From Chaos to Clarity: Connect your people to the information they need to deliver excellent projects.
Collaboration is more than a buzzword in the construction industry: no project is completed alone, and AECO firms recognize that successful project delivery is heavily impacted by stakeholders’ ability to work together. However, some may argue that collaboration is getting in the way of our ability to get things done.
So how does one improve communication and coordination without sacrificing money and project quality?
Rethinking collaboration, and reducing the many costs associated with suboptimal stakeholder communication, is about examining how people are working together to share, communicate, and make decisions throughout the project lifecycle. Although collaboration between stakeholders is critical to project success, understanding where collaboration bottlenecks are occurring can help teams focus on the root cause of the problem. This will enable teams to prioritize and focus their communications to make better use of time and resources; thereby reducing project costs and limiting the possibility of human error.
As we rethink our collaboration strategy, reconsidering the systems we are using for communication is an essential step in ensuring optimal communication streams in project workflows. We have evolved from hardcopy correspondence to email, but we are a bit stuck in the email rut. Thankfully, we’ve found ways to “speed up” response time with real-time communication within key project workflows using shared project data thanks to the cloud.
This guidebook examines the biggest challenges in optimizing project workflows by highlighting exactly where communication bottlenecks tend to occur within key points in the project lifecycle with the end game of greatly improving project delivery and increasing profitability using project information management (PIM).