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Data Without a Decision Is a Distraction
Contractors shouldn’t be spending time trying to track information down. Instead, they should ask questions of their data and try to give context to it. Everything else is a distraction.
By Bassem Hamdy
November 9, 2020
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by Bassem Hamdy
Bassem Hamdy is vice president of Toronto-based CMiC.
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