Within a project, generation of specifications and drawings must be accomplished with a remote team in a manner that ensures quality and minimises liabilities through effective change control and audit trails. Secure Intranet and Internet access to project information can significantly speed project timelines. Timely knowledge transfer to clients can often be the single most critical factor in project success and in landing future business.
Organisations in the construction industry have a critical need for integrated information management systems. Acquiring and maintaining business depends on the ability to fully understand a client's requirements and then present quality proposals that can be stored for reuse. Because a building's operational data has a lifecycle similar to that of the building itself, the effective management of reusable data is crucial to the success of evolving building initiatives.
The Business Challenge
Construction organisations are challenged by the requirement for geographically dispersed employees to share knowledge for the development of proposals, establishing standards or reviewing drawings online. Many complex documents are drafted and revised both internally and externally, resulting in a need for a solution that provides users access to all pertinent documents while eliminating the enormous amounts of paper generated by large construction projects. To win projects, organisations must strive to accelerate innovation at the individual, group and partner level by streamlining the proposal process, providing timely knowledge transfer to clients and improving internal communication between divisions and business centers of expertise.
Managing large volumes of changing content has long been a challenge for the engineering and construction industry. Subcontracting and spec work require a high degree of collaboration extending well beyond the walls of the home office. The process begins with managing the bid process to successfully win projects.
The Karomi Solution
Today's immensely complex construction projects involve hundreds of people in partnered companies, and collaboration must take place in a secure environment. By deploying Karomi, engineering, procurement and construction companies can post their requirements on an extranet and then have multiple suppliers bid on proposals in a secure environment. Karomi eliminates the need to ship endless hard copy documents to construction locations because data can be downloaded directly by logging into a protected server. Capturing tacit knowledge for reuse in future proposals provides long term benefits in the form of competitive advantage, as well as time and cost savings. Construction companies can rely on Karomi to:
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Accelerate project team activities.
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Consolidate large amount of paper-based information.
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Reuse best practices and past proposals.
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Access and share up-to-date information.
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Track progress reports, change requests and expenditures.
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