05678nam 2200745 450 991013914360332120230323143917.01-118-83713-41-118-85245-11-118-83704-5(CKB)2550000001272917(EBL)1638686(SSID)ssj0001212327(PQKBManifestationID)11695162(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001212327(PQKBWorkID)11206706(PQKB)11732750(OCoLC)875884941(MiAaPQ)EBC1638686(CaSebORM)9781118837139(Au-PeEL)EBL1638686(CaPaEBR)ebr10856789(CaONFJC)MIL595044(OCoLC)906041001(EXLCZ)99255000000127291720140413h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrManaging the profitable construction business the contractor's guide to success and survival strategies /Thomas C. Schleifer, Kenneth T. Sullivan, John M. Murdough ; C. Wallace, cover design2nd ed.Hoboken, New Jersey :Wiley,2014.©20141 online resource (282 p.)Includes index.1-118-83694-4 1-306-63793-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.MANAGING THE PROFITABLE CONSTRUCTION BUSINESS; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; HOW TO USE THIS BOOK; ABOUT THE AUTHORS; PART 1; 1 MANAGING WITH CONFIDENCE; 1.1 LESSONS LEARNED; 1.2 OBJECTIVES OF THIS BOOK; 1.3 MANAGING AREAS OF RISK; 1.4 RECOGNIZING SIGNS OF POTENTIAL TROUBLE; 1.5 LAYERS OF MANAGEMENT; 1.6 OWNER VERSUS TOP MANAGEMENT; 1.7 DISCIPLINING PERFORMANCE; 1.8 BOARDS OF DIRECTORS; 1.9 ACCOUNTABILITY; 1.10 SELECTING THE MEMBERS; 1.11 IMPORTANCE OF CREDIT; 1.12 VOLUME VERSUS PROFIT; 1.13 EMPLOYEE BENEFITS AND COMPENSATION; 1.14 BORROWING; 1.15 BUSINESS PLANNINGCHAPTER REVIEW QUESTIONSCRITICAL THINKING AND DISCUSSION QUESTIONS; NOTES; 2 ELEMENTS OF CONTRACTOR FAILURE; 2.1 CAPITALIZING ON EXPERIENCE; 2.2 INCREASE IN PROJECT SIZE; 2.3 UNFAMILIARITY WITH NEW GEOGRAPHIC AREAS; 2.4 MOVING INTO NEW TYPES OF CONSTRUCTION; 2.5 CHANGES IN KEY PERSONNEL; 2.6 LACK OF MANAGERIAL MATURITY IN EXPANDING ORGANIZATIONS; CHAPTER REVIEW QUESTIONS; CRITICAL THINKING AND DISCUSSION QUESTIONS; NOTES; 3 INCREASE IN PROJECT SIZE; 3.1 LIMITS OF GROWTH; 3.2 INCREASED RISKS WITH LARGER PROJECTS; 3.3 CASE STUDY; 3.4 CASE STUDY REVIEW; 3.5 UNDERESTIMATING THE SIZE3.6 OWNERS AND RETAINAGE3.7 ALLOCATING TIME; 3.8 ALTERNATIVES TO TAKING ON LARGE PROJECTS; 3.9 CONCLUSION; CHAPTER REVIEW QUESTIONS; CRITICAL THINKING AND DISCUSSION QUESTIONS; NOTES; 4 CHANGE IN GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION; 4.1 DEFINING "NORMAL AREA"; 4.2 REASONS FOR CHANGING GEOGRAPHIC AREA; 4.3 CASE STUDY: LONG DISTANCE PROJECT; 4.4 REVIEW OF THE LONG DISTANCE PROJECT CASE STUDY; 4.5 MANAGING THE RISK WITH LONG DISTANCE PROJECTS; 4.6 CASE STUDY: REGIONAL OFFICE; 4.7 REVIEW OF THE REGIONAL OFFICE CASE STUDY; 4.8 THE NEED FOR PERSONAL ATTENTION; 4.9 OPENING A REGIONAL OFFICE4.10 REGIONAL OFFICE CONTINGENCY PLAN4.11 CONCLUSION; CHAPTER REVIEW QUESTIONS; CRITICAL THINKING AND DISCUSSION QUESTIONS; NOTES; 5 CHANGING OR ADDING TO TYPE OF CONSTRUCTION PERFORMED; 5.1 REASONS FOR CHANGES IN TYPE OF WORK; 5.2 CHALLENGE: LACK OF EXPERIENCE; 5.3 CHALLENGE: DIFFERENCES THAT APPEAR SUBTLE; 5.4 RESOLUTION: KNOW YOUR SPECIALTY; 5.5 BACKGROUND TO CASE STUDIES; 5.6 CASE STUDY 1; 5.7 CASE STUDY 2; 5.8 EXAMPLE: UNION VERSUS OPEN SHOP; 5.9 KNOW THE RISKS; 5.10 VOLUME VERSUS PROFIT ALTERNATIVE; 5.11 WITHDRAWAL PLAN; 5.12 CONCLUSION; CHAPTER REVIEW QUESTIONSCRITICAL THINKING AND DISCUSSION QUESTIONSNOTES; 6 REPLACE KEY PERSONNEL; 6.1 IDENTIFYING KEY PEOPLE; 6.2 PARTNERS; 6.3 FOUNDERS AND SUCCESSION; 6.4 INACTIVE FOUNDERS; 6.5 SUCCESSION CASE STUDY; 6.6 NEW MANAGEMENT TEAM; 6.7 ADDING KEY PERSONNEL; 6.8 MANAGEMENT "DILUTION"; 6.9 SUMMARY; CHAPTER REVIEW QUESTIONS; CRITICAL THINKING AND DISCUSSION QUESTIONS; NOTES; 7 MANAGERIAL MATURITY; 7.1 START-UP CONSTRUCTION COMPANIES; 7.2 IMPORTANCE OF MANAGEMENT SKILLS; 7.3 COMPANY GROWTH PHASES; 7.4 LIMIT OF MANAGERIAL EFFECTIVENESS; 7.5 COMPANY GROWTH AND MANAGEMENT THRESHOLDS7.6 TELLTALE SIGNS OF INSUFFICIENT MANAGERIAL MATURITYThis book is based on Dr. Schleifer's 45 years experience, a combination of practical, hands-on work as a contractor and his work assisting financially distressed companies. This has given Dr. Schleifer a unique perspective on the causes of business failure and how to avoid them. His no-nonsense philosophy is: ""We cannot control the market, but we can control our response to it.""Part one of each chapter focuses on potential causes of contractor failure and how to avoid them. Schleifer's methods are largely based on data from his 8 years as a surety consultant inConstruction industryFinanceConstruction industryManagementContracting outConstruction industryFinance.Construction industryManagement.Contracting out.690.0681Schleifer Thomas C.877341Sullivan Kenneth T.Murdough. John MWallace C.