Tag: Business Development
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How to Make Experimentation Part of the Everyday – A Presentation
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Reducing Uncertainty in Construction – Interview with Brittanie Campbell-Turner
Brittanie Campbell-Turner is a Construction Management professional and a podcast host. In this interview, we discuss construction productivity, ways to make it better, and the Constructrr podcast. Here’s what Brittanie says about herself and her podcast: “I’ve been servicing the engineering and construction management industry for 10+ years having specialized in project controls and schedule management. I’m…
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The Agile Construction Company – Interview with Pirita Vainio of NCC Group
I had the pleasure of meeting with Pirita Vainio, Head of Digital and Innovation at NCC Group. In this podcast interview, we discuss how a newcomer to the industry brought agile practices into a construction company. NCC Group is actively exploring agile methods such as Scrum and Kanban. What is agile? Agile is the term…
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A Culture of Innovation – Interview with Daniel Sundlin, Partner at Bjarke Ingels Group
In this podcast interview, my guest is Daniel Sundlin, a partner at Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) in New York. We talk about how BIG innovates and what opportunities and challenges digitalization brings to architecture. BIG is a Copenhagen and New York based group of architects, designers, builders, and thinkers operating within the fields of architecture, urbanism,…
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Popular in 2016 and Plans for 2017
Happy Holidays and an Innovative New Year 2017! A warm thank to all my interviewees, my readers, and those who shared my content on social media. Here are the most popular posts from 2016 and plans for 2017. The Most Popular Posts in 2016 I published 57 posts in 2016. These are the top 10 in popularity: Peter Vesterbacka…
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Benefits and Pitfalls of Partnerships Between Companies
To bring innovations to the market, companies almost always need partnerships. Partnerships can offer scalability, productivity, and open up new markets. However, partnerships are not easy to establish and manage. The benefits of partnering Construction companies have always done joint ventures. The reason has been to simply be able to bid for and deliver a…
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Benefits and Pitfalls of Partnerships Between Companies
To bring innovations to the market, companies almost always need partnerships. Partnerships can offer scalability, productivity, and open up new markets. However, partnerships are not easy to establish and manage. The benefits of partnering Construction companies have always done joint ventures. The reason has been to simply be able to bid for and deliver a…
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My Lessons Learned from Software Development
I’ve been involved in software development in both my own and our clients’ companies. There are a few things that I’ve learned over the years about software development. Perhaps you can find some of these experiences useful. I think that there are basically two paths to software development: problem-based and idea-based. Both approaches can create…
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What is Content Marketing and why AEC Companies need to do it – Interview with Joe Pulizzi
In this podcast episode, I interview Joe Pulizzi, the leading content marketing expert. We talk about why content marketing is valuable for AEC firms, where to start, and how to stay successful. Joe Pulizzi is founder of Content Marketing Institute, the leading education and training organization for content marketing, which includes the largest in-person content marketing event in…
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Strategy and Communication for Architects – Interview with Kasmir Jolma
I met with Kasmir Jolma, a newly graduated Finnish architect, in Helsinki. We discuss his master’s thesis on strategy and communication for architects and how clients see the architect’s role. Here are snippets of the summary of Kasmir’s thesis, published in May 2016 at Tampere University of Technology: “Business development has not been a strength for architectural firms,…