Insight
Team. Up.
Team: Up!
What next? So many good options...
The entrepreneur in me can't help but recognize the inadequacies in the OpenRoads support ecosystem. I've been weighing whether to go all in - again - and help fill that void. I've done it before. I could do it again. The industry need is bigger than it's ever been...
But I've felt a deep vague reluctance to take that plunge again. The heart is often way ahead of the brain, so I've been working on some side projects until my brain catches up.
Ahh, got it.
Training and Consulting gigs tend to be short, transactional. A great deal of the work is one-offs, particularly early on. Ultimately, some of my most best work and most valued friendships grew from the partnerships that developed. But independence is mostly transactional, transient. Relationship Quantity.
Quantity is not enough.
Designing for Quality Systems has long been a compulsion. Apparently, I now have a need to ensure - to design for - Quality Relationships.
Continuity.
Shared vision. Shared growth.
Partnerships, from the get-go.
Teams.
Driving forward, upward. Together.
Team: Up!
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I'm at an interesting point in my career.
I'm past the point of experimentation. I know what I value, and I know my value:
Connect. Design to Empower. Serve.
I'm good at this. I'll never waver from it. I don't want to. I don't think I can.
Connecting is Step 1. You serve best when you know who you serve and what their needs are. There are myriad tools to facilitate Connection.
Prioritizing is Step 2. What do you prioritize? Growth Opportunities.
Recognizing Adjacent Opportunities is Step 3. Low hanging fruit. What do you already know that you can easily apply to make a difference?
I'm most inspired by this ongoing Integration Revolution - the most exciting time I've seen in 35 years in our industry.
It's more than just the lessening of paper at the DOT level - it's Integrated Project Delivery, it's Digital Construction Delivery, it's Digital Twins, it's Reality Modeling.
It's the end of Siloed Value. The end of the Waste Cycle of: finding it, organizing it, using it - and then abandoning it.
I want to be a part of driving this revolution: http://drivetherevolution.net/
This Integration Revolution is also a huge growth opportunity for companies. More service to existing clients; more clients.
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The Oberth effect is an astrodynamic effect where the same amount of work or effort at the right point can achieve signifcantly greater effect than applied at other points.
The Oberth effect is a mathematically predictable and measureable example of you can get much more value out of effort when you're moving at high speed than when you're moving slowly. Using the same amount of fuel at high speeds adds more energy (speed) than at low speeds. |
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From a work standpoint, formal training, especially on-site, can boost productivity because of the preparartions that occur prior to training. Companies tend to want to get the most out of the time and expense of multi-day training, so they tend to prepare for it. Preparations in thinking about their business processes, their weaknesses in collaboration, design and production workflows, etc. mobilize the team that attends the training as well as the greater organization. The benefit of the investment in training is as much as what happens before the event as during the event.
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The Six-Ball Juggle
Designing Better workflows
Summary (the Takeaway)
How do you:
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- Simplify the Project
- Speed the Workflow
- Improve Quality
- Solve Resource Issues
- Improve Morale
- Prevent my biggest regret as a Parent
Juggle fewer balls.
Do this:
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- Skeptically re-evaluate your assumptions about the requirements.
- Be skeptical that your Six Ball Juggler's workflow is actually the best workflow.
- Bring in Circus Experts, talk to Entertainment Experts, Talk to Peers.
- Design your workflow for Quality
- Design your workflow for Clarity
- Design your workflow for multiple talent threshholds
- Design your workflow to be sustainable
Here's the Powerpoint Presentation: The Six-Ball Juggle (slideshow)
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