Cedar Rock Consulting LLC Why Unresolved Problems Are the Most Expensive Line Item on Any Project If you have been following this blog series, you already know the story about the client who nearly filed a lawsuit over a decision nobody wrote down. That story was about a conversation. This one is ... Jul 14, 2026
Cedar Rock Consulting LLC Hidden Cost of Undocumented Decisions If you have been following this blog series, you will remember the story I shared about a former client who nearly went to litigation over a communication mistake. A firm brought me in to help them fi... Jul 9, 2026
Cedar Rock Consulting LLC The Hidden Cost of Lost Correspondence Several years ago, an firm brought me in to help them find better ways to collaborate with owners, GCs and trades on a project. Communication was flowing well during design and construction. Then the ... Jul 3, 2026
Cedar Rock Consulting LLC Why Most Customer Feedback Is Misleading "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." Often attributed to Mark Twain, although its true origin remains uncertain. The problem isn't the metric. It's the question you're t... Jul 1, 2026
Cedar Rock Consulting LLC The Hidden Cost of Slow RFIs: Every construction project has a quiet tax built into it, and most teams never see the bill until the project is already behind. That tax is the Request for Information process, and on paper it looks ... Jun 30, 2026
Cedar Rock Consulting LLC Hazardous Trail Ahead! But It's Worth It! Consulting can be a tricky business. When I worked in consulting for other companies, I had to balance doing great work with staying inside the project budget. That sometimes meant making tough decisi... Jun 29, 2026
Cedar Rock Consulting LLC Growth in the Hard Places Growth in the Hard Places: Building a Business That Actually Lasts Starting a business from the ground up is hard. Really hard. Like 16-20 hours a day hard! Most small business owners and sole proprie... May 20, 2026
Cedar Rock Consulting LLC To AI or not to AI Why Smart Teams Use AI and Modern Tools as Their First Stop for Support Problems in Autodesk and Beyond When something stops working, runs slow, refuses to sync, crashes, or throws an error, most peop... May 20, 2026
Cedar Rock Consulting LLC, Ron Smith Growth in the Hard Places: About a week ago, I shared this photo of a small cedar tree growing stubbornly out of solid rock. It’s more than just a striking image to me. It’s a reminder of why I started Cedar Rock Consulting in ... Oct 17, 2025
Cedar Rock Consulting LLC The C-suite has spoken. What if your entire team were Subject Matter Experts? The 2025 edition of the Autodesk State of Design Make report makes one theme crystal clear: companies everywhere are struggling with a growing ski... Sep 22, 2025
Cedar Rock Consulting LLC, Ron Smith Reflection on Autodesk University 2025 Although the travel scene getting to Downtown Nashville from BNA on Monday was a ring of nightmares only Freddy Kruger could conjure up (if you flew in on Monday, you know what I mean!), Autodesk Univ... Sep 22, 2025
Cedar Rock Consulting LLC, Ron Smith Failure is an option We don’t often like to talk about failure. It feels uncomfortable, even a little embarrassing. But in my experience, failure has been one of the most powerful teachers in my career, and it continues t... Aug 28, 2025
