Category: People issues

Jan 23 2006

Interest in home working schemes rockets

By Paul Wilkinson in Future, Internet, People issues
23 January 2006

While some managers may be reluctant to let their staff work from home, the number of companies offering Home Computing Initiatives (HCI) schemes to employees has more than tripled in the past year (says a Silicon.com article). More than 1,250 organisations have implemented schemes, up from 380 at the same time last year, with increasing …

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Jan 20 2006

Harvard conference, March 2006 (again)

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, People issues, ROI/benefits, Vendors
20 January 2006

With some six weeks to go before the Harvard University OCPM conference on 8 March (see previous post), Burcin Becerik tells me that around 20 people have already registered for the event, and she expects the numbers to grow as March approaches. I will now be attending the event (booked flights and accommodation online today), …

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Jan 19 2006

Rok set on in-house capability

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, People issues, ROI/benefits, SaaS, Vendors
19 January 2006

The print version of UK trade magazine Contract Journal has a monthly feature called ‘Company’ life in which CJ offers insights into working life within well-known construction groups. This uses a standard set of questions and includes one on whether the company makes use of project collaboration tools. The company under the spotlight in the …

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Jan 19 2006

Wi-fi use not widespread

By Paul Wilkinson in Internet, People issues, Telecoms
19 January 2006

OK, so I’m in the minority…. A BBC news item, Wi-fi slow to enthuse consumers, says only a handful of people use a laptop to go online when they are away from home: "Just 11% used laptops in hotels, 7% on trains and 3% in coffee shops…. 15% thought there were not enough wireless locations …

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Jan 11 2006

NCCTP AEC collaboration market research

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, People issues, ROI/benefits, Vendors
11 January 2006

As previously mentioned, the UK construction extranet vendors’ association, the NCCTP, is commissioning an independent market research agency, Benchmark Research, to undertake a survey of end-users of its members’ technologies. After attending the kick-off meeting today, I know the research is likely to take place during late Spring 2006, with the results revealed at an …

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Jan 02 2006

Christmas working (2)

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
2 January 2006

Since my pre-Christmas musings about those who might work over the holiday period, I have had chance to analyse traffic regarding users of BIW Information Channel. Despite the widespread UK AEC industry shutdown, there were still individuals who logged in to work between Boxing Day and New Year’s Day. In total, BIW saw 553 logins …

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Dec 30 2005

“It’s too slow” – blame online radio

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Internet, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
30 December 2005

Occasionally, as vendors of web-based construction collaboration technologies, we face protests from users who say the extranet solutions are too slow (usually because they don’t offer the almost-instantaneous responsiveness of software loaded onto their hard drive or perhaps their local area network). As ASPs, we can do a lot to ensure that our applications are …

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Dec 20 2005

Needed: a new NCCTP standard: how to account for extranet ‘traffic’

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Future, Marketing, People issues, ROI/benefits, Vendors
20 December 2005

In addition to vendors’ reluctance to release accurate and realistic statistics relating to their user bases (see recent posts here and here), I also find it difficult to get a clear handle on how much user activity each construction collaboration technology vendor is managing. Let’s take a couple of topical examples. First, a recent Aconex …

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Dec 19 2005

Christmas working

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Internet, People issues
19 December 2005

Today’s Guardian newspaper has an article suggesting that more than two in five office workers plan to log on to their work emails over the festive period (men are slightly more likely to do so, as are people living in London compared to those living in Humberside). As a blogger writing about extranets, this leads …

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Dec 13 2005

Buzzsaw: second-most widely used ASP?

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Legal, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
13 December 2005

At AECnews.com, Randall Newton offers a Reporter’s Notebook: A Day at the Virtual Builders Roundtable, a US event organised by practitioners for practitioners. From his notes, two items stood out to me. First: "The general consensus regarding FTP (File Transfer Protocol) as a tool for collaboration seems to be, if you still have FTP hanging …