A lot of my time is focused on how teams collaborate during design and construction of new buildings and other assets, and it is easy to forget that collaboration should extend throughout the supply chain, including the manufacturers of many of the components that are used in our projects. On his PL...

Over the weekend, I enjoyed reading a BBC Business article by Tim Weber from last week's economic summit in Davos. In How companies tackle the interweb thingy , he points out that while every company worth its salt has a website, many "are still struggling to move beyond having a colourful website t...

An item on internetnews.com, More Adults Jump Into Social Networking , caught my eye this morning (also discussed on the e-consultancy blog). It says: "Slowly but surely, adults are catching social networking fever" quoting US research showing that "four times as many adults were using online social...

Reading PR Week magazine last week, I enjoyed a page of the "top five New Year's resolutions made by the UK's comms professionals". Briefly, these were: Survive the credit crunch Embrace the digital age Win an industry award Find a work/life balance Invest more in CSR All pretty laudible, but I thin...

Fellow Be2camp organiser Martin Brown (here) and I (here and here, for example) have both written several recent blog postings about the AEC sector's adoption of Web 2.0 tools. Martin's post was also picked up by the US-based Construction Software Review blog ( Construction needs to embrace technolo...

Have a hard time saying "NO?"  Check out this article from Real Simple for some suggestions!...

Sometimes one's reading and writing can throw up some fortunate coincidences. Take this morning, for example. Via TenLinksDaily, I followed a link to an AECcafe.com article by Susan Smith: The Road to AEC Project Execution Success . Later, my feed-reader pointed me to a blog posting (and associated ...

HTML clipboard I hurt myself today, to see if I still feel... Johnny Cash Two weeks ago, I taught a 5-day workshop entitled Making the Transition to Executive Leadership to a very senior group of managers.  It was one of the toughest things I've done in about the last two years.  The group...

Let's call this for what it is. Hypocrisy. A brazen display of utter, craven hypocrisy. Tony Abbott was a minister in the failed Howard Government: the Howard Government which ignored - until a losing election was looming in its rear vision - Aboriginal Australia and, not to mention, the needs and a...

The latest Autodesk UK press release claims an independent survey it commissioned reveals that IT - and construction collaboration technologies, in particular - will be the key to the success of the UK house-building industry (a sector currently plagued by a host of uncertainties, not least a d...