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MANAGEMENT FOR DESIGN Winter 2015
Are your business systems maximising your potential?
Most organisations use multiple business management applications to run their business. If you are an architect or engineer you use applications to design and deliver your projects, plan and manage projects and people, monitor and report financial performance. As the business grows applications are added that get the job done but don’t necessarily talk to each other. While an integrated system may manage most of your activity, rarely will it handle the industry specific operations. What can and should be integrated, how do you make the integration decision, what systems do you use and at what point do you deliver a return on your investment? How can the functionality sufficiently meet the requirements of the organization? And how do you measure this?