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Roadway & Critical Infrastructure
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Identify resource, process, and environmental trends impacting your industry. Implement strategies to mitigate specific risks and take advantage of all relevant opportunities.
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Strategy Alignment
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
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.
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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 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.
Top Trends
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.
Top Trends
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.
Top Trends
Roadway & Critical Infrastructure Smart Roads Report
- While ITS (intelligent transportation system) technology has been around for several years in the form of signal control systems, messaging signs, CCTV and speed cameras, license plate recognition, etc., smart roads take the use of technology to another level:
- Roads that charge electric vehicles
- Automatic weighing of vehicles
- Digital street and traffic signs
- Vehicle to vehicle (V2V) and vehicle to infrastructure (V2I) technology
- Violation detection
- Smart intersection and streetlight control systems
- Self-healing road materials, etc.
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Benchmarking Report: A Cross-Industry Comparison of IT Stakeholder Satisfaction
- Every industry has unique characteristics that can hamper progress or facilitate success in satisfying IT stakeholders. Reimagine your strategy by shifting the definition of who your peers really are.
- Discover which industries achieve high stakeholder satisfaction across 13 core IT services.
- Learn the characteristics that different industries have that can help or hinder IT success.
- Understand what your industry has in common with others that you can leverage to improve stakeholder satisfaction and overcome your own institutional barriers.
Peer Benchmarking
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. IT staffing is stretched thin.
- By taking the IT Staffing Assessment diagnostic and participating in our unique IT Spend benchmarking, you will gain critical information to position your team to be seen as strategic.
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
Roadway & Critical Infrastructure IT Management & Governance Benchmarking Report
- Understanding your IT team’s perception of what’s important and how well they’re doing is central to identifying strengths, weaknesses, and potential misalignments with business priorities and expectations.
- Learn about how IT departments in your industry assess the importance and effectiveness of 45 IT processes to gauge your own alignment and identify select processes for targeted improvement.
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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.
Core Industry Technologies
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.
Latest Roadway & Critical Infrastructure 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.
Establishing a Balanced Scorecard for IT Performance in the Road and Highway Construction Industry Is an Important Complement to IT Strategy
Date published
June 17, 2019
Author:
The IT balanced scorecard must go beyond the usual IT metrics. To be most effective, it must demonstrate the value IT provides and reflect corporate or agency strategies and goals.
Problematic IT Processes for Construction: Portfolio Management, Enterprise Architecture, and Organizational Change Management
Date published
May 14, 2019
Author:
Info-Tech’s IT Management & Governance Diagnostic provides industry-level insights on the challenges of IT departments. We use a concept known as Service Gap to compare the rated importance of a particular IT process with its effectiveness. Use this data to review the existing IT strategy and ensure that it includes initiatives that adequately address these shortcomings.
Select a Construction Management Software Solution
Date published
December 7, 2018
Author:
The economy is booming, and construction is going along for the ride. Increased business is forcing many building and construction companies to improve their supporting business systems. Take a proactive and structured approach to identifying and selecting providers of construction management software.
Right-Size Your BCP for the Construction Industry With a Customized Business Impact Analysis
Date published
August 22, 2018
Author:
Right-size your business continuity plan based (BCP) on your organization’s tolerance for downtime and data loss. This note provides industry-specific considerations to customize how you assess business impact to define appropriate RTOs and RPOs.
Bridge Tech Innovation and Industry Tradition With Organizational Change Management
Date published
August 22, 2018
Author:
The implementation of new technologies on large construction projects can be perilous. Frontline resistance to new ways of doing things and a focus on “getting the job done” – ahead of the technical components and business goals of new IT implementations – can make the chances of success very slim. As this note discusses, organizational change management best practices can help improve these chances if you are able to inject them early enough in the planning stages of new technology deployments.
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