Three Technologies Where Construction CIOs Need Strategies
Is it too early to start thinking about the 2012 IT Budget? The summer months are a good time to update the three- or five-year IT strategy. For many businesses and CIOs, the “quieter” summer months are the best and often the only chance to schedule longer-term planning and thinking.
We’ve seen some major shifts in technologies over the last few years. Some of these are general technology trends like cloud computing, which has driven down the time and cost of implementing new infrastructure and has given new options for scaling infrastructure “on demand.” There’s the emergence of lower cost tablet computing, which creates new options for equipping a more mobile work force. And then there’s Building Information Modeling technology, which has many potential uses as its adoption and maturity increase in our organizations and those of our partners. So with these and other macro trends, here are three areas where construction CIOs should consider developing a formal viewpoint with both short- and long-term strategies.