strategic & Project Planning
Too Much of a Good Thing Our construction industry is enjoying a robust rebound since the depths of the Great Recession, (2009-2012). Residential, commercial, industrial, public and private sectors are all participating, and the future looks pretty good. When the...
by Simplar | Jan 14, 2021 | Business, Strategic & Project Planning
Planning for 2020 (Beliefs) Formal strategic planning is not popular with construction company CEOs. Ironically, engineers, designers, project managers, and supervisors are some of the most sophisticated and effective planners in all of American industry....
by Simplar | Jan 14, 2021 | Business, Strategic & Project Planning
Strategy Defined What’s all this about strategic planning? Many contractors still consider strategic thinking an academic exercise not worth taking into the real world of nuts and bolts construction. Ask a contractor if he considers himself a “doer” or a “thinker”,...
by Simplar | Jan 14, 2021 | Business, Strategic & Project Planning
Strategic Planning #2 Trends The last three blogs of 2019 are concerned with planning for 2020 and beyond. Last week we discussed the unexamined beliefs held by most construction CEOs that prevent them from adopting vigorous formal strategic planning procedures....
