Is your construction workforce ready for mobile technologies? Presented by Barbara Nelson, VP of Marketing for Sage Construction and Real Estate.

1. Is your construction workforce
ready for mobile technologies?
Barbara Nelson
BUS-124
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4. Prepare your workforce for mobile
technology
Start with why
Why not
Why now
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5. ?Why
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9. Top priorities in 2014 to go mobile
Access to
customer
and
job info
Share
drawings,
schedule,
photos,
docs
Job cost
and project
reports
Daily field
reporting
Time
capture
and
approval
Source: 2014 Sage Construction and Real Estate Technology Trends Survey
50% 49% 40% 36% 30%
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10. What problems
are you trying to
solve?
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11. Discussion
Project files at the jobsite
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12. ?Why
not
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13. We tried that.
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14. It’s not secure.
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15. We don’t have time.
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16. It’s too expensive.
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17. I don’t know
anything about it.
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18. It’s too hard.
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20. Labor is one of the largest
components of a construction job.
And yet, it is one of the weakest
links in job management.
Leslie Shiner
The Shiner Group

21. Discussion
Collecting time
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22. Why
mobilize
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23. Cloud services make “going mobile”
more affordable
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24. 97% 87%
GCs SubsSource: 2012 McGraw-Hill Survey
Your peers are using mobile devices
on the jobsite
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25. “
It’s invaluable when
you’re on a piece of
equipment. To be
able to look down at
your iPad and be
able to see every
aspect of the job in
your hand without
having to go to the
office and dig
through stacks of
prints.
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We have cut
weeks off the
time it takes us
to close out a
project.
“
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27. Increase customer service

28. Increase collaboration

29. Decrease payroll administration

30. Photo by Benoit Rochon
Decrease profit erosion
A 3.0 percent increase in the cost of
labor can translate to a 1.2 percent
increase in the cost of a project.”
Jones Lang LaSalle “Construction
Outlook” Fall 2013

31. Create an actionable mobile strategy
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32. Document your business goals
Current
Situation Vision
Roadmap Success
Metrics
Business
Goals
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33. Identify requirements by role
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34. Focus on key areas
• Email
• Project files
• Reports
• Labor collection
• Team collaboration
How are you
doing it now?
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35. Mobile device considerations

37. Mobile
security
policy
Yes
31%
No
49%
Don't
know
20%
Source:
2014 Sage Construction and Real Estate Technology Trends Survey
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If you don’t
have one,
you NEED
one!

38. Mobile
security policy
Set ground
rules
Involve
employees
Provide a list of
approved
technologies Develop a
security plan
Publish a
policy
Enforce
security
policies
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39. Goals
People
Requirements
Solutions
Training
Change
Metrics
Success

40. Prepare for change
• People
• Goals
• Requirements
• Process
• Training

41. Discussion
Mobile strategy
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42. Practical tools
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43. Sage-Job-Ready.com
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44. Job Ready e-book: Mobilizing
Sage-Job-
Ready.com
or search
Sage Mobilizing
in iPad app store
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45. Job Ready e-book: Four Tech Trends
Sage-Job-
Ready.com
or search
Sage IT
in iPad app store
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46. Job Ready Guide
Take Control of
Labor Costs

47. Strategic IT planning templates
Sage-Job-Ready.com
Basic Annual IT Strategic Plan
Cloud-Based Mobile Technology
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48. Mobilize your company
1. Share photos, documents, and drawings
2. Investigate time collection solutions
3. Download Job Ready tools
4. Refine your mobile strategy
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49. CPE credit
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present for the entire session.
– Session Code: BUS-124
– CPE Credit = 1
– Delivery Method = Group Live
– Field of Study = Specialized Knowledge and Applications
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Session title: Is your construction workforce ready for mobile
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