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Managing by Exception With Today’s Best Portfolio Dashboards

by InEight | Dec 15, 2020

With over a third of all construction projects experiencing at least one major change, achieving greater information visibility within capital projects — and the ability to pivot plans where needed — will have a direct impact on determining those...

Capturing the Day: Why Activity Summaries Matter

No two days are ever alike on a capital project. What’s captured, evaluated and learned from each day can impact its construction progress and performance and, ultimately, its success as a built asset. That’s what makes activity summaries, also known as construction daily reports, one of the most essential types of deliverables to produce during […]

Deep Waters: Data Integrity Navigation for Owner/Operators

As owners and operators in construction deal with the complex natures of their ventures, data integrity remains critical to ensure streamlined operations and good decision-making. Similar to charting the open ocean, success depends on preparedness and having the right tools and methods in place. To gain a better understanding of what it takes to create […]

5 Ways to Make Sure You're Getting the Reporting Data You Need

Everyone has a crucial role in bringing a construction project to reality. And each one faces expectations to stay on track to meet client requirements. To do that means having the information necessary to make critical decisions and determine appropriate courses of action to maintain progress. Much of those details are found in the daily […]

Best Practices for Multi-Stakeholder Project Reporting

Can you relate to this? Tuesdays and Thursdays had quickly become my least favorite days for the duration of a project. Per my project manager’s request, those were the days when our subcontractors would receive their outstanding document deliverable reports to their inboxes, for which I always had to follow-up on by phone. Luckily with […]

Reducing the Burden of Administrative Construction Tasks

Let’s face it, no matter where you sit in a construction organization, you will meet administrative tasks when performing your job functions. Maybe it’s the accounting team validating codes for actual hours to ensure they get routed to the appropriate cost items or schedulers capturing the actual starts and finishes for activities to the project […]

The Human Aspect of Visual Mapping

Visual mapping is a way of organizing and expressing data in a graphical format. While it’s used in a wide range of industries to bring order to and track business-critical information, in construction it’s the data dashboard that serves as a visual map to help better manage all the information associated with a project. […]

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