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Roadway & Critical Infrastructure Business-Aligned IT Strategy
- Learn about the ecosystem factors that are impacting the Roadway & Critical Infrastructure industry and how your IT team is set from a PESTLE and SWOT perspective, with expert insights and takeaways to update your IT strategy.
Strategy Alignment
Buildings Business-Aligned IT Strategy
- Learn about the ecosystem factors that are impacting the Buildings industry and how your IT team is set from a PESTLE and SWOT perspective, with expert insights and takeaways to update your IT strategy.
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Roadway & Critical Infrastructure IT Strategy Initiatives Workbook
- With input from our research and analysts and your peers, identify new or updated initiatives for your IT strategy.
- Working with our team, update your IT Strategy Initiatives Workbook.
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Roadway & Critical Infrastructure Industry Impacts on IT Strategy: Senior Management Presentation Template
- Once you’ve completed the IT Strategy Initiatives Workbook, it’s time to pull it all together and share with your organization’s leadership team.
- Use the Roadway & Critical Infrastructure Industry Impacts on IT Strategy: Senior Management Presentation Template to highlight the key findings from the business-aligned analysis you’ve done.
Strategy Alignment
Buildings IT Strategy Initiatives Workbook
- With input from our research and analysts and your peers, identify new or updated initiatives for your IT strategy and document them in the IT Strategy Initiatives Workbook.
Strategy Alignment
Buildings Industry Impacts on IT Strategy: Senior Management Presentation Template
- Use the Buildings Industry Impacts on IT Strategy: Senior Management Presentation Template to share the key findings of the business-aligned analysis with your organization's leadership team.
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Roadway & Critical Infrastructure Operational Technology Report
- The introduction of operational technology (OT) technologies requires the introduction of new skills within the organization.
- Effectively deploying and employing these technologies requires a convergence of IT and OT technologies.
- Learn about how operational technology affects both your organization and IT specifically, including challenges and opportunities, with expert assistance.
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Roadway & Critical Infrastructure e-Construction Report
- The FHWA defines e-construction as “a paperless construction administration delivery process.”
- The introduction of newer digital technologies will require investments in education and training.
- Learn about how e-construction affects both your organization and IT specifically, including challenges and opportunities, with expert assistance.
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Roadway & Critical Infrastructure Aging Infrastructure Report
- A US$4.5-trillion investment is needed to repair the nation’s crumbling infrastructure.
- Industry 4.0 operational technologies (OT) and the impending introduction of autonomous vehicles are fundamentally changing the way roads and highways are planned for, funded, and constructed.
- Learn about how the aging infrastructure trend affects both your organization and IT specifically, including challenges and opportunities, with expert assistance.
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Buildings Prefabrication & Modular Construction Report
- Skills shortages, cost sensitivities, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic will likely increase pressure on organizations to accelerate the introduction of prefabricated structures.
- The ability to employ prefabrication is enabled by technologies such as BIM, VR & AR, and robotics.
- Learn about how Prefabrication & Modular Construction affects both your organization and IT specifically, including challenges and opportunities, with expert assistance.
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Buildings Building Information Modeling Report
- Building Information Modeling (BIM) will facilitate greater collaboration between partners throughout the construction lifecycle, while increasing accuracy, enabling visualization, reducing costs and improving worker safety.
- The relatively high cost of BIM technology is a barrier in many organizations, especially small ones.
- Learn about how the BIM affects both your organization and IT specifically, including challenges and opportunities, with expert assistance.
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Buildings Virtual Reality & Augmented Reality Trend Report
- Skills shortages, cost sensitivities, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic will likely increase pressure on organizations to accelerate the introduction of these technologies.
- The introduction of new technologies like Virtual Reality (VR) & Augmented Reality (AR) require the introduction of new skills within the organization, involving investments in education and training.
- Learn about how VR & AR affects both your organization and IT specifically, including challenges and opportunities, with expert assistance.
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Roadway & Critical Infrastructure IT Staffing Benchmarking Report
- Many IT departments are already running lean, struggling to keep pace with never-ending demands from the business.
- Construction IT feels it’s sufficiently staffed in most areas, but some stand out as areas of concern, including critical areas like project management, security, and core infrastructure.
- By taking the IT Staffing Diagnostic and participating in our unique IT Spend Benchmarking, you will gain critical information to understand how to position your IT team to be more effective.
Peer Benchmarking
Roadway & Critical Infrastructure IT Stakeholder Satisfaction Benchmarking Report
- IT leadership needs to understand where their stakeholders are unsatisfied with the quality of service they’re receiving from IT.
- While Construction IT is meeting the needs of the business, the relatively recent and rapid adoption of IT services and solutions in this sector means that current IT teams could reach capability limits just as quickly if evolving stakeholder needs aren’t understood.
- Understand important common focus areas to address, and gain insights into how your team aligns to other Construction IT teams.
Peer Benchmarking
Buildings IT Staffing Benchmarking Report
- Many IT departments are already running lean, struggling to keep pace with never-ending demands from the business. Construction IT staffing is stretched thin.
- While Construction IT is keeping the lights on, there is little opportunity to lead, innovate, or plan for the long term.
