There are several teams you need to develop to enhance CAD Governance. They include: Corporate Management Team Office CAD Liaisons/Representatives/Super Users CAD Standard Review Committee The Inner Circle Let’s take a short look at each one. Corporate Management Team These are the members of your firm who are impacted by CAD but are not part […]
Doesn’t anyone care about CAD anymore? Rally the ones that Care Making a change or moving people toward process improvement, CAD Standards or even a software upgrade takes a lot to cultural effort within your firm. Finding a group that can help in this process can help you get more done. Getting them on your […]
Before we move on to developing a CAD Standard lets think about who needs to be involved in the process. CAD needs governance. Governing a CAD environment cannot be overlooked. Approaching the oversight of CAD from a willy-nilly perspective of doing what just comes your way will not allow you to make greater strides toward […]
The User of the future will interact with other users in ways that are not seen now. Users will be more connected to other Users The overabundance of information that overwhelms the user now will continue to expand. The sheer volume of information now outstrips our ability to take it all in. Blogs, Wiki’s, Forums, […]
Continue reading about The CAD and BIM Users of the Future – Part 3
I am discussing Users of the Future and thinking that tomorrow will bring changes that may be seen from today’s vantage points. I do not claim to be a futurist, but some of these are coming in ways that are obvious if you look for them. Change will be a constant even more Users in […]
Continue reading about The CAD and BIM Users of the Future – Part 2
I have been thinking lately about the CAD and BIM users of the future. They will differ from today’s users. They may have some of the same characteristics, but there will be some definite differences. Some of the characteristics expand on what is happening now and some are evolutions that will occur. Users in the […]
Continue reading about The CAD and BIM Users of the Future – Part 1
There are some patterns that I have seen that frame the way an end user thinks and the concerns that they have that a CAD Manager must not forget when working with them. If you do not keep the End Users in mind, then you may overlook some of the obvious influences that affect your […]
I do not pretend to know everything about the way that anyone thinks. There are so many perspectives, ideas, concepts, information, influences and circumstances that impact the thought processes at any given time that there is no way that anyone can even guess what someone is thinking at any given point with consistency. So I […]
“User” is such a harsh sounding term, but that is the most common term for those that are the “hands on practitioners” with the software we support. Thinking like a User is something that may have slipped away from you as you move farther from the day to day workings of the tools and into […]
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