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Everything You Need To Know About Starting A Construction Company

Strategy Driven

Research the Construction Industry: Before you invest any time or money into your construction business: Research the construction industry thoroughly. Learn about the different types of projects available and find out what kind of skills you or your employees need in order to complete them successfully.

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Here Are Some Tips On Getting Started:

Strategy Driven

Research the Construction Industry: Before you invest any time or money into your construction business: Research the construction industry thoroughly. Learn about the different types of projects available and find out what kind of skills you or your employees need in order to complete them successfully.

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How CEOs Can Make Smart Strategic Trade-Offs

Harvard Business Review

When confronted with disruptive technologies, many companies fail to align digital strategies with their core strategies. Today’s organizational strategies call for small, manageable units focused solely on specific technologies, end markets, or geographical areas. Drawing in new talent versus integrating a cohesive team.

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Do You Have the IT For the Coming Digital Wave?

Harvard Business Review

With a tsunami of new digital technologies all converging simultaneously — social, mobile, cloud, analytics and embedded devices — there has been, once again, a cry for corporate IT to radically change to enable the digital transformation of businesses. There is no time for complacency. People are the key, obviously.

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A Tool for Balancing Your Company’s Digital Investments

Harvard Business Review

Note that whether the technology used is “leading edge” is secondary. They are essentially R&D investments in unproven ways to use digital technologies. They are driven by novel ideas or perhaps a new technology. For example, it might be a new business model shaped by digital. Selecting project managers.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

” So GE has hired 1,000 software engineers and data scientists to provide enhanced software and analytical skills across GE’s many businesses. Though technology would have allowed for a significantly virtual enterprise, it was important to Ruh to have a physical building where people could actually be located together.

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Team Chemistry Is the New Holy Grail of Performance Analytics

Harvard Business Review

“Makes teams better” is fast-becoming both an essential ingredient to getting hired and a mission-critical skill-set worth measuring. How might “teamness” improve the time to market performance of new product development efforts? Sports teams, of course, compete in physical time and space.

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