Mobilize your people and deliver meaningful results.
Advancements in technology are reshaping the business of design, construction, and operations. The availability of reliable data is paramount to making critical decisions. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is providing people with new ways to navigate complexity and create efficiencies.
Taking advantage of digital tools means more than purchasing the latest technology: it also means investing in the right expertise and processes. As strategic advisers, we work with architects, builders, and owners to create digital transformation strategies to mobilize your people and deliver meaningful results.
We collaborate with our clients to…
- Establish a transformative vision for technology in your business.
- Develop digital strategies with human-centered tactics.
- Define leadership roles and stakeholder participation.
- Define change management approaches to mobilize people.
Our Digital Transformation Strategies define a structured, human-centered approach for enabling innovation.
We recognize that your business will have it’s own unique process and goals. Digital Transformation is not a ‘one size fits all’ concept. Your plan should be tailored to how you want your business to operate today and in the future. Here are some things we have helped with…
- Process optimization and standards development
- Improved quality assurance and control.
- Implementing new transformative technology concepts.
- Extending creative potential of your teams.
- Enabling internal research, discovery, and development.
- Automating time consuming, low value tasks.
- Reallocating staff to high-value work.
- Integrating multiple sources of data.
- Analyzing data to make better decisions.
Get in touch with us to learn more!
Smart, Healthy, and Fit…
Our strategies utilize methods built around a core set of interrelated organizational characteristics that often determine if a strategy will be successful: smarts, health, and fitness. For organizations, these characteristics drive an organization’s ability to perform, adapt, and be resilient:
- Smart organizations will have readily available (and well documented) processes, procedures, and governance to support adoption and implementation of digital tools, workflows, data, and platforms.
- Healthy organizations will have defined roles, responsibilities, and accountabilities to support productive, equitable, and sustainable working environments.
- Fit organizations will have identified outcomes, performance objectives, and measures of success to determine if their strategies and initiatives are working and the company is improving.
How will Artificial Intelligence Impact Your Design Business?
“AI is an inevitable component of today’s design technology. However, the value delivered by AI is not self-evident and self-realizing. It is incumbent upon business leaders to calibrate their AI investments with expectations for how it mobilize their creative people and deliver results.“
Nathan Miller, CEO Proving Ground
Read the full article:
“Why is AI adoption different from past digital transformations in design?”
CASE STUDY
AI Readiness Roadmap
Proving Ground was contracted by a leading international design organization to develop a roadmap for implementing uses of Artificial Intelligence throughout their design activities. The resultant strategy assesses the the impacts and opportunities for AI through the lens of broader organizational change and innovation. Furthermore, while today’s digital discourse is centered on the impacts of AI, our strategic approach provided a broader perspective for implementing tactics that can serve to bolster the adaptability of your business for new digital transformations – beyond AI – in the future.
The tactics of the roadmap defined approaches to defining leadership roles, enabling research into AI methods, organization user groups for technology exploration, and adopting systems impacting project management, internal knowledge, and design development.
Our Recent Work Includes…
- A digital transformation strategy for a leading hospitality design company for supporting data-driven design.
- An AI readiness and implementation roadmap for a global architecture firm focused on extending human design capability.
- Digital content management strategy supporting owner and architect coordination for a big technology provider and facility owner.
- Data guidelines and facilities data collection strategy for a major international retailer.
Strategies across the Building Industry
Working across the building and operations industry, we are observing these areas of focus for each type of business we serve:
- Architects – Integrate data into the design workflow and roll-out new technologies.
- Engineers – Use data to improve performance and reduce errors.
- Manufacturers – Use data to streamline production and deliver products.
- Owners – Use data to make decisions about operations and future building needs.
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