9/11. Hurricane Katrina. Flooding. Wildfires. The COVID-19 pandemic. What disruption is the next threat to the vitality and survivability of your business? Without a business continuity plan your business is rolling the dice in a game of chance with severe to catastrophic consequences. CFMs are responsible for ensuring the strategic risk management of their company’s assets.

In a radically transformed market, profitability doesn’t come easy. One of the major ways construction companies can drive a profit at any revenue level is to manage their labor cost and use technology and productivity measurement to drive efficiency and effectiveness. In this talk, we are going to discuss technology tools and processes that can be used and implemented to measure and manage the efficiency and effectiveness of labor to drive more profit to the bottom line of your specialty subcontracting companies.

COVID-19 has rocked what had appeared to be a nearly invincible economy; one associated with substantial job growth, multi-decade lows in unemployment, sturdy compensation increases, robust retail sales, low inflation, and strong financial market performance. Underneath that strong performance, however, was a set of fragilities that have been exposed by the pandemic. This session speaks to our current economic circumstances, how difficult things are likely to become over the foreseeable future, and the contours of the brisk recovery to come thereafter.