Category: People issues

Mar 27 2008

Aconex twist = non-event

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Legal, People issues, Vendors
27 March 2008

Further to my recent post about reopened legal proceedings involving Australian-based collaboration technology vendor Aconex and its two joint MDs, it seems that last week’s hearing was a bit of a non-event. After the hearing on 19 March, the Notice of Motion filed by Aconex shareholder Hawthorn Glen on 27 February 2008 was dismissed, but any decision on costs relating to …

Aconex, Australia, collaboration technology, Hawthorn Glen, shareholder

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Mar 27 2008

MBA teaching

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, People issues, Vendors
27 March 2008

My wife and I both went down with flu last week, spending most of the four-day UK Easter holiday weekend taking it in turns to be bed-ridden, and I only really returned to work properly a couple of days ago. No easy return, however, as I was already committed to delivering a couple of lectures …

architects, engineers, Greenwich, Loughborough, Manchester Business School, MBA, Nuno Gil, people, processes, QSs, Reading, Salford, students

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Feb 22 2008

Lurking in the shadows

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Internet, People issues, SaaS, Telecoms, Vendors
22 February 2008

Shadow IT is a term used to refer to those people performing IT functions within an organisation but who are not actually part of the official IT department. It can take many forms – from innocent reliance on advice from the unofficial Excel expert at the next desk, through use of work-arounds to bypass corporate systems, to the …

aaS, AEC, blogs, broadband, churn, collaboration, Construction, document management, email, feature bloat, intranet, IT department, SaaS, Shadow IT, Software-as-a-Service, wikis

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Feb 21 2008

Integrating IT, Process and People

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Future, People issues
21 February 2008

Over the years, I’ve attended several excellent events organised by the SCRI Forum. The next event, entitled Achieving Seamless Delivery: Minimising Waste & Maximising Value, takes place on Tuesday 11 March 2008 in Salford, UK, and brings together leading practitioners and senior academics to “showcase leading-edge solutions and enablers: I.T., Process and People for the …

IT, SCRI Forum

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Feb 18 2008

CADaaS continued (2)

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Internet, Marketing, People issues, ROI/benefits, SaaS
18 February 2008

My musings last week (here and here) on CAD-as-a-Service have stimulated some interest, including a SaaSblogs post, and a comment from Rami Hamodah, who, quite rightly, suggests that “offering CAD-as-a-Service is much harder to do than offering business software-as-a-service such as CRM” and wonders how demand might be stimulated. CADaaS: not if, when To respond to …

AEC, Alibre, AutoCAD, Autodesk Inventor, bandwidth, BIM, CAD-as-a-Service, CADaaS, collaboration, Construction, interoperability, Pareto principle, SaaS blogs, Sinclair Schuller, SolidWorks, TCO
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Feb 13 2008

SaaS – the killer app for CAD?

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Internet, People issues, SaaS, Telecoms, Vendors
13 February 2008

Evan Yares’ CAD blog alerted me to a great article by Brian Seitz among the COFES blogs. Brian asks: Is SaaS the Killer App for the CAD Industry?, suggesting that: “the business model most major CAD vendors operate under – market share and maintenance annuities – is showing its age. It will not be long before an innovative …

24/7, 4Projects, AEC, AutoCAD, Autodesk, BIM, BIW, Brian Seitz, CAD, CADaaS, COFES, customisation, data ownership, DWF, escrow, Evan Yares, Integrated Project Delivery, interoperability, Killer App, MicroStation, NCCTP, PDF, project extranets, ProjectDraw, SaaS, security, Software-as-a-Service, system reliability
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Jan 22 2008

IT project failures: SaaS to the rescue

By Paul Wilkinson in Blogs, Future, Internet, People issues, SaaS
22 January 2008

Hardly a month goes by, it seems, without news of yet another government IT project running late, going over-budget or not working as it was envisaged. High time then that public agencies switched from conventional software to Software-as-a-Service. Not just my opinion, but also one shared by a senior US official in the Bush administration …

collaboration, Construction, government IT project, IT Project Failure, Karen Evans, laptop, Michael Krigsman, Ministry of Defence, SaaS, Software-as-a-Service, White House

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Jan 17 2008

Gartner’s IT “discontinuities”

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Functionality, Internet, People issues
17 January 2008

I read with interest anything emanating from the Gartner information technology research and advisory group, and recently read the views of one of its vice-presidents, Tom Austin, about five factors – “discontinuities” – changing the way that IT organizations operate: Web 2.0-style applications software as a service (SaaS) global-class computing “consumerization” of IT, and open …

consumerization, Gartner, global-class computing, open-source, SaaS, Tom Austin, Web 2.0

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Jan 17 2008

SaaS and construction collaboration in 2008

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Future, Internet, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
17 January 2008

After Reviewing 2007, I started thinking about some predictions or trends for 2008. My first instinct was simply to repeat last year’s five, but that would be too easy. Instead, I have decided to update two, and add three new ones. Here are the first two (the others will follow over the next couple of days). …

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Jan 16 2008

Asite directors invest (2)

By Paul Wilkinson in Business/Financial, People issues, Vendors
16 January 2008

Just before Christmas, Asite COO Nathan Doughty and non-executive director Gordon Ashworth increased their stakes in the UK construction collaboration technology vendor. Today, another non-exec, Walter Goldsmith, purchased 150,000 ordinary shares at an average price of 3p per share, taking his total holding to 700,000 shares, representing approximately 0.68 per cent of the issued ordinary …