Executive Assistant
Burger Consulting currently seeks a full-time Executive Assistant who will work closely with the company’s President as well as the General Manager to provide administrative, project coordination, and marketing support. …
Burger Consulting currently seeks a full-time Executive Assistant who will work closely with the company’s President as well as the General Manager to provide administrative, project coordination, and marketing support. …
Burger Consulting Group is looking to expand their PMO team and is in need of a Project Manager who will be a key player with our client initiatives. The role…
Future of ERP
There are two aspects of ERP that make that solution among the stickiest in the industry (meaning least likely to be changed out); cost and disruption. Said another way, both relate to the difficulty in implementing the types of systems. In my 30 years within the industry, I have yet to hear a controller or CFO express delight in the prospect of another ERP deployment. Even so, a significant number of people evaluate the ERP marketplace each year with a view to better automating their accounting and operational functions. This seemingly benign process can bring its own cost, frustration, and risks. Certainly, making the wrong decision can be costly in terms of investment and personnel time to not meet the organization’s expectations. This topic could easily fill two or three newsletters. However, for those considering their options, the focus here is only on the most significant developments that are in the ERP space for contractors.
In no particular order, these developments include a lack of support for manufacturing/fabrication functions, sufficient project management functionality, an open architecture for integrating with other applications and publishing tools that provide a higher level of capability than typical report writing.
(more…)The first part of this series looked at the primary IT trends occurring in the heavy/highway marketplace. We discussed some of the developments in trucking, drones, productivity tracking, fuel, and safety among…
The pace of acquisitions in the Contech space has reached fever pitch. This is coming from both large publicly-traded companies acquitting mature solutions (think AutoDesk, Trimble, Oracle and Roper) to…
Burger Consulting Group has been recommending the addition of a Business Analyst to many client organizations for the last five years or so. The clients who have added this role…
Much of the IT buzz these days seems to revolve around GCs and some of the trades. While there is much going on in their world, there are also a number…
Contractors often invest available capital in heavy equipment, new personnel, office expansion, etc., while often viewing IT as an “expense” that needs to be managed. Meanwhile, customers are demanding more…
Over the past 20 years, the need for solution integration strategies in construction has shifted from convenient to ideal to critical. However, the construction industry has not kept pace with…
Stay Connected As your organization goes through these changes, your remote workers will need to stay connected with the company stance and any policy and guideline rollouts. Use a regular…