8:00 am Chair’s Opening Remarks
Building Your Operational Excellence Strategy
8:10 am Developing Your Data Analytics Strategy to Become a True Business Intelligence Organization
Synopsis
- Creating more data-driven roles in your company to successfully adapt towards a more data-driven market
- Investigating where more data-driven approaches would best suit your company to minimize disruption of already functional processes
- Understanding how data can translate to discovery of operational inefficiencies to effectively utilize it and achieve operational excellence
8:50 am Panel: Connecting with Senior Leadership on the Benefits of Operational Excellence to Secure Buy-In to Resources & Processes
Synopsis
- Approaching strategic planning with all executive leaders in the room to build and execute operational excellence strategy and goals
- Devising the most effective solutions across departments and throughout management that will result in the highest ROI
- Tackling the pushback from senior management on updating policies and processes when there’s a ‘if it isn’t broken, don’t fix it’ mentality
10:00 am
Speed Networking & Morning Refreshments
10:40 am Audience Discussion: Assessing Your Firm’s Operational Excellence Goals to Implement the Most Effective Strategy
Synopsis
- Discovering the most inefficient areas of your business to correctly prioritize the direction of your strategy
- Investigating how your current operational excellence strategy filters through your company to discover existing silos
- Learning how to accurately and effectively collaborate across departments to equip your firm with the tools to constantly evaluate and remove waste from your processes
11:20 am Establishing a Top-Down, Bottom-Up Operational Excellence Strategy to Ensure Every Employee Has an Operational Excellence Mindset
Synopsis
- Transferring day-to-day operational excellence decision-making to every employee to free up time for senior management to focus on overarching strategy and identification of new trends
- Equipping field workers with operational excellence training to provide them with knowledge on executing lean processes, continuous improvement, and process improvement
- Rolling out new processes effectively to minimize additional workloads and prevent employees from losing motivation
12:00 pm
Lunch Break
TRACK 1
Strategizing Operational Excellence
Strategizing Operational Excellence
Empowering Employees Through Cultural Change
1:00 pm Incentivizing Employees to Embrace New Processes & Technologies to Support Firmwide Innovation
Synopsis
- Allowing employees to volunteer in operational excellence programs so they feel a part of the process and not just a guest in it
- Encouraging innovation from employees to achieve operational excellence, so employees have a vested interest in watching new processes succeed
- Discussing methods for incentivizing employees to bring issues to the table and test new processes and frameworks to solve these issues
1:40 pm Nurturing a Culture of Sharing Lessons Learned to Build the Knowledge Cycle for Continuous Improvement
Synopsis
- Creating a culture of collaboratively recovering from errors to foster an environment of transparency and a team-wide effort to learn from mistakes
- Devising solutions to disjointed access to ‘lessons learned’ so workers on different projects and departments don’t make the same mistakes
- Creating a database of case studies so employees have something to turn to in order to rectify errors
2:20 pm Case Study: Investing in a Lean Champion Program to Equip Every Employee With the Tools They Need to Utilize Lean in the Workplace
Synopsis
- Providing comprehensive education on how your company functions so employees can understand why their role is meaningful
- Creating a mentorship system so employees can ask questions and have a deeper connection to upwards mobility within the company
- Aligning hearts and hands on projects to connect team members to the overall goal of a project
TRACK 2
Executing Operational Excellence
Executing Operational Excellence
Achieving Project Excellence
1:00 pm Building a Resilient Supply Chain During Times of Uncertainty to Mitigate Delays & Shorten Lead Times
Synopsis
- Driving early procurement and incorporating a contingency plan to prepare for unexpected delays
- Collaborating with all contractors, designers, clients and suppliers from the outset of a project to better understand schedule expectations
- Sharing best practices with trades and suppliers to mitigate market volatility and supply chain issues ahead of time
1:40 pm How Construction Leaders are Prioritizing Process Automation in 2023 & Saving Over $80,000 Annually
Synopsis
- The current digital landscape and the roadmap for technology in the construction industry
- How construction leaders are transforming their organizations with resilient and efficient process automation
- Expert advice on how to support growth in your organization in 2023
2:20 pm Panel: Driving Project Team Collaboration to Align All Project Partners on Goals & Expectations
Synopsis
- Improving communication with clients to handle their requested changes to a project with minimal setbacks
- Working with design teams to track actual progress and proactively handle unforeseen alterations to minimize disruption on projects
- Fostering a culture of collaboration between general contractors and trades to align on clients’ goals and project processes
- Utilizing a collaborative close out process to capture lessons learned for future and ongoing projects
3:00 pm Prioritizing Quality & Safety on the Jobsite: How Can We Equate Safety & Quality to Schedules & Budgets?
Synopsis
- Making more robust quality and safety procedures to account for inexperienced workers and compressed schedules increasing the risk on a project
- Creating highly effective safety education to successfully limit accidents in the field
- Driving an effective quality culture and mindset to ensure QA/QC processes are adhered to on every project
3:10 pm Afternoon Refreshments
TRACK 1
Strategizing Operational Excellence
Strategizing Operational Excellence
Driving Cross-Functional Collaboration
3:40 pm Case Study: Optimizing Communication Across Departments to Minimize Duplicated Work & Maximize Cross-Functional Integration
Synopsis
- Understanding how departments can better collaborate to minimize knock on disruption to workflows in the face of change
- Discussing best practices for aligning roles and responsibilities across departments to abolish fractured project execution and streamline handovers
- Revealing how to establish a connected data stream between departments to create a single source of truth for project data
4:30 pm Improving Alignment Between Senior Management & the Field to Ensure Coherent Strategy & Project Delivery
Synopsis
- Creating transparency on senior leadership roles and workloads so employees in the field aren’t alienated from office workers
- Establishing a feedback channel between executives and field employees so senior leadership can ensure field employees feel valued and motivated in their roles
- Improving on-site environments to better field employees’ engagement in their work
TRACK 2
Executing Operational Excellence
Executing Operational Excellence
Optimizing Project Performance
3:40 pm Establishing a System to Effectively Track & Utilize Real-Time Project Data to Identify & Eliminate Process Inefficiencies
Synopsis
- Devising a process that will lead to increased accuracy of data collection to inform project decision-making
- Standardizing how data is collected across your firm to streamline progress tracking on every project
- Integrating data streams between project partners to create a cohesive picture of the schedule and cost
4:30 pm Case Study: Implementing a Production Planning & Tracking System at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center ($2B) to Inform Workforce Planning
Synopsis
- Using predictive analytics to proactively prevent obstacles occurring and measure project performance
- Digesting the information from dashboards to transform it into a clear picture on the progress of your project for clients
- Building your workforce planning strategy from the data collected to inform the project’s resources