Creating Value
D. Brown Management
April 11, 2020
Know the difference between creating real value versus creating transactional value. Creating wealth and not just re-allocating it is the path to sustainable growth. Understand the differences and how to incorporate them into your strategy and planning.
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Change Management Dashboards
D. Brown Management
March 29, 2019
Summarize your detailed change tracking logs with concise dashboards that give you critical information in a format that allows you to see the big picture while still having enough information to be actionable.
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Tracking Change Progress (The Funnel): Basic Status Categories
D. Brown Management
March 19, 2019
Managing changes effectively means that you need clear visibility across all projects. While the workflow will vary by project, the key progress milestones in your internal process will remain fixed.
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Change Management Workflow (From Identification-to-Payment)
D. Brown Management
March 18, 2019
For contractors to manage changes effectively, they must understand the entire change management workflow up through the project owner’s approval and payment process.
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Changes - Problem or Fact?
D. Brown Management
March 14, 2019
If you perceive that changes are a problem in construction, then you are likely framing them as a point of blaming others. This framing will impact your ability to effectively manage changes.
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Benchmarks Only Tell a Partial Story
D. Brown Management
February 16, 2019
As the leader of a contracting business, you must be constantly focused on the basic scoreboard metrics of customer satisfaction, profitability, and cash flow. What’s a good number? What are others doing?
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Appearance and Experience of Management Control
D. Brown Management
February 5, 2019
As your career develops and you grow into roles of greater responsibility, one of the biggest challenges is what Jennifer Garvey Berger calls “The paradox of the appearance of increasing control and the experience of decreasing control.”
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The Knowledge Management Pyramid (DIKW)
D. Brown Management
February 1, 2019
Knowledge Management is a complex topic and the contractors who learn to manage it the best will have an edge in the market. There are several models that can help you visualize the differences between different types of “knowledge” in your organization.
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Levels of Improvement: Start with the Foundation
D. Brown Management
October 3, 2018
Every process in your business including field productivity will go through three levels of improvement: From predictable to productive to scalable. Trying to skip levels is the surest way to slow down improvements across the company.
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Impacted Productivity - Five Elements of Making a Good Case
D. Brown Management
August 25, 2018
Contractors are continually faced with costly impacts to their labor productivity and schedule with many beyond their direct control. The best Project Managers know how to identify, communicate, and mitigate these impacts.
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