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title: "Episode 3: Winning the competitive edge with early technology adoption with Matthew Ayres"
description: Peter talks to Matthew Ayres managing director of The Bennie Group about how creating data-led strategies can save huge amounts of time & money.
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# [Episode 3: Winning the competitive edge with early technology adoption with Matthew Ayres](https://www.causeway.com/podcast/episode-3-early-technology-adoption)

 Written by [Causeway](https://www.causeway.com/podcast/author/causeway) | September 08 2022

 

**Summary:**  
In episode #3 of Construction Talk, Matthew and Peter talk about how technology can generate and harvest lots of data. By aligning systems and centralising data, The Bennie Group has created data-led strategies that save huge amounts of time and money.

 

###### Time-stamped highlights:

**[00:46] **Matthew, a young leader at 30 years old

**[01.13] **How The Bennie Group started and who they are now

**[02.50] **Taking on the MD role during a pandemic

**[04.10] **Investing in the business and views on the diesel change

**[06.04]** Doing your bit for the environment

**[07.01] **Investing in people and bringing in youngsters

**[08.04] **Gravitating naturally towards technology

**[09.58] **Ripping things out to align and centralise systems

**[11.14] **Data doesn’t lie

**[13.57]** It can’t be data for data’s sake

**[16.32] **Business is all about testing and seeing if things work

**[18.32] **The advantage to using tech and business intelligence

**[20.19] **Questioning whether bespoke tech is needed

**[20.59] **Early adopters of Causeway Ermeo

**[22.28] **Matthew, a leader in diversity and inclusion

**[25.09] **The three Ps – People, Planet and Profit

**[27.55] **How Matthew has taken action for diversity and inclusion

**[28.53] **Keeping the family element while investing in skills and environment

**[31.59] **Working with the Department of Pensions to train youngsters

**[32.32] **Kids have been starved of connections because of the pandemic

**[33.14] **Roles are going to be more technical, so new talent is vital

###### Links mentioned in today's episode:

**The Bennie Group  
**[www.bennie.co.uk/](https://www.bennie.co.uk/)  
<https://www.constructionleadershipcouncil.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/B06322_CLC_SkillsPlan_v27.pdf>

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