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Business-Aligned IT Strategy

Understand the capabilities and focus areas required to meet your industry’s needs and enable value creation.

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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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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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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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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.

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Buildings Construction Safety Trend Report

  • In its 2020 report, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that Construction workplace fatalities in 2019 reached a 12-year high. Private-sector construction fatalities increasing by 5% to 1,061, the largest number of deaths since 2007.
  • The total annual cost of all construction injuries in the United States is more than $11.5 billion.
  • There are several technologies that can improve worker safety though better training, protective devices, autonomous equipment, and analytics to monitor and predict safety hazards.
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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 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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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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Industry Benchmarking


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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
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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 will quickly reach capability limits if evolving stakeholder needs aren’t managed.
  • Understand important common focus areas to address and insights into how your team compares with other Construction IT teams.
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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.
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Buildings 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


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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.
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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
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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 Buildings 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.

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Meet the Manufacturing Sector Executive Services Leadership Team

Date published

November 7, 2023

Authors:
  • Chris Goodhue

  • Steve Schmidt

Manufacturing is big business for Info-Tech, and so is our dedicated Manufacturing research and advisory services team’s ambition: Ensure that our members in manufacturing companies consistently receive exceptional value from their investment with Info-Tech! We do that by providing material, ongoing support for IT leaders in manufacturing on key IT initiatives, personal/professional development, peer networking, and career advancement.

Transparency Through SaaS: The New Competitive Advantage in Building Construction

Date published

May 12, 2017

Author:
  • Melody Peng

This note looks at the trends and opportunities of SaaS software in building construction, and the innovative approach of using SaaS and the specific license model to change the industry.

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