Globalizing Self-assessment Tool (G-SAT) User Guide
The steep rise of global construction market and declining domestic market is forcing U.S. construction companies to become global, simultaneously opening a vast field for study. RT-263 tries to comprehensively explain, synthesize, and prioritize the key drivers and critical success factors for engineering and construction firms to become truly global and increase the success of owners, and engineering and construction organizations in global context.
There is limited research focused on strategies for quantifying the globalizing performance of companies and moreover, no research on quantifying the globalizing performance specific to engineering and construction organizations. To fill this crucial gap, RT-263 developed a metric associated tool “Globalizing Self-Assessment Tool (G-SAT)” to strategically manage and analyze globalizing progress of a construction and engineering firm. Also a two-dimensional model is developed to represent globalizing index of engineering and construction companies.
The research approach included extensive literature review, interviews, and collection of case study statistical testing procedure.
This tool enables engineering and construction companies to examine their globalizing status and growth over time. It will also help them evaluate and plan globalizing tactics and strategies. The tool plots the organization’s results into one of the four quadrants of the "Globalizing Index."
