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Break Glass in Case of Emergency 0

Preparing your organization for the inevitable “hiccup” or roadblock By Gregg M. Schoppman, FMI Corp Reflecting on the worldwide cyber outage in mid-2025 has been an eye-opening experience. This is certainly not about technology or redundancy, but there are certainly nuggets that could be gathered in that bucket. This is about how the firm prepares

What Does It Mean to be a Woman in Construction?0

By Sonya Bohmann, Construction Industry Alliance for Suicide Prevention When the first week of March comes up each year, any woman who works adjacent to the industry or adjacent to the field in this industry questions, “Am I a woman in construction?” Construction has always been an industry defined by grit, precision, and resilience. But

Discipline and the Science of Resource Allocation 0
- Best Practices, Improving Productivity, Leadership
- January 27, 2026
An examination in how to return to profitability By Gregg Schoppman, FMI Corp Construction demonstrates the ultimate in extreme comparisons. Gluttony or starvation. For what seems like the better part of the last 10-15 years – minus a short COVID holiday – the industry has seen unbridled growth in just about every sector. Construction organizations
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Building a Dream Team: Strategies for Workforce Success 0
- Leadership, Legally Speaking, Outlook & Trends, Workforce & Professional Development
- December 23, 2025
By Karalynn Cromeens, The Cromeens Law Firm PLLC The labor market has presented immense challenges for subcontractors in recent years. Many of us experienced the shock of the “Great Resignation,” watching valued team members leave and struggling to fill the void. With more job openings than available workers, attracting and retaining talent became a battle.
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Strategy Over Process 0
- Improving Productivity, Leadership, Risk Management
- December 23, 2025
By Chad Prinkey, Well Built Construction Consulting The Case for Processes Much of our work with our clients involves process development and process implementation around operating every facet of their business. The benefits of using well-documented and thoroughly trained processes are hard to overstate. In addition to creating more consistently positive results when processes are
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