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How Construction Avoids the Innovator’s Dilemma and Improves Productivity

Thought leaders in the construction industry are complementing the time-proven model of top-down execution with a new brand of entrepreneurism that focuses on teams, empowerment and accessibility of information.
By Patrick Copeland
September 26, 2017
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by Patrick Copeland
Patrick Copeland is the Vice President of R&D at PlanGrid, the leader in construction productivity software, where he leads the company’s engineering, product, and design efforts. He spent nearly 21 years leading hardware, mobile, cloud systems and algorithm teams. In his most recent role at Google as Senior Engineering Director, Copeland built a cross-discipline team of 300 employees and led the strategy, product, engineering, and expansion of several wireless projects, including the recently announced Google WiFi. For the past decade, Copeland worked in multiple areas at Google, including access, research, infrastructure and advertising.

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