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News Release from: Bentley Systems | Subject: Putting best practices into action
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 24 October 2006
BE Magazine: putting best practices into
action
In-depth look at how organizations can put best practices into action to improve customer satisfaction, enhance performance, cut costs, and overcome communications barriers.
The latest issue of BE Magazine, published by Bentley Systems, Incorporated, begins with an in-depth look at how organizations can put best practices into action to improve customer satisfaction, enhance performance, cut costs, and overcome communications barriers In the article, Leah Garris, senior associate editor of Buildings Magazine, guides readers through the process of establishing a method for defining and tracking department best practices and relaying them to other relevant departments within the enterprise
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 9 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Garris says that organizations without a best practices program of any kind should start small.
As she points out, "Begin by identifying one or two processes to work with, and you'll soon find yourself looking for ways to turn 'good' and 'better' into 'best.'" Next in the issue is a feature covering OnDemand eLearning - the newest in professional training best practices.
In the article, Christopher Rogers, a program manager for Bentley, explains that these interactive courses, which consist of lectures, hands-on sessions, and feature clips of user tasks, enable users to find focused training immediately and return to work quickly.
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In addition, because eLearning requires no travel, organizations can eliminate these expenses in their budgets.
Also included in the article is commentary on eLearning from William Rothwell, Ph.D., professor of workforce education at Penn State University, and John Ford, director of management education at ZweigWhite.
In the article "Integrating CAD and GIS Data To Enable Better Intelligence," Sam Bacharach, an executive director with the Open Geospatial Consortium, discusses the importance of interoperability among geospatial and building data to defense and domestic security.
Says Bacharach, "When we think of geospatial intelligence in the context of national security, we usually think of maps and Earth imagery".
"But much of the intelligence needed for defense and domestic security involves the inside as well as the outside of facilities and structures".
He explains that digital design drawings, construction documents, and as-built and occupant records can support geospatial intelligence for event simulation, searches, evacuations, security patrols, rescues, mobilization planning, and much more.
In his column "The Last Word," CEO Greg Bentley discusses the importance of "interoperations" to the increasingly distributed enterprises that design and manage the world's infrastructure.
Mr.Bentley explains that through interoperations:.
* Data begins to flow throughout the distributed enterprise.
* Information can be easily reused.
* Project participants can use the tools of their choice.
* Money wasted for want of interoperability can be saved.
* Productivity can be increased.
He adds that, for all of these reasons, Bentley's focus and commitment go beyond the concept of interoperability to the actual delivery of the benefits that interoperations can provide.
Says Mr.Bentley, "Infrastructure owner-operators should expect, demand, and leverage nothing less." Also featured in this issue of BE Magazine is information on a call for presentations for the upcoming BE Conferences.
Bentley users are invited to submit an application to present a best practices session at either BE Conference 2007, taking place April 29-May 3, in Los Angeles, California, or BE Conference Europe, taking place June 10-14 in London.
Best practices presentations in architectural, engineering, and construction as well as GIS/geospatial topics will be considered.
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