Increasing Your AEC Firm's Agility
July 22, 2021
In such a dynamic and fast-paced industry, agility is key to remaining competitive. Discover how agile, scalable and accessible technology, combined with next-level support, could be your shortcut to a proactive and comprehensive response to change.
Few other industries must constantly adapt to changes with project requirements, use of resources and fluctuating task durations. Often AEC projects include a vast network of contractors, sub-contractors, engineers, architects, and builders contributing throughout a project. However, it is these complexities alongside continuous change that increase the need for agility. As such, agility is vital for AEC firms to ensure they can keep on track with the pace of external and internal change to remain competitive.
An agile workforce requires agile technology
Companies historically have taken a reactive approach to change, with their technology supporting them. However, taking a more proactive approach to change requires rethinking technologies place in the workplace. AEC firms need to adopt agile software to maintain a focus on productivity and match the demands of their current working practice. Agile technology should be a strategic choice to build a competitive position in the market.
Scalable software
For a workforce to be agile, a software solution needs to be scalable to match changes internally. We know from our experience across the AEC industry that a one-size-fits-all software solution is not applicable for all companies due to differing company size, structures, and requirements from the software.
Rapport3 is a proven scalable solution, evidenced by our vast range of small to large clients.
“We are often working at 40 projects at a time, some of a very small scale and some on a large global scale. Rapport3 works efficiently with both, whether the project has a 3 week or 3 year timeline. Longer projects can change course, so Rapport3 reflects these changes, including budgets, fees and organisations in a flexible and transparent way.” - Jamie Wheway, Operations Manager, Integrated Transport Planning
We continue to ensure Rapport3 is suited to match the demands of a complex workforce, through providing a centralised system for projects, resourcing and much more that will improve efficiency, accuracy of information, and dynamic reporting.
Accessible software
Further to this, ensuring the software is accessible across the ecosystem is vital in ensuring a collaborative workplace. When considering the business case for agile methodologies, the benefits can be seen through increased collaboration and increased speed of information flow. As such, through increases in performance and productivity, the likelihood of reduced business costs is increased.
Our integrations ensure that everything is easily accessible, with key information in one secure place. Rapport3 seamlessly integrates with a number of third-party systems including Xero, Sage, Microsoft Power BI and many more. Our integrations help to save time and reduce the number of errors.
“The project financials feature they’ve added is particularly good – it integrates with our Sage accounting systems and we can get some very good cost reporting on our business.” - Darren Carroll, IT Manager, Jestico + Whiles
Support
With looming deadlines and key milestones for projects, having your questions answered effectively and efficiently is a key factor to technology framing an agile workforce. Our Customer Experience team at Cubic Interactive do not just tick the box, they continue to go the extra mile to give every client the support and inspiration they need to streamline their business processes at an optimum level using Rapport3.
“Just wanted to say, you guys are very responsive. Your support and speed of development has been amazing. So glad we chose Rapport3! Keep up the great work.” - Rosie Alexander, Associate at Bond Bryan.
Sound interesting? Reach out to our support team so you can see how Rapport3 can help make your company more agile.
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