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Fresh perspectives
Dear customers, partners and friends of Newforma:
In this issue of the Newformant newsletter, interesting perspectives abound. An IT director tells why he’s putting project information management software at the top of his to-do list. A director of customer satisfaction tells how he helps people learn software. A conference on integrated project delivery offers perspectives on implementing IPD. And our cameraman captures Newforma staff members palying in an elevator shaft. Truly!
– Patrick Gillam, editor
Headlines
“How PIM sharpens our focus on clients and designs”
Andrew Hollomon is a principal and director of information technology at Portland, Oregon-based Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects. In this AECbytes Viewpoint article, Andrew describes how project information management software is raising ZGF’s operational efficiency and positioning it for success more quickly than scheduled and more cost-effectively than budgeted.
Newforma, Knowledge Architecture announce partnership
San Francisco-based Knowledge Architecture is an information systems and management consultancy serving architecture and engineering firms. As a Newforma Authorized Partner, Knowledge Architecture integrates the project information management functions of Newforma® Project Center software with Deltek® Vision®, with AEC digital asset management solutions, and with portals built on the Microsoft® SharePoint® Server and SQL Server® Reporting Services platforms. Read the full news release.
Stagnito hosts first Integrated Project Delivery Conference
Spend a day with leaders in integrated project delivery to explore the most timely and important topics related to IPD, from operational execution to business strategies. Among the many presenters, Newforma CEO Ian Howell is participating in a panel discussion entitled “The State of Integrated Project Delivery: An Executive Perspective,” moderated by Brad Horst, Principal and CIO of Einhorn Yaffee Prescott Architecture & Engineering. Visit the Stagnito (formerly ZweigWhite) website for details.
“Food for Thought” is back, this time from London
In “Bangers and mash, tappers and listeners, and the curse of knowledge,” Newforma Director of Customer Satisfaction Dan Conery tells how one dish can constantly surprise you, reveals how assumptions can sabotage software training, and tells how he uses knowledge gaps to improve Newforma software training.
At this party, people were climbing the walls
Newforma staff kicked off the third quarter of 2009 with an outing to Vertical Dreams, an indoor climbing gym in Manchester's Mill District. Talk about setting high goals: some of the climbs go up four stories, or 70 feet! See how it looked through the eye and camera of Bob Batcheler.
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