Petroglyph Project Analytics
141 Cambridge Street
Victoria, BC V8V 4B1
Canada
It’s widely understood that scheduling regular dental appointments is crucial for maintaining overall health, happiness, and success. We recognize that our oral health significantly impacts other bodily systems, and we proactively take steps to prevent issues before they arise. However, this proactive mindset is often ignored in business.
As Warren Buffett observed, “Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing,” and yet internal check-ups are not regular practice in business today despite their known power to help owners and executives understand and mitigate risks effectively and manage most efficiently.
Just as undetected dental problems can lead to serious health issues, inefficient business processes can result in significant setbacks. By conducting regular ‘health checks’ on these components, we can address potential problems early, ensuring smoother operations and long-term success. Ignoring this approach can lead to missed opportunities, decreased productivity, and hidden costs.
A “health check” of client operations systems assesses various aspects of their business, from workflow and processes to tools and systems. These checks can focus on one aspect of operations or be comprehensive across all systems. The most commonly found areas for improvement are:
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- Schedule Quality
- Risk Management
- Inefficient Processes
- Incorrect Application of Tools
- Centralized Schedule Management
- Change Management
At Petroglyph, as experts in driving exceptional outcomes for companies executing construction projects worldwide, we not only apply this to our own business but also assist our clients. By leveraging our deep expertise in project management and workflow, we evaluate their processes. While we often support our clients in their time of greatest need, it is truly rewarding when we can help a client with a systems health check, streamline operations, avoid costs, and gain efficiencies. So if any of the above areas of your business might benefit from a check-up, our expertise is available and PLEASE FEEL FREE TO MESSAGE ME TO START A CONVERSATION.
Just as you wouldn’t skip regular dental appointments to ensure your oral health, businesses should not neglect routine health checks for their processes and tools, such as software. By doing so, they can catch potential issues early, much like identifying a cavity before it becomes a root canal.
As Peter Drucker famously said, “What gets measured gets managed.” Proactively scheduling these check-ups ensures not just the longevity of the business but its continued growth and success. So, just as you mark your calendar for your next dental visit or physical, schedule a health check for your business processes.
Lorne Duncan, CEO, Petroglyph Projects
How Savvy Canadian Construction Companies Are Increasing Profitability with Powerproject
In an economy booming with significant government investment in Canadian infrastructure, small and medium-sized construction companies will be busier than ever.
However, busy and profitable are not the same thing.
The opportunity to boost margins and significantly grow the business is real, but that hinges on the repeatable and successful execution of complex project budgets and deadlines.
Increased success lies in optimizing project plans
The importance of the accuracy and reliability of the project plan cannot be overstated.
With an accurate plan and effective construction project management, the team can optimize resources, solve clashes and delays before they occur on the ground, and accurately plot the critical path to project success. These practices can translate into enormous cost savings and increased profits, but the success of the project also hinges on a reliable plan.
For small and medium-sized companies who may not have full-time planning staff, creating, updating and editing the project plan may fall to the project manager or foreman. At times other team members who may not have a formal scheduling background may contribute.
It’s common in the case of smaller companies especially to use inexpensive and readily available tools such as Excel, MS Project, or other project management tools to create the construction project schedule. Still, other companies use hand-drawn march or Gantt charts.
No matter what tool is being used to create the construction project plan, the time allocated to creating and editing the project plan is a non-trivial use of resources and is another element to factor into project costs.
Using the right tool to plan construction projects dramatically improves performance
To improve margins, reduce costs and planning time more Canadian construction companies are discovering a tool that construction leaders in the US and UK have known about for decades.
Introducing Powerproject: A Simply Better Scheduling Tool
Powerproject construction planning tool is the preferred choice of small, medium and enterprise level construction companies.
With over 100,000 users worldwide, Powerproject construction planning tool takes a different approach.
Powerproject construction planning tool really supports & optimizes the way you already work:
Instead of making inaccurate assumptions about how construction planners work, Powerproject’s planning tool for construction projects has been developed based on the workflow, ideas, logic and input from real construction planners.
The result:
- Easy To Use: Intuitive Draw, Drag & Drop interface
- One Click Management: Filters for managing subcontractors and one click to produce an accurate Critical Path Analysis.
- Real Time Progress Reports: Via On-Site Mobile Updates
- Truly Affordable: Concurrent licensing options
- Precision: Robust Resource, Cost and Revenue Features
- Peace of Mind: Get a more accurate schedule with superior linking and viewing of task relationships as well as unlimited undo / redo
- Protection: Show earned value and reduce or eliminate liabilities from project delays
Simply put, Powerproject construction planning tool takes the headaches out of planning and reporting on complex projects.
The decades of collaboration with construction professionals is immediately obvious within minutes of using Powerproject.
Valuable for both scheduling pros and those who aren’t particularly tech savvy, confident with or familiar with classic planning methods.
Templates, unlimited undo capability and a truly easy to use interface does reduce the learning curve, intimidation factor and time spent project planning, for all team members.
And once the project is underway, accurate and reliable progress data is available at the click of a button.
Of course, the schedule can be seamlessly exported to XER and any number of file formats that are required by project owners or other parties.
Imagine, if each project that began this year reports even modest 10% decrease in scheduling and budget overages and a 10% reduction in planning time?
What could those types of improvements mean for the reputation, opportunities and bottom line of the construction company you work with?
We suggest the impacts could be tremendous this year, and all the years that follow.
We invite you to find out what over 100,000 construction pros already know.