by steve | Sep 3, 2019 | 04-TECHNOLOGY, MATERIALS & TOOLS, 06-BUILDING PROCESSES & OPERATIONS, Blog Posts, Replace Pictures for old content
If you ever played on a seesaw in your younger years, you know that it helps to have a partner of approximately equal weight as yourself on the seat facing you. This way, the seesaw situation attains a kind of dynamic equilibrium, and both partners get to enjoy the...
by steve | Sep 3, 2019 | 03_GLOBAL TRENDS SHAPING THE INDUSTRIES FUTURE, 06-BUILDING PROCESSES & OPERATIONS, Blog Posts, Replace Pictures for old content
One evening in 1983, I was drinking beers with a friend and discussing how I was going to turn my current carpentry work into a robust building and design business. As we were talking, I jotted down a few notes on a napkin to sketch out the principles of a successful...
by steve | Jul 21, 2019 | 03_GLOBAL TRENDS SHAPING THE INDUSTRIES FUTURE, 04-TECHNOLOGY, MATERIALS & TOOLS, 06-BUILDING PROCESSES & OPERATIONS, 07-STRATEGY & BUSINESS MODEL INNOVATION, 09-INDUSTRY COLLABORATION, 13-INDUSTRY INFORMATION, FACTS & KNOWLEDGE, Blog Posts, Replace Pictures for old content
Eureka! Have you ever found yourself driving down the highway obsessing over a seemingly impossible problem Then, all of a sudden, you hear something on the radio, or see a billboard or a license plate, or an oddly dressed passenger in another car, and… Eureka!...
by steve | Mar 25, 2019 | 06-BUILDING PROCESSES & OPERATIONS, 07-STRATEGY & BUSINESS MODEL INNOVATION, 08-PEOPLE ORGANIZATION & CULTURE, Blog Posts, Replace Pictures for old content
“It’s not brain surgery.” The saying implies that the activity in question is relatively simple in comparison with the difficulty of operating on the human brain. There may be some truth to this saying—but NOT if it is applied to the building process. Consider that a...
by | Feb 25, 2019 | 06-BUILDING PROCESSES & OPERATIONS, 07-STRATEGY & BUSINESS MODEL INNOVATION, Did You Know? (DYK)
Did you know the rate of urbanization, i.e., the changing of land from forest or agricultural uses to suburban and urban uses, is increasing by 15% from 2010 – 2015? Urban land area is 106,386 square miles, or 3% of total land area in the U.S., and is projected...
by steve | Jan 23, 2019 | 05-DIGITIZATION, MODELING, DATA & ANALYTICS, 06-BUILDING PROCESSES & OPERATIONS, 07-STRATEGY & BUSINESS MODEL INNOVATION, 10-INDUSTRY MARKETING, Blog Posts, IV_GUEST CONTRIBUTIONS, Replace Pictures for old content
When you look at the image that introduces this blog post, do you the think the modular structure of the present or the past is of higher quality? Do you even think of classical Greek Temples as modular construction? In the classical period of Western civilization,...
