by Simplar | Jan 14, 2021 | Business, Strategic & Project Planning
Strategic Planning – By Any Other Name Would Smell as Sweet Without ever using the word “strategy” or “strategic thinking” or, God forbid, “strategic planning”, Dr. Kenn Sullivan and I discuss managing risk through a process of strategic thinking in our book,...
by Simplar | Jan 14, 2021 | Business, Strategic & Project Planning
If You Don’t Know Where You’re Going You’re Probably Not Going to Get There In an informal study of several thousand contractors of all sizes and types throughout the country, less than 40% claimed to do any type of formal corporate planning at all, and many did not...
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....
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
Mother Nature Is Taking Us to School Let’s face it – everything has suddenly changed. Everything. We didn’t think that Mother Nature had this much power over the clever, inventive, and industrious human race. After all, we cure disease, create artificial intelligence,...
