1 How has Webcor used technology to support project management in the construction field? in 1984, Webcor integrated the Apple desktop into its work process. In 2011, Webcor made a significant commitment to virtual design and construction in its public sector building projects. Adopting Vico Software’s 5D Virtual Construction application allowed Webcor to estimate costs, scheduleprojects, and manage projects with increased efficiency. With this software, Webcor can take its customers through a series of what-if scenarios that allow them to make key designdecisions from the start. Using the software, Webcor can also predict the scheduling and cost impact of changes that occur throughout building design and construction 2. List the main lessons IT managers can learn from Webcor Builders about the successful adoption of new technologies. the decision to adopt new technologies involved fairly high risks, given the potential resistance of its end users. With the firm …show more content…
This strategy successfully persuaded older employees to adopt Box, a cloud-based storage platform for the company’s architectural drawings and financial documents. The organization’s adoption of the Box software grew out of a trial at one job site and just took off, caught fire, adoption-wise... And soon, what had started as a small group test grew intoalmost one hundred Box users within a few weeks. The reason for this growth was word-of-mouth testimonials that employees gave after using the software within the company. In addition to his cheerleader approach, Sarrubi also makes sure that working with the new technology is “as easy as using Amazon.” Cost, scalability, and return-on-investment are important factors the company considers when making IT decisions, but end-user preference is also a big factor in what technologies the company
This article deals with the topic of how organizations should go about implementing new technology systems. The article is built around Murphy's Law that, "Whatever can go wrong, will." When organizations implement new system a lot of know problems cannot be avoided and unforeseen problems arise with even grater frequency. Chew outlines seven points to help launch a new system with greater success since they are essential for long-term survival.
Once the new products are identified for your business (Milestone One), how has the use of technology helped or hindered this organization in determining which new products to
The design-bid-build method is performed in the three distinct phases of design, construction and commissioning, with little overlap between the first two in particular. This process begins when an owner retains an architect to develop a design which meets their performance and budget specifications. An important note is that there is typically no constructor involvement during the design process and that the cost estimates provided by the architect are often very rough. The inherent lack of constructor input during the design process is a key weakness of the design-bid-build delivery method. In fact, constructor involvement begins following the completion of the design documents in a process of competitive bidding. The complete construction documents are made available to a number of competing contractors and the one who returns the lowest cost for responsible completion is awarded the project. The main benefit of this delivery system is that it removes any appearance of impropriety in the awarding of contracts. It has also been traditionally believed that the design-bid-build method yields the lowest possible cost. Recent successes of alternative delivery methods however, have challenged this assumption. The design-bid-build approach provides a transparent and simple to understand delivery system best suited for inexperienced owners or agencies legally bound to its use.
When starting construction on a new building, there are plenty of things that can and will go wrong. You will start to lay out the plumbing and find that it clashes with a wall or beam that cannot be moved. To finish your project, you must take more time and more money to adjust to the new layout. Another scenario is the owners won’t let you start construction because they can’t see the end result or where the specific design implements that had asked for are located. For the past few decades the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry has been looking for a solution to this problem. Projects would be set back due to design oversights. Without anything to predict these problems before they happen, these little setbacks were a common occurrence. Once building information modeling (BIM) was born, it was like their prayers had been answered. The future was here.
Crucial to the successful outcome of any major highway construction and reconstruction projects is the ability to accurately plan, predict and control the construction process. Budget control, resource allocation and consequential impacts are some of the important factors that a scheduler needs to keep in mind while planning a highway construction project. Today, highway constructors need sophisticated project management tools to achieve their project goals on time. Project scheduling has tremendously helped constructors building construction for the past 20 to 30 years. However, traditional scheduling techniques used by buildings contractors cannot be applied to highway construction as the activities involved in highway construction are fundamentally different than those typically found on a building project.
The main driving forces of cloud data storage are reputable companies such as Amazon and Google building comprehensive computing infrastructures (Google, 2009). These infrastructures are removing the complexity of in-house data storage and ultimately reducing costs of limited networked data centres (Hitachi, 2010). The traditional inefficient model of purchasing servers every time you need to accommodate for high use or growth is now being replaced by internet based systems that replicate your data centres but without the big overheads (Google, 2009). This flexibility assists in the ever changing business world and its continuous improvement initiatives to remove waste, improve efficiency, and ultimately reduce costs. Another key driving force is the support for effective business continuity which will remove again the hardware costs and the strain on risk assessment and management. Removing this hassle can free up valuable time for the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and the Information Technology (IT) department to implement IT and Information Management (IM) efficiently and in due course reduce cost. Werner Vogles of Amazon of Web Services (Twitter) supports the idea of less hardware because if you have to buy more hardware to initiate this cloud movement it is not a cloud. This further supports the need to shed the old procedures of having in-house hardware and data storage and instil efficacy.
