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Without portfolio-level visibility, you're flying blind. View this webinar to learn how leading construction firms can transform project management through strategic prioritization, resource optimization, risk management, and performance tracking - all in one place, across all projects.

The Hidden Cost of Managing Projects in Isolation

Most construction firms manage projects individually, treating each one as a separate island. This approach might work when you're handling 3-5 projects. But scale to 10, 15, or 20+ concurrent projects, and this siloed approach becomes catastrophically expensive.

Without Portfolio Mangement:

Your best superintendent is promised to three projects simultaneously
You're pursuing bids without knowing if you have capacity to deliver
You discover budget overruns only after they've cascaded across multiple projects
Critical equipment sits idle on one site while another project is delayed waiting for it
Executives have no clear view of overall performance or where to focus attention
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Meet Our Speakers

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Tad Haas
Director of Business Development, Innovative-e: Modernize Project Management

Tad Haas is a passionate technology evangelist and change agent with extensive experience in project and portfolio management. He currently serves as Director of Business Development at Innovative-e, a seven-time Microsoft Partner of the Year award winner that specializes in modernizing work and project management through the Microsoft 365 platform.

Previously, Tad spent over nine years at Microsoft, where he held roles as Senior Product Manager and Senior Product Marketing Manager for Microsoft Project and Project Online. During his tenure, he was instrumental in developing and marketing portfolio management solutions that helped organizations transform their PMOs and improve strategic execution.

Tad is known for his thought leadership on topics including transforming the PMO, integrating innovation with execution, and enabling business agility through modern project and work management practices. He is a frequent speaker and writer on portfolio management, strategic planning, and organizational transformation.

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Laura Nee
Creator & CEO, VPO
Laura M. Nee has dedicated her career to helping construction project owners achieve success through better project management. Having begun her career as a software developer and business analyst, Laura has always had an interest in business-process re-engineering—helping companies improve their bottom line through automation and standardization.

Laura bought The Simplex Group, Inc., in 1998, and has grown and transformed the company from an Oracle Primavera software and services reseller to VPO, a leading Microsoft-based solution provider for construction project management. Laura and her team used SharePoint to create VPO in 2008, as Virtual Project Office. They now customize and administer VPO in Microsoft 365 as a full-service solution for construction management collaboration.

With over 40 years of combined team experience in the architecture, engineering, and construction industry, Laura and VPO have served hundreds of construction owners and construction management firms, providing them with portfolio visibility, streamlined workflows, and strategic decision-support capabilities.

With VPO Portfolio Mangement:

Real-time visibility into resource allocation prevents conflicts before they start
Strategic capacity planning ensures you only bid on projects you can actually deliver
Asset tracking and optimization across all projects maximizes utilization
Early warning systems detect portfolio-level trends and systemic issues
Executive dashboards provide instant clarity on portfolio health and priorities

What You'll Discover

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Strategic Project Prioritization:

Stop treating every project as equally important. Learn to align your portfolio with business objectives, eliminate low-value work, and maximize ROI across all initiatives through data-driven prioritization frameworks

Resource Optimization

Resource conflicts kill projects. Portfolio management gives you visibility across all projects simultaneously, preventing overallocation before it happens and ensuring critical talent works where they create the most value

Risk Management at Scale

Individual project risks are just symptoms. Portfolio management reveals systemic issues, concentration risks, and dependencies that threaten multiple projects. Identify and address these before they cascade into disasters

Real-Time Performance Tracking

Waiting for monthly reports means waiting for failure. Portfolio dashboards surface problems immediately, show which projects need intervention, and give executives confidence that nothing is falling through the cracks

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