Category: Business Development
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Ten Ways to Innovate AEC Services – Part 2
Every company, big or small, can innovate. Companies that don’t innovate end up competing with their peers on the lowest profit. Here are five more ways to start innovating your next service (check out the first five). 6. Radically shorten the lead time How can you make something that takes a week to complete happen in…
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Killer Innovations – Interview with Phil McKinney
Phil McKinney is an award winning innovator of technologies and products used by 100’s of millions of consumers and businesses worldwide. In this interview, Phil shares ideas on how to innovate in the construction industry. In this interview, we discuss What are killer innovations Where to innovate How to use questions as an innovation tool How to brainstorm…
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Ten Ways to Innovate AEC Services – Part 1
Every company, big or small, can innovate. Companies that don’t innovate end up competing with their peers for the lowest profit. Here are five of the ten ways to start innovating your next service. 1. Redefine your customer We tend to think that our customer is the organization that pays our bill. This thinking can…
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The Changing Business Environment of Design in the Construction Industry
The Finnish Association of Consulting Firms (SKOL) organized its annual Consultants’ Day in April. The first presenter was the chairman of SKOL’s board, Markku Moilanen, of the Ramboll Group. His presentation addressed the changing business environment of design. “Big changes are taking place in our business environment. Oftentimes, when we’re talking about our business environment…
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Productization in the Construction Industry: Interview with Granlund
Service productization can help construction companies do better business and have more satisfied clients. AEC Business had the opportunity to interview Mika Virkki, Senior Consultant and Energy Manager at Granlund, a Finnish Helsinki-based company specialized in design, consultancy and software services with expertise in energy efficiency. He told us about their new productized service –…
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AEC Hackathons – Interview with Teemu Lehtinen
In this podcast interview I talk with Teemu Lehtinen, Doctoral Candidate at Aalto University, about AEC Hackathons. The AEC Hackathon gives those designing, building, and maintaining our built environment the opportunity to collaborate with cutting edge technologies and its developers and designers. It’s a weekend of ‘geek-sourcing’ for improving the industries that affect all that…
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Productization in the Construction Industry: Interview with Rapal
Service productization can help construction companies do better business and have more satisfied clients. AEC Business had the opportunity to interview, Anna-Leena Raij, Director of Workplace Management Services at Rapal Oy, a software and services company for work environment developers and infrastructure managers based in Espoo, Finland, to learn how they productized their service and…
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Innovative Ideas for Managing Your Contracting Business
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State of experimentation survey
Construction industry companies of any size can develop and improve their business through experiments. Experimentation is a great, cost-effective way to explore new opportunities, learn new things, and implement what you’ve learned. We’re conducting a survey to understand if and how construction industry firms experiment, and we invite you to participate. What is the survey…
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Selling Your Idea: Understand What You Are Selling and Set Goals
Despite that the construction industry is often considered conservative, there is always plenty of room for fresh ideas. Original ideas are the reason businesses can innovate their offerings much more quickly, continue providing better services to the customers, and grow profitably. The challenge is to sell your idea to your peers or to your customers.…