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2024 VIRTUAL

1. Success in Technology Implementation (February 12th)
2. Data-Driven Decision Making For Your Business (April 8th)
3. ROI From Investing in Off Site Production – Or Prefabrication (June 3rd)
4. The Life Cycle of Estimating – Bidding With More Data and Less Gut (August 12th)

1. Success in Technology Implementation
The implementation of technology continues to be a challenge for many contractors. Success lies in the specific definition of workflow first, then the evaluation of the current technology available to insert into the workflow.
Standardization of these workflows enables staff to learn effectively and ramp up quickly in order to drive project success sooner.

In this session we will:
• Discuss technology strategy and its role in organizational success
• Outline successful workflow examples that drive rapid onboarding
• Examine examples of technology implementation that create transparency and repeatable, predictable results
 
2. Data-Driven Decision Making For Your Business
Because data-driven decision-making is at the heart of today’s most profitable companies, tools like Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) provide a critical business edge for decision-making. We will cover the approaches for selecting KPIs, show easy-to-understand processes to ensure predictable business outcomes in several functional areas, and include practical examples and real-world best practices.

Learning Objectives:
• Find out what KPIs are and why you should care
• Learn how to use KPIs to drive profitability in your company
• Discover how you can quickly implement and communicate KPIs to employees

3. ROI From Investing in Off Site Production – Or Prefabrication
When we pole construction executives regarding their greatest industry challenges, inevitably the #1 challenge is the ability to stay competitive in an increasingly cost-driven marketplace. Other challenges include out of control supply chain, poorly managed projects, decreased productivity, quality control and a shrinking skilled workforce. One solution that impacts all of these challenges is the investment in an internal Prefabrication Process and facility. However, the implementation process can seem daunting, and the investment can be difficult to quantify. The job site is our primary place of business, and that place is not always conducive to a safe, lean installation or predictable outcomes. We believe the answer is to embrace a new business model; one that takes you away from the historical onsite approach to construction and moves you toward a lean standard work model performed in an off-site production space. This session will demonstrate the principles required for this Lean transformation. Further we will provide a methodology to calculate a return on investment from a Prefabrication operation. Attendees include Operations Managers, Project Managers, Project Executives, Group Executives, and Business Owners.

Learning Objectives:
•        Calculate a return on investment of a prefabrication facility
•        Learn the fundamental importance in the standardization of means and methods
•        Lean principles, sustainable management systems
•        Benefits of measuring and leveraging key production metrics
•        Understanding the power of increasing your standard work
•        That gaining control of design to increase predictable outcomes


4. The Life Cycle of Estimating – Bidding With More Data and Less Gut
With the technology available to the industry, it is entirely possible to price work utilizing data in lieu of estimating software with the “hope” that it contains the right information to help land the job AND not lose profit. During this session, we will discuss the life cycle of estimating and the critical path of information that must be shared through the get work, do work, and keep score functions to allow for this critical information to be gathered, extracted, and utilized.

Learning objectives:
• Define bid selection criteria - not all opportunities are good ones
• Discuss the utilization of data and data mining in bid strategy
• Outline the link of consistency required between estimating and work breakdown structure
• Show the critical role of the estimator in the essential preconstruction planning process
• List the lessons learned needed to close the information loop. This is the most valuable information that is so seldom shared

All 2024 Courses will be lead by
Stephane McShane of Maxim Consulting.
Stephane McShane is a Director at Maxim Consulting Group responsible for the evaluation and implementation processes with our clients. Stephane works with construction related firms of all sizes to evaluate business practices and assist with management challenges. With a large depth of experience working in the construction industry, Stephane is keenly aware of the business and, most specifically, operational challenges that firms face. Her
areas of expertise include: Leadership development, executive coaching, organizational assessments, strategic planning, project execution, business development, productivity improvement, and training programs. Mrs. McShane is an internationally recognized
speaker, mentor, author, and teacher. Her ability to motivate, inspire, and create confidence among your work groups is extremely rare and very effective.

​PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Stephane possesses the rare combination of talent from being in the field as an apprentice, electrician, foreman, then working her way through each operational chair within a successful electrical construction firm. Her ability and drive defined her to be "best in class" at each position held. This talent is what makes her tremendously effective at operational and organizational
assessments today. She has successfully conquered every operational position from being an estimating trainee through executive management. She has built, trained, and led her teams to become the undisputed leaders in their markets. She is able to quickly identify organizational positives and negatives and assess appropriate action steps and throughputs.