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Monthly Webcast Series Past Webcast Recordings - Topic: Managing Construction Litigation and Discovery Online
Presenter: Richard G. Erickson, Construction Litigation Partner
Host: Computer Guidance Corporation
Presentation Description: Managing Construction Litigation and Discovery Online and the benefits of using File Transfer Protocol (FTP) and other hosting features to exchange project records and post them for discovery purposes.
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- Topic: Recession Proofing Your Backlog: Winning Work, Keeping Customers
Presenter: Cynthia Paul, Managing Director, FMI
Host: Computer Guidance Corporation
Presentation Description: Winning today means beating out the competition, capturing the right work and keeping your best customers. Businesses are scrambling to balance all of these during the changing economic times. Learn what it takes to target, strategize and book backlog regardless of the market. Explore techniques to get your phone to ring—opportunities calling you—and how to protect your best customers from competitors. Focus the entire company on customers and winning work.
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- Topic: Beyond the Bell Curve: A Report on Managing Capital Project Risk
Presenters: Mark Bridgers, Senior Consultant, Jeff Lukowski, Consultant, FMI
Host: Kevin Basso, Marketing Manager - Computer Guidance Corporation
Presentation Description: Every construction project and program brings a wide array of risks. Which risks do owners identify as most important, and how do they manage those risks? This presentation will demonstrate how Construction Management, Architecture/Engineering, and contractor firms can apply the same risk management concepts identified in the study to their business during a time of economic and financial crisis.
The focus of the FMI/CMAA Ninth Annual Survey of Owners is on understanding how program or project-level risks are assessed and managed prior to or during project execution (planning through turnover), and how they impact an owners’ overall capital program.
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- Topic: Feeling Crunched? De-constructing the credit crunch and its impact on the construction industry
Presentation Description: The credit crunch has caused many businesses to look for strategies that reduce expenses and raise cash. In this webcast, accounting professionals from Grant Thornton LLP will provide tips and guidance on ways construction companies can survive the credit crunch and tough economy. They will focus on current industry trends such as the behavior of lenders when it comes to construction loans, the importance of a developer’s financial strength, opportunities for cash-starved construction companies, and what lies ahead for the industry. Good business practices and specific action steps to consider as companies manage through this difficult time will also be addressed including:
Presenter 1: Tom Novosel, National Managing Partner Construction, Real Estate, and Hospitality
Presenter 2: Todd Taggart, National Construction Practice Leader
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- Topic: Critical Attributes for Leaders in the 21st Century
Presentation Description: Tom and Vanessa will be discussing critical attributes for leading in today's world of uncertainty, ambiguity, globalization, information overload and rapidly changing social, political and economic environments. While decision-making and strategy are important in these times, research conducted with over 2500 construction-industry leaders reveals that the most important skills are those which lead to trust, growth, resilience and the respect of followers. Discussion will center around each of these critical leadership attributes, including opportunities for self-assessment and tools for enhancing your personal leadership effectiveness.
Presenter: Tom Alafat and Vanessa Winzenburg, FMI
Host: Jeff Service, Business Development Manager - Computer Guidance Corporation
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- Topic: Retaining Top Performers
Presenter: Sean Taylor and Ashley Robertson, FMI
Host: Kevin Basso, Marketing Manager - Computer Guidance Corporation
Presentation Description: Sean and Ashley will be discussing best practices in retaining and motivating top performers. Specific topics that will be covered include 1) differentiating between team players, technical experts and top performers, 2) creating developmental opportunities and establishing mentoring relationships from day one, 3) identifying organizational challenges and opportunities needed to respond to “top performer needs”, and 4) developing a rewards system that drives performance throughout the organization.
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- Topic: Mergers & Acquisition Trends
Presenter: Landon Funsten, Principal - FMI
Host: Kevin Basso, Marketing Manager - Computer Guidance Corporation
Presentation Description: Landon will be discussing current mergers and acquisition trends in the construction industry. Specific topics that will be covered include 1) a review of historical acquisition activity, 2) the unique nature of construction industry transactions, 3) acquisitions as a strategy, 4) international interest in the US construction industry, 5) the role of non-traditional buyers such as private equity and 6) recent valuation trends.
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- Topic: Surviving the Canadian Economic Boom and Labor Shortage: What's a contractor to do?
