In a previous post – “Big data deluge: new challenges for collaboration” – I discussed the vital importance of managing explosive volumes of data to ensure effective collaboration. In reality, that’s only half the story. The other side of big data is the opportunity to leverage a large body of intelligence from multiple sources for effective collaboration.
Large projects, particularly capital projects, typically involve hundreds of people and millions of documents and items of correspondence. Each project generates a massive amount of intelligence in the form of information, communications and processes. With today’s mobile and web-based collaboration technology, project data is captured and shared anytime from anywhere that project team members happen to be – the office, the site, the home, the airport, the hotel. Each data point contributes to a progressively larger mosaic of intelligence about the project.
