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THE KEEPING THE BIG

INNOVATION

CULTURE PICTURE IN MIND

AND TAKING ince R&D’s founding, we’ve focused improve, and integrate what we do.

on working safer, better, smarter,
Something as simple as using a new
Sand faster. This was cast in the wago, which increases quality, branch
ADVANTAGE light of using technology, systems, and termination speed, and is simply
less frustrating to deal with. A small
revised methods that leverages up the
people we do have. We want everyone efficiency pickup in an activity that we
OF OUR SIZE to work in the highest part of their skill execute millions of times per year yields
set for the longest time each day.
substantial results. We’re continually
We’re addressing craft labor looking for those small ideas that will
shortages via outreach at the middle yield blockbuster results.
By: Bill Mazzetti, Sr. VP Research & Development and high schools, veterans, and the OUR INNOVATION CULTURE
underemployed. The media has missed
one key issue. Electrical contracting, We actually have a powerful innovation
more than any other trade, will be culture when you think about it.
Maybe it’s our nature as builders.
e hope this finds you a technology supportive/driven Customers hire us to create and
trade inside of a decade. Soon, our
and your families safe electricians will be doing software build one-of-a-kind buildings
and healthy in this configuration, integrating our work correctly, every single time to a very
Wunprecedented time. Like with larger infrastructure networks, high standard and result. Building a
job is like building a prototype – even
and dealing with far more complex
many of you, I had a plan for this if we have built it before, it’s often
electrical work for the establishment
month, but COVID-19 just flipped and optimization of the completed with new people, places, weather,
over that teacart. system. In 10 years, electricians will be schedule, and the like. We’re trained
doing the same work as EE’s do today. to innovate.
What a difference three months The parallel between Covid-19 and This boils down to We Care.
makes. We’re now entrenched in a craft labor shortages is striking. Both We choose to be safer, have higher
situations pose craft labor shortage quality work, work smarter, and
global viral pandemic that’s forcing
challenges, just for very different more efficiently, utilize our scale for
us to reconsider everything we do reasons. Shortages are blind to good, etc. I have not met a person at
and how we do it. When we were whether that craftsperson is not in the Rosendin that does not care about
area or can’t work due to Covid-19’s our customers, our business, and
asked to prepare the company for
work limitations or risks. Folks simply each other. That emotion lends itself
2030, this one was not on our radar. aren’t there to work. Both also force to massive and widespread invention
However, there’s an intersection of us to embrace the challenge of doing at a grassroots level. R&D simply takes
COVID-19’s social distancing and the the same amount of work with fewer your motivation and offers it a vehicle
people. to listen, define a solution, plan, and act
chronic shortage of craft labor. and ultimately achieve.
Many think that R&D is a blockbuster
idea shop. Sometimes it is. More Because We Care, we are becoming an
often, we work with all aspects of our innovation leader. R&D’s two main goals
operations to better standardize, are to prepare Rosendin for reality

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