Extended Enterprise Service Helps Write Project Success Stories
In an increasingly cutthroat construction market, the words partnership and alliance often become meaningless corporate buzzwords. Now Raleigh, N.C.-based consulting firm FMI is showing contractors and owners that the best way to turn profits for both parties is to stop the bloodshed.
Many partnerships between owners and contractors are comprised of little more than a partnering meeting during the planning stages of a project, says Bill Meloche, FMI consultant. Rarely are common goals set and followed. Without a shared vision, the two sides quickly revert to trying to squeeze as much out of the other as possible, he says. To combat that adverse trend, FMI has created a 10-step program called the Extended Enterprise, which is a comprehensive program for forging partnerships that result in the unification of goals and efforts.