Laying the Foundation for Profitable Projects and Eliminating Waste: Job Information
One of the most important requirements for running profitable projects is creating job packages that are accurate and thorough. Job packages can take information OUT of the heads of owners, estimators and project managers and INTO the hands of your field personnel – who can execute with better accuracy and efficiency.
Thinking Like Owners – Understanding the Big Picture
How much more efficient could your company be if you had 3 more people thinking like owners rather than like employees?
Health + Safety – The Cost of Not Being Compliant
Health and safety is often ignored by small business owners. Most try to be safe, but don’t bother to understand what it takes to be compliant. But a warning… fines for health and safety violations are serious enough to put most small companies OUT OF BUSINESS, and everyone deserves to go home safe.
The Challenges of Building Business Systems
For small businesses one of the most difficult challenges to overcome is creating roles and responsibilities for all staff. The responsibilities must outline who does what, when, where, why at what speed and quality. This applies to Sales…Administration….Operations. This article will offer some examples of how process can be used to improve staff performance in all areas of your business.
Identifying Challenges to Change
By identifying obstacles to change we can slowly work on making improvements to our business. It’s like building a puzzle – you start with chaos and eventually move to order. You can grow your business for sure…….but the question is are you becoming a better run business, and how quickly is this change happening if at all?
Laying the Foundation for Profitable Projects and Eliminating Waste: The Design
In this post, we’ll take a look at the first step in creating a foundation for repeatable, profitable design build project management and execution. This post will focus on step one: the design.
Fixing problems…. the SMART way
Every business is overwhelmed with problems. People problems, production problems, customer problems… every business has them. However, some businesses are able to deal with problems much more capably than others. What is their secret?
Where Did My Profit Go?
Increase your company’s bottom line by fixing the way your company adds profit to its estimates.
Building a Sales and Marketing Plan for Landscapers
The success of a landscape business depends on many factors, both internal and external, but perhaps the most important of these factors is the ability to attract and retain customers. Customers generate your company revenue, and it’s this factor that keeps your business moving forward.
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Danscaping – Building a Sales Budget
Dan and Bill will discuss the next key component of his operating budget: the field labor budget.
