Strategic Advisory & Project Development Skills
Enabling project owners and AEC firms to create more value before design begins, improve decision quality for capital investments, and achieve better project outcomes.
The AEC Project Value Chain™
This management framework creates more value before design begins. It provides a structured approach to understand how capital-intensive enterprises across public, private, and non-profit sectors respond to market dynamics, business challenges, and opportunities, and how value is generated, safeguarded, transferred, and diminished or destroyed throughout the lifecycle of capital projects.
The wrong project executed perfectly is still the wrong project.
After capital is committed, millions of dollars become sunk costs, and only a portion of the lost value can be recovered.
ADVISORY BENEFITS
- Invest in the right projects
- Strategy and structure first
- Improve decision quality
- Capital / non-capital options
- Financial viability
- Lower lifecycle costs
- Socio-economic impacts
- Stakeholder alignment
- Reduced Risk
- Affordable Solutions
- Best procurement strategy
- Obtain project approvals
- Better project outcomes
ADVISORY SKILLS
- Project development management
- Macro drivers of capital projects
- Challenges / opportunities
- Formulate strategies
- Strategic options analysis
- Ownership and operating models
- Funding / financing sources
- Financial analysis
- Risk assessment / responses
- Project delivery models
- Select best solution
- Business case development
GERRY W. DEVINE
- Consulting Engineer
- Management Consultant
- Founder of 3 advisory business units
- AEC Project Value Chain Framework
- Advisory for $10 BB in capital projects
- AEC innovator award recipient
- RAIC advisory educator, public speaker
- AEC industry thought leader
- AECProjectValueChain.com platform
The AEC Project Value Chain™ Framework
Gerry’s article introduces the AEC Project Value Chain Framework and its current and future importance for project owners and AEC firms alike.
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Return on Investment
#1: Value Is Created Long Before Design Begins
The greatest opportunity to improve project outcomes occurs before a project is approved, funded, designed, or constructed.
Strategic advisory and project development skills help project owners and AEC firms understand macro drivers for capital investments, identify the right problem to solve, evaluate strategic alternatives, and select the solution that creates the most value.
Outcomes:
- Better decisions.
- Better investments.
- Better outcomes.
#2: Maximize Return on Scarce Capital
Not every business challenge requires a capital project.
Strategic advisory and project development skills help owners identify and evaluate capital and non-capital alternatives, ensuring scarce capital is invested where it creates the greatest economic, social, and environmental value.
Outcomes:
- Invest less capital.
- Generate more value.
- Improve lifecycle performance.
- More outcomes per $ of capital invested.
#3: Improve Project Success and Reduce Risk
The wrong project executed perfectly is still the wrong project.
Strategic advisory and project development skills help owners identify and evaluate capital and non-capital alternatives, ensuring scarce capital is invested where it creates the greatest economic, social, and environmental value.
Outcomes:
- Reduce costly mistakes.
- Eliminate or substantially reduce surprises.
- Increase confidence in major decisions.
#4: Create Competitive Advantage in the AI Era
AI is commoditizing traditional AEC services.
Strategic advisory, project development, and executive decision support services operate at the front end of the AEC Project Value Chain where human judgement, stakeholder alignment, innovation, and strategic thinking create differentiated value that is difficult to automate.
Outcomes:
- Differentiate your firm.
- Insight to a pipeline of projects.
- Increase win rates.
- Increase backlog.
- Protect margins.
- Create higher-value client relationships.
- Attract, upskill, and retain the best AEC professionals.
About Gerry W. Devine
Gerry’s mission is to enable project owners to make better capital investment decisions and AEC firms to evolve beyond traditional design services to provide more value before design begins.
Gerry is committed to improving the holistic performance and impacts of proposed capital projects for project owners and improving the careers of AEC professionals that aspire to add new value to their project management and design skills.
Gerry is an AEC leader, advisor, educator, speaker, and author whose innovative work creating the AEC Project Value Chain™ Framework is recognized by AEC industry peers.
Gerry supports project owners and AEC firm leaders through thought leadership, writing, speaking, education, and consulting using new and innovative advisory skills to improve the decision qualities for proposed capital projects and the performance of AEC firms alike.