Reading an article by Sam Grobart in Bloomberg Businessweek entitled Robot Workers: Coexistence Is Possible (December 2012, ) about human workers loosing out to robots. He discusses the many things that a robot simply cannot do. That got me thinking about the changes that the AEC industry is going through with new technologies and programs…
Ponder this question: If you were to design your business today, from scratch, what would it look like? Would you use the same processes? Would you use technology in a new way? Would you spend more time with clients? Would you interact differently with other teams of people on the same project? Would the value…
If you want to grow your profits, I urge you to do 2 things: first, look at how to both distinguish and create a higher value offering. Second, look at how you would change your current offering to highlight only the most valuable areas, minimize or mechanize the low value areas and rid yourself of…
I was talking to my son’s eye doctor, Dr. Gary Etting. He treats eyes as a system that works with your brain and so rather than just ratchet up your prescription he suggests other things you can do to help reduce nearsighted-ness. These include simple exercises such as relaxing your eyes when you are walking…
Yes, this is one of the new words floating around these days. Consumers are demanding it, employees are demanding it – it is a new transparency climate. We don’t purchase anything without reading the rankings or reviews of it first online. And yes, you can find just about anything online about anything: The good, the…