Services
Project Management
Acila can support project management at any scale. Using weekly sprints, agile methodologies, and easy-to-use technology-based tools, we create project transparency and in turn, allow clients to quickly visualize, understand, and solve project roadblocks.
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At Acila, we believe that the industry must continue to innovate to survive in our rapidly changing world. New technologies, remote work, and post-COVID considerations all will impact how we manage projects going forward.
To help navigate this ambiguity, we help you develop tools and processes to give your team an edge. With the implementation of simple tools, emphasis on transparency and communication, and a flexible mindset, teams can be just as effective working remotely.
These tools and processes include:
Focused work sessions to guide teams to consensus and develop execution plans, using agile methodologies.
Training on how to move to a remote working world, including creating a culture of shorter, more frequent meetings along with transparency in information sharing.
Consistent, rigorous weekly sprint process to establish predictability, trust, and peer accountability.
Support on innovations including modular and manufactured building strategies.
Ensuring contract commitments are clear, transparent, available for reference, and are governing every step of the process with outside parties.
Implementing live team dashboards and technologies that give teams a view into project metrics so they can stay within budget, on schedule, and have a clear path to escalate risks.
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Owner’s Representative
In the face of a complex project or complicated contractual relationship, we leverage valuable technical knowledge to identify and mitigate inherent project risks. From negotiating contracts to managing budgets and schedules, our services will ensure that your project continues to move forward.
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Because many organizations do not retain construction management expertise in-house, hiring an Owner’s Representative can be a huge step towards mitigating risk factors. Our varied experience in the AEC industry means that we know how projects come together and can provide valuable insight while brokering contracts, managing project schedules, or organizing teams.
Services may include, but are not limited to:
Scope and sequencing planning and activity assignment.
Building and maintaining project schedules and budgets.
Contract negotiation and representation with architects, contractors, engineers, local jurisdictions, and consultants.
Documentation and reporting status and performance metrics to the owner.
Risk analysis and mitigation for traditional and modular/manufactured buildings.
Program Management
Successful program management is all about creating collaborative teams that have the authority and speed to respond to customer needs. We will help build teams, employ technology tools, and leverage your teams’ talents to deliver the best for your clients.
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Whether in a start-up environment or in an established firm looking to grow and innovate, program management is the deployment of tactical teams to solve for specific functional, portfolio, or client issues. Initiative-led program management requires guiding diverse teams through analysis and problem-solving techniques to implement infrastructure solutions.
We instill a culture of creativity and collaboration, ensuring that the team thrives in ambiguity.
Activities for Program Management services may include:
Identifying, auditing, and prioritizing key initiatives, and creating actionable items.
Pulling together large, disparate teams and guiding them towards programmatic goals.
Identifying areas where repeatable processes can drive client value—and executing on that vision.
Managing a targeted implementation and change management process.
Support for implementation of new technologies and construction innovation including CLT and modular construction systems projects.
Client Program Development
A successful client program will leave your clients feeling valuable, and be a key factor in hiring your firm again and again. It also consolidates your own work and allows transparency into prioritization and goal-setting based on your customer’s priorities. We help you create a customized portfolio-wide client process that is scalable and driven by revenue-generating decision making.
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Simply said, Client Program Management is the process of creating a client-oriented revenue generating system. This involves creating an infrastructure that helps both your firm and your clients clearly prioritize their goals.
Without a clear decision making infrastructure guiding the process, you may find yourself running into the same road blocks again and again with your teams and deliverables, making it difficult to leverage available revenue streams. In the AEC industry, this often occurs when offering an innovative and less conventional service such as pre-manufactured building components.
Through disciplined workshop(s) we lead teams to execute a global process that consolidates customer decision-making. These processes align with the client’s highest priorities ensuring that all decision points lead to revenue and are aligned with the client’s way of doing business. This results in increased volume of business in a way that doesn’t require a client’s development team to grow in parallel.
Services may include:
Client engagement roadmapping and evaluation of client decision points.
Identification of consolidation or risk mitigation opportunities.
Development of a clear charter and streamlined process to manage changes.
Support across the client’s organization and related contracted entities.
Support for engaging and educating clients on new technologies and innovations, including modular and manufactured buildings.
Let’s discuss how we can support your team or organization.
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