By Wayne O'Neill
Many of our clients are in the building and construction field. If you haven’t noticed by now, we’re very interested in keeping up with the business and political issues of the people we work with, be it in their workplace or bigger issues that permeate the industry. So last week, Kevin Cray and I visited the 2014 Spring Owners Leadership Conference put on by COAA.
By Wayne O'Neill
Last week, I was in Dallas for the 2014 Public-Private Partnership Conference, or P3C. P3C’s goal is to gather people together who are decision makers. Trustees, city officials, state officials, people from the owner’s side who need funding, and they link them with people who have financial solutions or design solutions. Pulled together, these people create discussions about possibilities for partnerships.
By Kevin Cray
With the New Year upon us, most of you are planning out what’s to come: the improvements you’ll be making, the weight you’ll be losing, and the areas in which you’d like to grow your career or business. When seeking to increase knowledge in your field, attending conferences and trade shows are often where we begin. But, don’t just pick the conferences you’ll attend out of a hat…
By Wayne O'Neill
Collaboration, stakeholder engagement, and political backbone top the list as essentials to P3 success. That’s only the first wave of the coming tsunami that I observed at The National Council for Public-Private Partnerships workshop last week in Austin! Although this workshop focused on Texas solutions for water management, public-private partnerships opportunities are on the horizon across the United States and growing overseas.
By Wayne O'Neill
We first revealed “Business Opportunities Grow Through Public Private Partnerships” in March 2013! Now, the National Council for Public-Private Partnerships (PPP or P3) is sponsoring an interactive workshop called “Public-Private Partnerships: A Solution For Texas Water Management” and Wayne O’Neill & Associates will be participating. The “PPPs: A Solution for Texas Water Management” workshop will focus on …
By Wayne O'Neill
Our experience at the NACUBO 2013 Annual Meeting in Indianapolis was a refreshing change from years past. While the conference always draws the business officers from the country’s cream of the crop colleges and universities, this was the first time we felt there is a true trend of transformational thinking and ACTION taking place.
The overriding theme of the week was around capital investments into the higher education space. Leaders are finally realizing that the answer does NOT lie in either increased government bonds or increased student tuition. While institutions have realized in recent years the issue with leaving students with $100,000+ in debt, and not fully preparing them for the job market is a huge problem, during the 2013 conference we clearly heard leadership talking about specific creative solutions.
By aleneolson
Industry leaders at the recent Engineering News Record (ENR) FutureTech West 2013 Conference explained and demonstrated the latest and future uses of technology, including simulation and computational approaches to analysis and aesthetics. Specialty contractors showed examples of advanced modeling and production technologies that they were adopting. In addition, new apps are being used in ways that improve project outcomes. With so much information and so much technology today, the key question that Larry Beasley of Wayne O’Neill & Associates posed in an interview following the ENR FutureTech Conference was: “How do you find the right data and how do you use it more collaboratively?”
By aleneolson
The Association of University Research Parks (AURP) brought together top senior-level research park professionals and revealed transformational trends and partnerships. In a recent interview, Wayne O’Neill summarized the top 5 transformational trends…
By aleneolson
Data and research CIOs and IT leaders need to align IT strategy with institutional strategy, plan new initiatives, manage, and operate their organizations effectively in changing times….
By aleneolson
Major changes in the energy industry and how they impact business… highlights by Wayne O’Neill after participating in the Australian American Chamber of Commerce 5th Annual Energy Conference in Houston…