- By taking the IT Staffing Diagnostic and participating in our unique IT Spending Benchmarking, you will gain critical information to understand how you can position your IT team to be more strategic and influential to the business.
Peer Benchmarking
Buildings IT Stakeholder Satisfaction Benchmarking Report
- IT leadership needs to understand where their stakeholders are unsatisfied with the quality of service they’re receiving from IT.
- While Construction IT is meeting the needs of the business, the relatively recent and rapid adoption of IT services and solutions in this sector means that current IT teams could reach capability limits just as quickly if evolving stakeholder needs aren’t understood.
- Understand important common focus areas to address, and gain insights into how your team aligns to other Construction IT teams.
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Core Industry Technologies & Software Selection
Core Industry Technologies
Roadway & Critical Infrastructure Field Reporting Report
- The ability to determine up-to-date status of events and progress on the project site is critical to project success.
- Mobile-enabled field reporting capabilities are critical.
- Learn about what field reporting technology is, the state of the market, key features and functions, and leading vendors in the space in order to understand how it can transform your IT strategy and ability to deliver.
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Roadway & Critical Infrastructure Construction Management Report
- Effective collaboration and communication between the various partners, contractors, and subcontractors on a project are essential to project success.
- Strong project management skills are a must-have prerequisite to successful implementation of a construction management system.
- Learn about what construction management technology is, the state of the market, key features and functions, and leading vendors in the space in order to understand how it can transform your IT strategy and ability to deliver.
Core Industry Technologies
Roadway & Critical Infrastructure Estimation Technology Report
- Accurate estimates are essential in the prevention of cost overruns. Effective cost estimation software is an important tool in the estimator’s toolkit.
- Learn about what estimation is, the state of the market, key features and functions, and leading vendors in the space in order to understand how it can transform your IT strategy and ability to deliver.
Core Industry Technologies
Buildings Construction Management Systems Technology Report
- As technologies such as BIM, VR, and AR are introduced it becomes ever more important to integrate all the various phases, activities and data elements involved.
- Successful implementation of a construction management system (CMS) represents a planning, management, and organizational change management challenge that must not be underestimated.
- Learn about what a CMS is, the state of the market, key features and functions, and leading vendors in the space in order to understand how it can transform your IT strategy and ability to deliver.
Core Industry Technologies
Buildings Virtual Reality & Augmented Reality Technology Report
- The introduction of virtual and augmented reality technology is forcing organizations to review and redesign many processes.
- The relatively high cost of VR and AR technology is a barrier in many organizations, especially those smaller in nature.
- Learn about what VR and AR is, the state of the market, key features and functions, and leading vendors in the space in order to understand how it can transform your IT strategy and ability to deliver.
Core Industry Technologies
Buildings Building Information Modeling Technology Report
- BIM will facilitate greater collaboration between partners throughout the construction lifecycle while increasing accuracy, enabling visualization, reducing costs, and improving worker safety.
- The introduction of new technologies like BIM require the introduction of new skills within the organization, involving investments in education and training.
- Learn about what BIM is, the state of the market, key features and functions, and leading vendors in the space in order to understand how it can transform your IT strategy and ability to deliver.
Latest Construction Notes
Short, tailored research notes aimed at providing you with timely insights, relevant to your industry. Hot off the press, these notes will be published regularly and pair great with your morning coffee.
President Biden's Healthcare Reforms: First Step Reduce Premium Costs and Expand Access
Date published
February 12, 2021
Author:
Expanding access to health insurance coverage and reducing premium burdens among low- and middle-income earners will create more healthcare consumers. Health insurers must prepare by improving data and analytical capacity to improve information sharing across the health system.
The Data-Driven Agriculture Revolution: Feeding the Future
Date published
January 28, 2021
Author:
To address the growing demand for food, farmers must rely on emerging data-driven technologies. However, farmers fear the potential consequences of their data being exploited due to an absence of legal and regulatory frameworks. Updating data governance frameworks will help improve the transparency surrounding data privacy and will ultimately help establish trust between farmers and third-party smart farming technology providers.
The vCIO Retainer Toolkit
Date published
August 20, 2020
Author:
With this guide, vCIOs will understand how to package Info-Tech’s available research material in a way that will enable them to systematically improve their client’s technology challenges, thereby demonstrating their value at every available touchpoint.
Professional Services – The Essential Ten-Step Guide: Building and Communicating Your CIO Strategy for COVID-19
Date published
April 27, 2020
Author:
CIOs in Professional Services will play a critical role during the COVID-19 crisis. This is an opportunity to shine. Use this plan to help you build and communicate a clear strategy for the next 90 days, allowing you to demonstrate both leadership and technology capability.
Professional Services: Next Steps From the CIO COVID-19 Strategy Webinar
Date published
April 26, 2020
Author:
On April 23, 2020, Info-Tech led a CIO COVID-19 Strategy Webinar for Professional Services IT professionals and leaders. This webinar presented a process for documenting an IT course of action during this pandemic. Professional services companies will look to IT for a clear technology strategy to support recovery efforts and readiness for the new challenges of the post-pandemic period.
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