Our 1st Partner Roundtable of 2018 will engage Owners, Architects, Engineers, and Construction professionals in a candid dialogue regarding design and construction project risk. A broad, unbiased understanding of our shared and unique risks is foundational to further exploration of successful project delivery. This roundtable is designed to build that understanding. Please join us, as …
NEO: Quality Part 1
“Quality is everyone’s responsibility.” – W. Edwards Deming Quality is often discussed and expected. But what is Quality? Join us for the first of two sessions where our ultimate goal is to develop a set of ‘Cogence’ guidelines, both qualitative and quantitative in nature, that could be applied to each of our Partners. During this …
NEO: Team Building with Ellen Burts-Cooper, PhD
We are excited to continue our team building conversation from the Cogence Town Hall event in November 2017. Ellen Burts-Cooper will be joining us to dive deeper into the importance and keys of building transformational teams. We will continue to Navigate the 7 Critical Attributes for Cohesion, Productivity and Resilience and challenge ourselves to learn …
NEO: Cogence GMP Development Process
Establishing a GMP process in a collaborative manner has proven to be a relevant topic for all of us. When and how do we need to collaborate? During our last session, we began to develop an ideal flow for each of the three distinct phases of GMP development. The three distinct phases of GMP development …
NEO: Development of a Cogence GMP Development Process
At our last session on Project Management, Cogence uncovered that there were many challenges and communication breakdowns associated with the GMP development process. Cogence has decided to extend the discussion to get to the bottom of the issues as well as hopefully develop a more clear and effective process. What is the CM’s normal development …
2022 Town Hall
Powering the Transformation of Project Delivery Town Hall 2022 Co-Create September 27th – 28th, 2022 at the Greater Columbus Convention Center (Columbus, Ohio) Join your colleagues in the design and construction community as we delve into the Transformation of Project Delivery. Day 1 events will include Keynote Speaker, Lars Johansson (CoverMyMeds). With four program tracks …
NEO: Cogent Project Delivery
This session continued the theme of the March session, project management. We focused on the challenges that project managers face on a CM at Risk project. Prior to the session, we surveyed Cogence Partners to identify those challenges. During the session, we worked together to identify possible solutions to each group’s challenges. View the Program …
NEO: Project Management – The Linchpin to Collaboration
During our last session, we discussed how collaboration can reduce financial risk. Strong project management has a direct link to achieving desired performance and financial outcomes. The most successful projects have a Project Manager who is empowered by their organization to develop a project team culture, which enables all team members to work together and …
NEO: Can Teamwork Reduce Financial Risk?
At this program, we examined and developed ideas on how teamwork can reduce the risk of financial loss by discussing a scenario familiar to all: The budget is fixed, the scope is undefined, all of the team members are not engaged, but everything is moving full steam ahead…What would you do? Many have been in …
NEO: Risky Times
Risks are common among industry partners but the intensity and timing of impact on our business is different. During this highly successful session, partners worked in groups to correlate the seven common risk factors to the project timeline identifying the intensity of the risk experienced. The analysis from this session concluded that there is a …