The construction at my company is finally drawing to a close, hopefully. We are having a big event on the 10th of next month, so everything is supposed to be wrapped up then. One of the things that has struck me in this process has been the lack of planning. This expansion had been talked about for over a decade, but the planning was compressed into a couple of months and not everyone was invited to participate. As you can imagine, this has led to issues.
Some examples:
1. Our janitorial storage space was cut in half. No one thought about what to do with all the items for which there was no longer any room until a couple weeks ago.
2. The room where we stored our drum label printer and associated supplies was removed. No one made a plan for where to put all this
3. My personal favorite: For nearly two months, there was ONE phone in our new 100,000+ sqaure foot building. Why? Our IT Manager, never known for his planning skills, didn't get that done. It's been 2.5 months now, and they still don't have all the phones installed in this area yet.
P is for planning (and also for phones).
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