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THE KEEPING THE BIG
INNOVATION
CULTURE PICTURE IN MIND
AND TAKING
ADVANTAGE
OF OUR SIZE
By: Bill Mazzetti, Sr. VP Research & Development and high schools, veterans, and the
e hope this finds you
and your families safe
and healthy in this
Wunprecedented time. Like
many of you, I had a plan for this
month, but COVID-19 just flipped
over that teacart.
What a difference three months
makes. We’re now entrenched in a
global viral pandemic that’s forcing
us to reconsider everything we do
and how we do it. When we were
asked to prepare the company for
2030, this one was not on our radar.
However, there’s an intersection of
COVID-19’s social distancing and the
chronic shortage of craft labor.
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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
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
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.
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.
a technology supportive/driven Customers hire us to create and
trade inside of a decade. Soon, our
electricians will be doing software build one-of-a-kind buildings
configuration, integrating our work correctly, every single time to a very
with larger infrastructure networks, high standard and result. Building a
job is like building a prototype – even
and dealing with far more complex
if we have built it before, it’s often
electrical work for the establishment
and optimization of the completed with new people, places, weather,
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.
The parallel between Covid-19 and This boils down to We Care.
craft labor shortages is striking. Both We choose to be safer, have higher
situations pose craft labor shortage quality work, work smarter, and
challenges, just for very different more efficiently, utilize our scale for
reasons. Shortages are blind to good, etc. I have not met a person at
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
work limitations or risks. Folks simply each other. That emotion lends itself
aren’t there to work. Both also force to massive and widespread invention
us to embrace the challenge of doing at a grassroots level. R&D simply takes
the same amount of work with fewer your motivation and offers it a vehicle
people. to listen, define a solution, plan, and act
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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