In our pursuit to succeed more and more of us are faking it and convincing themselves that it is okay to fake it till you make it. Too many are not true to one's own personality, spirit, or character or true to their experience in work-life. We have many lives and many roles we play in our life and to succeed we have adapted ourselves to various roles and have evolved and transformed ourselves through the experience we go through in our work-life.
The question that begs to be asked is do we have leaders in government that are authentic enough to guide us though this unprecedented policy challenges and do we have leaders in our business and workplace who are authentic to guide to the unprecedented changes that are coming to our work and workplaces?
An enhanced customer experience, the result of a designed customer journey will be the differentiator from other providing similar project service. Designing a customer experience in projects require us to transform the way we “engage our clients” and transforming the way we “engage our teams”.
Are our projects making our clients successful? Are we making them competitive; are we enabling them to get their products & services in time to market while they focus in their core business and strengths? These are some questions we need to ask ourselves and our team.
Firms that do not change to meet the expectation of the customers and clients of the digital age in a slow growth economy will find themselves disrupted. It will only be a matter of time. As Brian Solis states: “There will be an Uber for every industry”
It is obvious the AEC industry must disrupt- as mentioned in the a recent blog “Disrupting the AEC Industry” in this disruptive, digital global economy. The AEC industry will find its environment of operation will have to change quickly to survive. No one can predict the future of the industry but the industry can decide for itself to disrupt itself or be blindsighted by some other industry that will disrupt it. In order for the Business of Architecture to be in step with their clients they will have to transform the AEC Industry infrastructure & its ecosystem through a disruption of their practise
The traditional stick and build method to implement design and engineering solution used in our cities and towns are inheritably inefficient and consistently producing varying quality of work. The future lies: in design; engineering of building designed to evolve & built to last.
The key here is to design Build like Lego- build blocks from kit of parts which can be used in any required combination and can be conveniently assembled providing flexibility in manufacture; assembly; disassembly; relocation and reissue or recycle in its entirety.
It is obvious the AEC industry must disrupt as in this disruptive, digital global economy, the AEC industry will find its environment of operation will have to change quickly to survive. It will have to change the game internally to accelerating speed-of-execution and become agile to seize new opportunities while disrupting to gain critical competitive advantage. In short it will have to Out-Execute and Out-Innovate
The AEC industry will be disrupted very shortly as the business environment which the industry is based is being disrupted. Our age old assumptions in business are no more relevant and the metrics of success are being redefined and where the clarity of words we use to discuss business, standbys like marketplace and competitive advantage, are redefined and rendered almost meaningless, makes it imperative that the industry will be disrupted. In the globalized knowledge economy where the goal is not efficiency but is adaptability or innovation or unleashing human potential where a whole new management system and tools is being reinvented, it is only a matter of time.
