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Construction IT - The Next Level

Most likely you run your construction company with dozens or even hundreds of spreadsheets and forms designed for a specific purpose. This method works good for smaller organizations but as your company grows the seperate spreadsheets kept by each project manager quickly become unmanageable.

For instance if you have 25 projects in-progress it becomes very challenging to get a real good feeling of the status of changes throughout the company.

OK, so the spreadsheets are not working - but there does not seem to be a single solution that really addresses all of your companies needs. What do you do?

Take the approach that Pulte Homes did and just bite off one thing at a time. Database and web development have become increasingly affordable. Pick just one process like change orders and integrate it into a "one-company" system with all project managers feeding it and drawing information from it.

One little process automated at a time will help you define your company as a series of processes and lay the groundword for you to select that "one system" in the future.

Posted by David on November 4, 2006 02:57 PM|Permalink

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