Lean Principle - Pulling vs. Pushing and the Four Most Powerful Words for Improving Productivity
D. Brown Management
August 26, 2018
“What do you need?” are the four most powerful words for improving productivity, developing a team, and building engagement. "Pull-Planning" can be used way beyond building a project. The principle is the foundation for many aspects of life and business.
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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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ABC Daily Planning
D. Brown Management
August 24, 2018
Effective planning processes are the foundation for great production. The planning process can be seen as a series of tighter and tighter concentric circles with the bullseye being the daily plan. Daily feedback improves performance and mitigates risk.
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Planning - Integrating the 4 Key Responsibilities
D. Brown Management
August 23, 2018
Effective planning combined with regular feedback (at least weekly) combined with a structured look at how to improve each week is the key to integrating the four key responsibilities of a Foreman.
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Lean Principle - 3 Enemies of Lean
D. Brown Management
August 20, 2018
Profitable growth comes from operating within a target capacity and capability range - and continually increasing those ranges. Operating with consistent overload, consistent under capacity, or with consistently high variability is not sustainable.
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The Average Field Day in Detail (Craft Labor + Foreman)
D. Brown Management
August 13, 2018
Labor is often the biggest cost variable on a construction project. Just over half the field hours are related to actual installation. Understanding how time is spent on average in the field is the first step to improving field productivity.
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Field Productivity - The Improvement Pyramid
D. Brown Management
August 9, 2018
An improvement of a few minutes per day to actual installation time compounded monthly is worth about $800K per year for a $25M contractor. What is it worth to you? Improvements to field productivity can be viewed as 4 major stages of a pyramid.
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Simple Math of Labor Savings
D. Brown Management
August 8, 2018
What would it be worth for your company to improve your field productivity? There is an incredible amount of low-hanging fruit to be picked when it comes to improving labor productivity.
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Creating The "Perfect Field Day"
D. Brown Management
August 7, 2018
Contractors build things and that comes down to the men and women in the field. They are the ones adding the value to the raw materials and that is ultimately what the customer is paying for.
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Four Critical Elements of an Effective Task
D. Brown Management
March 7, 2018
Maximizing labor productivity starts with defining exactly what needs to be delivered and then breaking it down into tasks that can be effectively managed.
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