How To Energize Decisionmaking: A Framework For Project Success

Building design and construction capital projects benefit from clear types of engagement among the sets of working groups. This clarity includes a mutual understanding of areas of authority for certain types of decisions. Often decisions lie in limbo because it is unclear who is responsible for deciding an issue, especially when decisions are intended to […]

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Designing For Success: How Early Efforts Drive Quality In Capital Projects

W. Edwards Deming, an influential business theorist, statistician, and management consultant, significantly influenced quality management practices. His work played a role in the evolution of the Toyota Production System and the business practices of many other companies in Japan, and ultimately in the USA. Deming’s ideas helped Toyota focus on reducing variability and improving processes,

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How to Develop Awesome Internal Project Performance Coaching Results

Why Develop Internal Project Performance Coaching? Project performance coaching is a process. It involves: Investigating how well the project is meeting and improving performance protocols. Interpreting what observations mean in terms of team performance, and Recommending interventions to help the team meet its goals. ‘Lean coaching’ is a term for this work. Lean coaching practices

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Wiring Winning Projects in a Sizable Industry and Looming Workforce Decline

Introduction In their book Wiring the Winning Organization Gene Kim and Steve Spear describe the leadership capabilities present in organizations that perform far better than counterparts in their fields. They describe these capabilities as the social circuitry that supports the people performing the work. Winning organizations focus on creating the conditions that allow people to

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Lean Construction – Significantly Abridged

By Tom Richert, RisingTerrain LLC Introduction With a bit of digging into lean construction you are bound to run into people who talk about their lean journey. The metaphor is applied because the philosophy informing lean is rooted in the idea that continuous improvement is both always possible and imperative. A challenge with the metaphor

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Extending Collaboration for a Remarkably Better Supply Chain

Beyond Onsite Planning A key constraint on the effectiveness of a system is the supply of information and material from outside the system. In project terms, this includes people and enterprises supplying information, intellectual property, and physical materials and equipment. These people and enterprises are considered second-party performers because their primary points of contact for

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How Wise Construction Reduced a Construction Schedule by More Than 25%

By Brenden Lydon, John DaSilva, and Tom Richert Introduction In late May of 2023 Wise Construction began the renovation of a 20,000-square-foot hospital wing that provides Newton-Wellesley Hospital outside of Boston with a 24-bed medical/surgical unit. The planned schedule accommodated substantial completion of the work by April 5, 2024, so the hospital could prepare the

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