More companies see training and development as a high return investment, according to a survey done by the Engineering and Construction Contracting Association, a group that brings together owners, contractors and suppliers in the process and industrial sectors.
The survey was done for a session on organizational strategies at the group’s annual conference that drew 500 attendees to Colorado Springs Sept. 26-29. “The three big issues that bubbled up last year were collaboration, technology and organization,” says Stephen L. Cabano, 2007 ECC chair and president and COO of Pathfinder, an industrial consultant.