Presenters: Bill Meloche, "Innovation Capitalist" - Management Consulting, FMI
Mark Bridgers, Utility Vertical Market Leader - Management Consulting, FMI
Host: Kevin Basso, Marketing Manager - Computer Guidance Corporation
Presentation Description: Bill & Mark will discuss the challenges of an economic boom and labor shortage in Canada. Specific attention will be paid to the issues of attracting, retaining, and training field, project management, and project controls staff throughout Canada. A focus on the impact the Alberta oil sands boom in the province of Alberta is having on the rest of Canada. Solutions and recommendations, along with a case study demonstrating practical actions that can be taken, will round out the discussion. We encourage several members of your organization to participate in the webcast so they are able to react to the discussion based upon their experience.
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- Topic: Trends for Specialty Contractors - Randy Stutzman, FMI
Presenter: Randy Stutzman, Director, FMI Group
Host: Kevin Basso, Marketing Manager - Computer Guidance Corporation
Presentation Description: Randy will be discussing current “Trends Driving Specialty Contractors” The key themes driving these trends involve: 1) Shortage of talent at all levels; 2) Technology; 3) The Heightened Emphasis on the Environment; and 4) The Greater Emphasis on Increased Productivity. Randy will drill down into each of these themes and help business owners prepare themselves, and their businesses, for the inevitable changes so they are better prepared to compete and win in the coming decade.
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- Topic: Trends in the Heavy/Highway Construction Industry – The State of the Infrastructure
Presenter: Brian Moore, Senior Consultant, FMI
Host: Kevin Basso, Marketing Manager - Computer Guidance Corporation
Presentation Description: Brian discusses the current “Trends in the Highway/Heavy Construction Industry.” The key themes driving these trends involve: 1) funding; 2) demographic demand; 3) competition for resources; and 4) technology. Brian drills down into each of these themes and help business owners prepare themselves, and their businesses, for the inevitable changes so they are better prepared to compete and win in the coming decade.
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- Topic: Ten Megatrends for the Engineering and Construction Industry
Presenter: Lee Smither, Managing Director - Management Consulting, FMI
Host: Kevin Basso, Marketing Manager - Computer Guidance Corporation
Presentation Description: Lee will be discussing "Ten Megatrends for the Engineering and Construction Industry." The trends range from "talent" and "technology" to "globalization" and "the environment." In addition to sharing the 10 trends, Lee will share 100 actions engineering and construction firms can take to leverage these trends, rather than being consumed by them. These 100 actions will leave listeners with plenty to think about, discuss, plan and act upon in both the short- and long-term. We encourage several members of your organization to participate in the webcast so they are able to make a more significant positive impact on their firm as a team, rather than as an individual.
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- Topic: Combating Construction Fraud: Contractor’s Tool Kit for Avoiding the Unplanned and Excessive Costs of Fraud
Presentation Description: Construction companies face a higher risk of corporate fraud than companies operating in other industries. The very nature of construction and other third-party contracting relationships creates opportunities for things to go wrong and remain undetected. Join us for a webcast that will provide you insight into how to identify, anticipate, deter and resolve fraudulent activity within your organization.
Our program will address the following: - Categories and relevant examples of fraud
- Legal elements driving ethics and compliance requirements
- Best practices to minimize your risk for fraudulent activity
- Cost effective internal controls
Presenter 1: Jim Schmid, National Director of Construction Forensics - Grant Thornton LLP
Presenter 2: Carol Esselink, Economic Advisory Services Manager - Grant Thornton LLP
Moderator: Todd Taggart, National Construction Practice Leader
Host: Kevin Basso, Marketing Director - Computer Guidance Corporation
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- Topic: Obama vs. McCain: How they differ on the issues affecting the construction industry
Presenter 1: Mel Schwarz, Tax Partner - Grant Thornton (click presenters for bio and contact info)
Presenter 2: Todd Taggart, National Construction Practice Leader - Grant Thornton
Host: Kevin Basso, Marketing Manager - Computer Guidance Corporation
Presentation Description: Whether the American public chooses Sen. Barack Obama or Sen. John McCain, the next U.S. president will have a unique opportunity to reshape American tax policy, which certainly will impact the construction industry. In this webcast, Grant Thornton LLP Tax Partner Mel Schwarz will provide an overview as well as the context surrounding the key differences between the candidates’ tax positions, including their:
Varying plans for estate tax, currently scheduled to disappear entirely in 2010, and then reappear in 2011 with a top rate of 55 percent and an exemption of just $1 million Differing plans for alternative minimum tax Approaches regarding expiring 2001 and 2003 tax bills that include rate cuts on dividends and capital gains Distinct stances on costly “extenders,” annually expiring tax provisions Congress typically extends every year
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