Enterprise Quality Management: On Non-financial Measures

Point-of-construction data feeds quality management metrics.

In The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy Into Action, authors Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton assert that measuring business strategy needs to be an integrated balance of both financial and non-financial measures. Generally, it is the finanicial measures that are the well-established and well-adopted metrics, relatively easy to [...]

Enterprise Quality Management: The 1-10-100 Rule

In the AIA Practice Management Digest of Spring 2009, in the article “The Cost of Quality: Is “An Ounce of Prevention” Really Worth A Pound of Cure?,” author Robert P. Smith, AIA highlights how the construction industry expresses the relationship between quality and operating efficiency. Philip B. Crosby in Quality Is Free[1] presents the case [...]

Construction Content: Who owns the data?

Today, I’m blogging about part 1 in a new series on data ownership in the collaborative and cooperative environment of database-driven construction management for the field, at the point of construction…

As Vela software customers all share a synchronized and centralized hosted database, structured by role-based access and permissions, from time to time, design and [...]