ProjectSight Flipbooks

upon hours spent managing administrative processes in IT, accounting, project management and more. Connected construction supports the lean and agile principles of working smarter through process improvement, continual learning, and empowering your people. By leveraging today's leading technologies to create construction solution integrations that share data and workflows between them, a connected construction suite can tie together nearly every construction process—accounting, estimating, modeling and detailing, project management, collaborative document management, equipment and material management, human capital management, service management, and more. These connected tools unite the collaborators, departments, and disciplines of the construction process using a common environment where data and workflows come together to enable better project outcomes. Connected construction makes operations leaner. When all team members and workflows are seamlessly linked in a single system, project managers can more easily focus on the flow of work, foster a culture of mutual respect, and strive for continuous learning and improvement to reduce waste from the construction lifecycle. Connected construction builds on both lean and agile methodologies to transform the way projects operate, making their workflows far more flexible, customizable, and responsive. Within a connected construction suite, those workflows become more efficient, effective, repeatable, and predictable, resulting in more reliable project execution, lowered costs, and greater cross-departmental collaboration. Working this way helps organizations reduce resource waste, eliminate business silos, and work toward sustainability and environmental impact goals. It also enables real-time access to business insights for empowered, unified decision-making. Connected applications and data portals allow for automated, streamlined workflows, which are a key element of lean operations. And when you can easily pair these with advanced analytic tools, you can achieve new levels of understanding about your projects—the issues, challenges, trends, and opportunities you might not have seen before. Being able to categorize and assess complex data in minutes means you can make quick, accurate, and effective decisions as project realities change and new challenges arise, which is the core principle of agile project management. The COVID-19 pandemic forced many contractors to become agile and pivot their operations—even when many were not prepared for it. Working remotely, implementing new onsite safety measures, adjusting timelines and budgets based on work stoppages, dealing with material shortages and dramatic price increases, and more became daily challenges. Trying to stay on top of these with manual North Carolina structural steel contractor Dave Steel Company was struggling with a mix of disparate systems and processes. Its biggest need was to reconcile data between its fabrication shop processes and the job costs, purchase orders, and more within its ERP solution—a task it was performing manually. The company moved to the cloud with a connected software suite that shared real-time data and workflows between these solutions. Today, the company can better analyze its data, identify potential issues, boost productivity, and realize much faster accounts payable/accounts receivable cycles. Read the case study "Connecting the data dots" across construction projects Connected Construction Whitepaper | 4 Connected Construction Whitepaper

• Cover