2017 Azbee Awards of Excellence
Category
Print > Regular Column, Contributed > Upper Midwest
Awarded to
Mike Vorster, Contributing Editor; Rod Sutton, Editorial Director; Larry Nigh, Designer
Entry details
Equipment Executive
Issue date (if applicable):
Publication name: Construction Equipment
Publishing company: SGC Horizon
Website home page: ConstructionEquipment.com
Please describe the publication's mission and readership:
Construction Equipment's mission is to be the best-read publication by helping subscribers improve their performance in acquiring and managing heavy equipment and trucks. The role of the fleet equipment manager is evolving: No longer is the function simply to buy a machine and ensure its proper maintenance. Our subscribers must now manage financial measurements, including such metrics as residual value and cost per hour. We will provide information and ideas that will enable them to produce efficiently the required work and to manage accurately their costs in order to deliver to their organizations the optimum financial benefits. This will include, but not be limited to, information on product development, performance and technology, as well as equipment acquisition, disposal and maintenance.
Please describe the enterprising work that went into this entry and its significance or impact on readers:
The role of the equipment manager has evolved. No longer is the function simply to buy the machine and make sure it’s maintained. Our readers must now manage financial measurements, including such metrics as residual value and cost per hour. Mike Vorster has taught these concepts to graduate students at Virginia Tech and now runs a training institute for equipment managers, corporate financial officers, and others who want to understand how to manage for financial success. He writes exclusively for Construction Equipment, and his blend of folksy style and analytic illustrations have made the column rank near the top of readership studies for usefulness. His columns are also posted online in our Construction Equipment Executive Institute, along with video training modules covering introductory equipment-management topics.
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www.ConstructionEquipment.com/Institute
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Equipment Executive
Category
Print > Regular Column, Contributed > Upper Midwest
Description
Publication name:
Construction Equipment
Company:
SGC Horizon
Winner Status
- National Gold Award
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