66. Notes: Building Big Data Warehouses

66. Notes: Building Big Data Warehouses

This Blog Post explores the potential of Big Data Warehouses, data analytics, and the future of building. Who Gets the Financial Reward for Upfront Data Structure Building professionals are hard at work trying to determine the best data structures and workflows to be...
65. Existing Authority vs Technology’s Transparency

65. Existing Authority vs Technology’s Transparency

This Blog Post explores the traditional competitive advantage building companies have exploited by being opaque and the current struggle/opportunity that technology brings with increased transparency. Opacity vs Transparency As technology gets more and more powerful,...

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...

59. Building and Artificial Intelligence (A.I.)

This post explores: Ideas and challenges of implementing A.I. within the building industry. Software Bias In the summer of 2021, I read an article about computer software bias that has had a significant impact on the ongoing development of BuildUSA’s Build...

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

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...