Every strategic business plan must begin with the vision of the company or its founders. A vision statement is often altruistic, sharing how an idea could benefit an industry or customer segment. It is a forward-looking statement and serves to motivate and inspire. Supporting the vision statement is a mission statement—defining the methods and metrics by which an organization provides its offerings and achieves success.

The McCarl Group works with your organization to establish a vision that is clear and simple to understand. We also make your mission statement meaningful to your staff, your customers and your vendors.

SWOT is a strategic planning tool used to evaluate the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats involved in a project or in a business venture. It involves specifying the objective of the business venture or project and identifying the internal and external factors that are favorable and unfavorable to achieving that objective.

The McCarl Group is amply experienced in leveraging such tools to reveal latent opportunities and to contain competitive advances for our clients.

Experience tells us that in construction, process equals profitability. Companies with established processes and comprehensive systems in place consistently outperform their competition.

The McCarl Group succeeds by keeping things simple, measuring key performance indicators and actively involving your staff in the pursuit of success. We review historical financial performance, sales and marketing programs and expense items—identifying opportunities to increase profitability.

The greatest factor influencing construction profitability is people and the structures in which they operate. Every company points to its "good" people as essential to their success, but few have adopted a systematic approach to labor management, leadership development, knowledge transfer and communication.

The McCarl Group understands the true value of intellectual resources in construction success and has developed programs that create winning outcomes that benefit the company, the team and the individual. We review roles, responsibilities and accountabilities to ensure an organization's overall success.

Growth needs to be prioritized and planned. By systematically evaluating performance, competition, and trends in the market, you can strategically allocate your limited resources to opportunities that deliver results today and success over time.

The McCarl Group knows the industry and understands your business. We can help you move from a "low-bid" growth approach to success strategies that deliver sustainable, profitable and repeatable results.

Effectively managing risk is a key performance indicator for successful companies. For these companies, risk management is more than safety, insurance and bonding; it also includes estimating, scheduling, project management, business systems, finances and more.

We have developed a proactive, comprehensive and systematic approach to risk management that is a proven competitive differentiator. We help you to mitigate risk with success strategies that minimize any impact on productivity or profitability.

The success of a project in a new city, the sale of your company, a merger or acquisition requires more than pre-planning and your "best" people.

Our expertise and experience in contract negotiation, joint ventures and mergers and acquisitions delivers insights, counsel and objective advocacy that is proven in practice and based on your success.

Every contracting firm struggles with finding the key to not "running out" of work to perform. The McCarl Group has that key and will show your company how to successfully build a core competency of getting business.

• Learn how to build work and still "get" work at the same time.
• We will show you how to assess your business to determine where you truly "make" money.
• This "sweet spot" will become the focus of your business development efforts.
• We show you how to focus your scarce resources on the best opportunities, both in terms of success and profitability.
• "Everybody" at your company is a salesman! Learn how to use this underappreciated and underutilized asset.
• Assess your competition to learn where your competitive advantage will get you projects.
• A written business development plan will be your playbook for success and profitability.

Too many firms fail to have a written plan for their team, which causes confusion and failure. The McCarl Group will help you develop the skills necessary to prepare this very important document. Additionally, we can assess your operations to determine means and methods to maximize your companies potential for profitability and success.

• The McCarl Group uses unique assessment methods to review your company and help you build it to the level of success and profitability of "best of class" companies.
• KISS, a key to building an attainable Operation Plan for your team.
• Use the experience and enthusiasm of your team to help build a successful plan.
• TMG serves as a "value added" partner to you and your team to help facilitate execution of your plan.
• Cost effective means and methods make this truly a value driven effort.

Too many owners wake up one day and realize that there is no escape for them from their company! They have missed an opportunity to put into place a plan to ensure their ability to exit the company and ensure the sustainability of the company. Worse yet, the company is their largest personal asset, which also happens to lack liquidity. THEY ARE STUCK in the worst of all circumstances, not wanting to work, but having no choice because there was no exit strategy!

• Mentoring, the key to a successful exit strategy.
• Career plans and how they tie into succession planning and profitability.
• Learn how "best of class" companies share ownership as a key to a successful exit strategy.
• Succession planning builds "bench strength" that builds sustainable profitability.
• Hidden talent, how to identify and build your team making the "door swing in" for talent at you company.
• You can retire if you want to. You only need a plan. Learn how The McCarl Group can help you develop a viable succession plan.

Too many companies have a board that consists of their relatives, bookkeeper, CPA and attorney. For sure this meets the letter of the law for a board, but the reality is that few of these boards of directors offer the owners what they really need. The McCarl Group will show you the power of an outside board of directors and how this group can lead your company to sustainability and profitability.

• Learn how to define expectations for the board with written job descriptions.
• Picking the right board members DOES make a difference! Here's how to do it!
• Accountability, an outside board will demand that you do your homework and listen to them. However, it is still your company so the decisions are still yours.
• At least you are no longer operating in a vacuum, now you have advice that is real and reliable.
• Leverage your board. Use their talent and contacts to ensure sustainable profitability.