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910139143603321Managing the profitable construction business2145638UNINA06113nam 22007695 450 991034941130332120251225203510.09783319986487331998648110.1007/978-3-319-98648-7(CKB)4100000006098173(DE-He213)978-3-319-98648-7(MiAaPQ)EBC6298796(PPN)229916090(EXLCZ)99410000000609817320180810d2018 u| 0engurnn#008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierBusiness Process Management 16th International Conference, BPM 2018, Sydney, NSW, Australia, September 9–14, 2018, Proceedings /edited by Mathias Weske, Marco Montali, Ingo Weber, Jan vom Brocke1st ed. 2018.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Springer,2018.1 online resource (XXIII, 514 p. 118 illus.)Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI,2946-1642 ;110809783319986470 3319986473 Reflections on BPM -- BPM: Foundations, Engineering, Management -- Bringing Middleware to Everyday Programmers with Ballerina -- Track I: Concepts and Methods in Business Process Modeling and Analysis -- Open to Change: A Theory for Iterative Test-Driven Modelling -- Construction Process Modeling: Representing Activities, Items and their Interplay -- Feature-Oriented Composition of Declarative Artifact-Centric Process Models -- Animating Multiple Instances in BPMN Collaborations: from Formal Semantics to Tool Support -- Managing Decision Tasks and Events in Time-aware Business Process Models -- Track I: Foundations of Process Discovery -- Interestingness of Traces in Declarative Process Mining: The Janus LTLpf Approach -- Unbiased, Fine-Grained Description of Processes Performance from Event Data -- Abstract-and-Compare: A Family of Scalable Precision Measures for Automated Process Discovery -- Correlating Activation and Target Conditions in Data-Aware Declarative Process Discovery -- Track II: Alignments and Conformance Checking -- Efficiently Computing Alignments using the Extended Marking Equation -- An Evolutionary Technique to Approximate Multiple Optimal Alignments -- Maximizing Synchronization for Aligning Observed and Modelled Behaviour -- Online Conformance Checking Using Behavioural Patterns -- Track II: Process Model Analysis and Machine Learning -- BINet: Multivariate Business Process Anomaly Detection Using Deep Learning -- Finding Structure in the Unstructured: Hybrid Feature Set Clustering for Process Discovery -- act2vec, trace2vec, log2vec, and model2vec: Representation Learning for Business Processes -- Who is behind the Model? Classifying Modelers based on Pragmatic Model Features -- Finding the "Liberos": Discover Organizational Models with Overlaps -- Track III: Digital Process Innovation -- On The Synergies Between Business Process Management and Digital Innovation -- Effective Leadership in BPM Implementations: A Case Study of BPM in a DevelopingCountry, Public Sector Context -- Conceptualizing a Framework to Manage the Short Head and Long Tail of Business Processes -- Using Business Process Compliance Approaches for Compliance Management with regard to Digitization: Evidence from a Systematic Literature Review -- Big Data Analytics as an Enabler of Process Innovation Capabilities: A Configurational Approach -- Track III: Method Analysis and Selection -- Assessing the Quality of Search Process Models -- Predictive Process Monitoring Methods: Which One Suits Me Best -- How Context-aware are Extant BPM Methods and Tools? – Development of an Assessment Scheme -- Process Forecasting: Towards Proactive Business Process Management.This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2018, held in Sydney, Australia, in September 2018. The 27 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 140 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: reflections on BPM; concepts and methods in business process modeling and analysis; foundations of process discovery; alignments and conformance checking; process model analysis and machine learning; digital process innovation; and method analysis and selection.Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI,2946-1642 ;11080Information storage and retrieval systemsApplication softwareData miningElectronic commerceSoftware engineeringArtificial intelligenceInformation Storage and RetrievalComputer and Information Systems ApplicationsData Mining and Knowledge Discoverye-Commerce and e-BusinessSoftware EngineeringArtificial IntelligenceInformation storage and retrieval systems.Application software.Data mining.Electronic commerce.Software engineering.Artificial intelligence.Information Storage and Retrieval.Computer and Information Systems Applications.Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.e-Commerce and e-Business.Software Engineering.Artificial Intelligence.025.04Weske Mathiasedthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtMontali Marcoedthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtWeber Ingoedthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtvom Brocke Janedthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910349411303321Business Process Management2914235UNINA