Construction Management  and the Software Industry

You wouldn't hire an Interior Designer to build your corporate office.  Yet a surprising number of companies will hire a web design shop to build their corporate presence on the Internet.

In business, it's not about looking good, it's about being effective.  Sure Saks Fifth Avenue has to look good to maintain their position in the market, but eBay doesn't.  Wal-Mart recently is raising the question about how good-looking they have to be.  The thing is, they all have to be effective, no question about that.

So, how do you 'be effective'?  You design it in. 

You plan for it, and you build it, and you test it, and you measure it and you rebuild it.

The construction industry has a segment that does this quite well.  They call it Construction Management.  It's an approach of hiring a team of experts in the construction industry to tap their experience in designing, building, and managing successful projects.  People who know the snares, people who know when to spend money to save money, people who can build reliable and predictable schedules, people who can control the cost.

We pull our project management approach directly from theirs. 

- Kevin Welsh
03.28.2007