Design and construction professionals are seeing a rapid expansion in the hardware, software and services available for collecting and sharing information with distributed teams. The market has exploded with a wide range of effective tools and systems for gathering digital data, exchanging files, synchronizing changes in master project databases and collaborating virtually in real time—but not everyone is buying in.
Some firms are jumping at opportunities to invent new work practices built around collaboration technology, but others are still hanging back, citing business pressures that crush their appetite for change.