Business Infrastructure
At the core of our consulting services, lies the goal of helping businesses solve problems and achieve manageable and profitable growth through improvements to their business infrastructure. Our expertise lies in providing focused and tailored solutions in each of these areas, establishing best practices and setting the foundation for your success​​.​
Systems
In this day and age, construction companies must be savvy with technology. When appropriate systems are implemented, they greatly improve workflows, reduce risk, and automate essential tasks allowing you to focus on other critical areas. Three BC will guide you in discovering, improving, and implementing systems related to:
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Accounting
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CRM (client relations management)
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Estimating
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Project Management
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Scheduling
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Production
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Communication and collaboration
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Processes
Balancing the right amount of process with action is critical. With intelligently and collaboratively crafted processes, a framework is established to standardize common workflows creating continuity across your business operations and project delivery. This reduces risk, creates predictable outcomes, reduces uncertainty, shortens training times, and builds the necessary foundations for growth. Three BC will help in areas related to:
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Safety
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Business operations
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Estimating
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Project Management
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Scheduling
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Communication and collaboration
Scenarios
We wanted to share a few scenarios which may resonate with your particular situation. Drawing from our extensive and diverse background, we certainly relate to all of these scenarios which informs our approach in guiding your company towards manageable and profitable growth.
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Emerging
You are just getting your business off the ground and want to build a strong foundation to grow upon. You have the basic infrastructure in place, but need help in establishing other areas of your business or to solve a specific challenge. You find yourself spending hours scouring the internet finding pieces of the answer, but are realizing a focused approach from someone who has already overcome these hurdles can help you steer clear of pitfalls and boost your growth.
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Flying to close too the sun
You are a great craftsperson and finally went out on your own. You are up to your eyeballs in work and the money is flowing in. However, you have this nagging feeling you are flying too close to the sun and will get burned at any moment. A lack of systems, process, or structure have you stressed, tired, and running around putting out fires. While this is all still exciting, you are missing the good ole days when you could leave your work at the jobsite and enjoy time with your family. You know there is a better way and just need to make the commitment to a partner who can help you put out the fires and strategize sustainable growth.
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Terminal velocity
You are an established business and have made a name for yourself. You have aspirations of growing your business but are stuck at a plateau. You are spending all your time working IN the business, and not ON the business which is stifling growth. You have a solid grasp of what next steps are, but need someone who understands your situation and has focused solutions to boost your efforts and ideas, giving you the tools to break through.
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Growing Pains
You are an established business growing at a rapid pace. You are experiencing significant "growing pains" which are really just symptoms of your systems, processes, and strategies lagging behind. You are great at what you do, but need guidance before your growth becomes a liability and are plagued by staff turnover.
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Major Implementation
You are an established business with solid systems and processes. You are outgrowing some of your current systems and need to adopt a more robust platform to take your business to the next level. You are looking for a partner to help you find the right solution(s), create processes around their use, and implement the platform(s) across the company to maximize adoption and realize your ROI as soon as possible.
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Director of Innovation
You are a larger contractor with multiple major projects. You are not large enough to hire a full time director of innovation, but are finding that project teams are creating their own workflows to solve issues which your current systems or processes fall short on. Ideas are getting siloed, and you are concerned about productivity as efforts are being duplicated and the wheel is getting re-invented. You need someone to help consolidate ideas and distill them into best practices for the company. You also need someone with an eye on the forefront of technology to ensure appropriate solutions are adopted to maintain a competitive edge.
photo by: Mike Liggett, Martin Army Community Hospital Construction