The STRUXI BuildTech Talks Vlog series covers topics about technological transformation in the construction industry. Each episode, your hosts, Matt Vercauteren, Product Owner at STRUXI, and Roger Eineichner, Director of Learning at STRUXI, will interview some of the construction industry's leading firms to discover how they're infusing the latest technologies on their jobsites.
In the premiere episode of the STRUXI BuildTech Talks series, STRUXI's Matt Vercauteren and Roger Eineichner sit down with Ryan Hale, Chief Information Officer and Director of Strategic Initiatives at Lithko Contracting, LLC, to talk about common procedural pain points on their construction sites.
Lithko is the second largest concrete contractor in the nation, with 18 offices and 3,000 employees. In 2017, Lithko was operating on a series of spreadsheets and a green screen ERP system. Over the past few years, Lithko has implemented SmartBid and STRUXI's labor productivity suite, powered by Penta Technologies, to increase their technological infusion.
Lithko was named a US Best Managed Company in May 2020 by Deloitte and a winner in the Tech Team of the Year category by Cincinnati Business Courier in July 2020 for their embrace of SmartBid and the STRUXI labor productivity suite.
Now that you've identified far too many pains to address them all at once, how do you go about deciding which are most important? Ryan & Lithko prioritize and communicate that prioritization through a technology roadmap.
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If you've successfully determined your high-priority pain points, it's time to assemble your roadmap team. In this episode, Matt, Roger & Ryan cover building a team to tackle the top-priority procedural pains in your organization.
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Now that you’ve identified your high-priority pain points and assembled a team to take them on, how does your team create a plan to tackle them? We’ll help you map that out in this episode. In this episode, Matt, Roger & Ryan provide advice and insights into the change implementation process.
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In this episode, Matt, Roger & Ryan talk about the concept of failure: when it’s bad, acceptable, and, even, good. Learn how to embrace failure as an opportunity to effectively learn and grow your business as Matt, Roger, and Ryan chat about all things failure.
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In the final episode of the BuildTech Talks Vlog series featuring Ryan Hale of Lithko Contracting, LLC, Matt, Roger & Ryan discuss the importance of continuous communication with all segments of an organization during change implementation.
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