Innovation attributes consist of: compatibility, complexity, observability, relative advantage and trialability. Compatibility is “the degree to which an innovation is perceived as consistent with the existing values, past experiences, and needs of potential adopters” (Rogers, 2003, p. 15). A lack of compatibility in IT with individual needs may negatively affect the individual’s IT use (McKenzie, 2001; Sherry, 1997). Complexity is “the degree to which an innovation is perceived as relatively difficult to understand and use” (Rogers, 2003, p. 15). Excessive complexity of an innovation is a critical barrier to its adoption. Observability is “the degree to which the results of an innovation are visible to others”
The overlap between design and construction activities resulted into saving time over the life span of the project
The Internet is possibly one of the most innovative and useful inventions of our time. The Internet can be defined as a worldwide system of connected computer networks that are linked to countless amounts of devices through out the world. Todays Internet allows us to complete just about any task you can throw at it, anything from shopping, paying taxes, keeping in touch with friends, and even starting your vehicle. The rate at which the Internet today is progressing is truly remarkable; there are constantly so many different and new systems as well as functions being released. Although many say that communication technology will always continue to get faster and cheaper, the Internet costs have stayed fairly stable. The speed of the Internet continues to increase at a rate at which people would have never considered to be possible.
as organizations are able to identify information and know more about their customers, they can provide them with a positive experience that pays off at the end. Everything that customers do, and every interaction that they have with an organization must be identified, recorded and documented. In order to do this, companies must go beyond the sticky-notes and jumbled filing cabinets, and begin implement cutting-edge organizational technology that is only accurately quantify and sort data for easy future reference, but also make that data accessible across departments. Because of CRM this can become possible and allows company to store a huge list of customers and any related significant information about them. Access to their file can be even more convenient than it used to be because the cloud, hence no matter who it is that is serving the customer in question, they’ll have the same actionable data promptly available. This will result in less idle time for clients and
The web is the most powerful marketing tool in existence for which design has to serve a function. In the growing digital society, web designing is the tool that brings life to the desktop and mobile screens. The usage of web and internet has hit the sky in the last many years, and for the last year 2013 the distinction between the two has vanished.
Technology is advancing so fast that it is difficult for people to keep up with it. The construction industry is no exception to this problem. According to a recent survey conducted by accounting firm KPMG, designed by a team of KPMG engineering and construction professionals, Building a technology advantage- Global Construction Survey 2016, when it comes to technology innovations, 8 percent of construction industries fall into the “cutting-edge visionary category, while 69 percent are considered “behind the curve” as represented by the graph below. This reflects the fact that the construction industry is yet to fully embrace
The internet, a vast interconnected network of data streaming across the world, through a web system of wired connections that spans to the length that wide as the globe. The precursors of the internet date back to research by the government of the United States, done back as early as the 1960s. The actual internet origins occurred some time in the mid-1980s as generations of exponential growth for computers of personal, mobile, and institutional reach the networking internet. Since the 1980s, the internet was mainly used solely for academic purposes, but commercialization of the internet in the 1990s led to the popularization and incorporation into the public use of the internet in daily life. As of mid-2012, 1/3 of the population of the world currently uses the internet, nearly 100 times more than the amount of people that used it in 1995.
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Web Design is the process of creating, making, and developing websites. It includes many different features such as webpage layout, webpage content, and also graphic designs. In general web design and web development work together, but the term web design is an actual category of web development. The main way of creating websites is building it from scratch using HTML language; which stands for Hypertext markup language. Web designers build websites using HTML tags that define the content of each page. The layout of the webpage and the appearance of all the elements will be built by using CSS; which stands for Cascading Style sheets. Therefore, all of the websites are being of combination of HTML and CSS files to define of how the page going to appear to the client or user. Many web designers prefer to build a web page starting from scratch by typing HTML and CSS codes, and others they prefer using a software for building and designing these webpages. Some of these soft wares to build and design websites are Dream Weaver which is mostly being used on MAC operating system or WordPress and Joomla which makes it easier for the web designer to design the webpage using the templates that these software already have listed, when the designer choose which template to use the software will automatically build the HTML and CSS files to create that template which also saves time and energy of writing those codes. In the following we going to point out the basics of web designing by using HTML and CSS files and show the steps to create HTML template, heading tags, HTML lists, create paragraphs and break tags, create CSS file, CSS rules, Font sizes, color, style, and adding images, hyperlinks, and CSS layouts.