63. Efficiency, Value & Cloud Based Platforms

63. Efficiency, Value & Cloud Based Platforms

This post explores the core efficiency proposition that cloud-based platforms offer our professional and personal lives BuildUSA’s Beginning When I started work on BuildUSA in the mid-90s (1994-1996), my focus was on how to make the building transactions more...
64. Prototype Initiative

64. Prototype Initiative

This blog introduces the BuildUSA business strategy called the “Prototype Initiative (PI).” It describes the PI’s core components, and how the PI supports the key BuildUSA services and Optimized building. Driving Parameters of Innovation In order to foster innovation...
62. Old Tools Versus New Tools, Old Minds Versus New Minds

62. Old Tools Versus New Tools, Old Minds Versus New Minds

This post explores the beginning of the digital tool evolution (starting in the 1980’s) in the building industry. Innovation 1980’s Style When I started my professional life in 1980, we used the tools pictured below to develop architectural content and...
56. Time is Money

56. Time is Money

The Blog Post explores: How the timing and timeliness of decision-making impacts the overall quality and cost of a project.  . Time is Money How the timing and...
64. Prototype Initiative

52. Collaboratively Integrated Partner Organizations (CIPO)

This Blog Explores: Defining and explaining the power and competitive advantage of Collaboratively Integrated Partner Organizations.  Defining a CIPO Group The CIPO business model is geared toward small, mid-size, and large firms who have developed...
51. Agility & Adaptability

51. Agility & Adaptability

This Blog Explores: How finalizing the details of a building design or working cloud based eco system, is less important than ensuring that the framework and parameters that define these environments have sufficient Agility and Adaptability to grow overtime and...