Why Do We Design?
How well designed for growth are the systems that support your production, your learning, and your expertise-sharing?
Grow or Die?
In the corporate race, we either grow or we die. Business development is Job #1.
How do I help businesses win work?
How do I help grow your business and improve your margins? How do I help you Differentiate from your competition?
I ensure that you're good at your "Bigs" today - and help get you ready for tomorrow.
Fix Your Bigs - your most important asset is your people, right? But not the head count, the Head Content! How connected are your "specialty" experts across all of your locations? Are you making it very easy for them to collaborate and synergize, to share their leadership to your organization and to your potential clients. Fully leveraging your collective expertise is a surprinsgly easy lift. A well-planned Push, Pull, and Peer-to-Peer communications and learning strategy can be your biggest Mega-Multiplier.
Prepare for the Future - What technology will be a standard tomorrow? BIM --> Digital Delivery. Do you know that you can very easily streamline your workflows using built-in BIM extensions (Item Types in Bentley, Property Sets in AutoDesk)? Do you know that you can get positive ROI essentially instantaneously? Embrace this broadly now and you will lead in tomorrow's BIM-mandatory industry.
Deliver Better - It is impossible to consistently please clients throughout this BIM/Digital industry revolution without a thorough understanding of an increasing complex design and delivery platform. Project requirements are increasingly fat and their margins consistently lean. Software and Workflow Training is the variable with flexibility in this equation.
Leaner training, effectively shared, drives quality your current and future clients expect and supports healthy project margins.
What are your Bigs?
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Prepare for the Future
We're at an exciting time in the industry - the biggest revolution since dropping the pencils: Digital Delivery at the DOT level. Integratability as a requirement. Here's the secret: the technology that makes integration possible, Item Types (or Property Sets in the Autodesk ecosystem), can improve your quality and save you money right now. As in, the project you're currently working on now. Item Types and View Display Rules are the technologies that unleash - and tame! - the power of The Big Data Age we're in. Lead now or be left behind.
For BIM-ready Drainage and Utilities you have two platforms: OpenRoads Drainage and InfoDrainage. These are really heavy platforms = high risks in implementation. You WILL want an implementation plan to adopt these beasts. Get help; "winging it" is ruinous.
Stay Lean - But Level Up
Our modern design and delivery platforms are really fat. Training is fat. Projects are lean. How do we resolve this?
First of all, make use of Learning.Bentley.com. It's the standard. It's modular, AND you are likely already paying for it.
Second: find or build lean alternatives or gap-fillers (there are a lot of gaps).
Third: effectively share your customs or "leans" with your full user base.
I can help with all three of these.
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Don't Wait to Learn. You may have to wait for a live engagement, but don't wait to learn.
Schedule some live training or consulting for some future date, but don't wait to get going. There are plenty of resources to move you forward before your live engagment.
My Service "categories" are listed in the menus, but it really comes down to "what do YOU need?"
Perhaps the most important needs univesally are:
- Do you know how to support yourself right now? Are you using the resources you have available to you right now? Best Advice: Learn to Use your Support Resources
- If you will be making decisions, do you thoroughly understand the risks and benefits surrounding those decisions? This Job 1 for good consultants: make sure the decision makers are well-informed.
- Do you have a success plan for your users after the engagment? Hint: you should be heavily leveraging your available assets.
A good deal of consulting is simply being able to provide the best process to solve a specialized requirement. Experience matters; it fills that pool of ready solutions.
Effective consulting starts with understanding the needs of the users and the business. Experience in subject matter, variations in wide ranging workflows, and working with thousands of learners matters.
There are several levels of "consulting" and training:
- Broad, foundational education and training.
- Workflow excellence
- Getting unstuck
Different Audiences require Different Approaches
- Absolutely new
- "Novice to Known" - these are users who, for a variety of reasons, do not venture from the "tried and true" path. Show them a safe better path.
- Experienced in competing software - talk their language, be balanced
- Power Users - show them better practices
- Reluctants - their concerns are generally quite valid, it's important to address them and provide compelling solutions
New users need "enhanced nurturing". Successs and confidence is critical. Having confidence in the support system is key.
Power users may only need a short conversation for them to have a clear effective path forward. I, personally, generally need only "use this tool with these options to get that".
The Takeaway:
Sometimes you need full "survey-to-stakeout" solutions, sometimes you just need your experts to get some good advice. My goal is provide flexible fast turnaround support so that you are on your way to success as quickly as possible.
Experience matters.
Don't "go alone" in ORD. Have conversations. Talk to experts. Let their experience help you move forward quickly.
Save time, money, and stress. And in some cases, reputation.
Let's start getting you some help!
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"If you want to go fast, go alone."
"if you want to go far, go together."
"If you want to ORD, get together."
Do NOT go alone.
The ORD Support Gap = RISK (to budget, to schedule, to reputation)
The biggest impediment to success in OpenRoads is its complexity. A BIM/Digital Twin platform - with Design Intent (memory) - is dramatically more complex than a plans production program. The Vendor Support/Training system is arguably better, but not significantly. The gap is huge. How do you bridge it?
Extraordinary Complexity Requires Extraordinary Support.
Whether it's a conversation with your subject matter experts or full-on custom training, we can help. We've been there.
OpenRoads Designer is complex, we can shorten your learning curve and avoid costly mistakes.
At this point, everything we do here at Civil XLr8 is custom. Let's meet YOUR needs. Bentley has free* OnDemand formal training - take advantage of that. We can bridge the gap between general/generic publications and what you need for success.
- ORD Onboarding
- Implementation Planning and Execution - save time and money with Agile Implementation
- OpenRoads Workspace Development and Administration
- Training - live "giant monolith"; periodic short chunks ("modular"). What works for you? I love in-person; remote works well.
- Custom Training Development
- Consulting (General, Strategic, Troubleshooting...)
- Risk Awareness and Mitigation
- Projects Managed via Fast, Lean (but full-featured) Websites
Contact Me Let's save you some time, money, and frustration as you move forward with OpenRoads
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