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UPCOMING EVENTS & NEWS
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Upcoming Events
How Highways England are Moving an Entire Industry Towards Data Driven Projects
14 April 2021, 05:30 PM 07:00 PM
To attend the event please go to Meetup: https://bit.ly/39qKNTh Infrastructure projects are rich in data, but we often struggle to leverage it. The data isn’t just on performance metrics and cubic metres of soil, we also capture data on supplier performance, compensation events, and a wide variety of other data. This data is held at every level of our supply chain. Within his talk Alan Perkins, Head of Complex Infrastructure Programme, will be providing an overview of how Highways EInteractive Event: The Road to Project Data Analytics Greatness, in 2 hours
19 April 2021, 11:00 AM 01:00 PM
To sign up to the event: https://bit.ly/3sDj7C4 The Road to Project Data Analytics Greatness is back! After popular demand, we have decided to rerun our interactive session for those who couldn't attend! Within this session James Smith, PhD will be walking you through all the components of project data analytics, through the lens of a project delivery professional. Many existing roles will look radically different in a few years time; for some it will be a matter of adapt or becomeThe Power of Data Persuasion: Optimising your Data-driven Business Case
28 April 2021, 05:30 PM 07:00 PM
To attend the event please go to: https://bit.ly/2PmjYsy When extracting insights from project data, a symptom of not understanding the problem statement, is that we often get overwhelmed and dive in without any substantial planning. We end up with several shallow takes on what our data might suggests, but we lack the depth to support and really drive our business case. This talk will showcase the importance of meticulously planning your approach to optimise your implementation of d -
COMMUNITY INSIGHTS
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Blog Entries
Why we need a Project Data Analytics Task Force
In 2017 we met with people from the NHS and Network Rail to discuss the challenge of learning from experience and how advanced data analytics holds the key. I then developed a paper with Dr Stephen Duffield that summarised our research into 20,000 lessons lesson; we concluded that the process just doesn’t work. We take the complexity of a project and boil the experience down into a few trite paragraphs that are often statements of the obvious. Even today, a recent paper from Grant Mills et al hi
Who has control of the data?
Effective project data analytics requires data; lots of data. There is a split across industry into how this challenge is tackled, divided into various camps. I’ve summarised them into 5 areas but I recognise that it is difficult to capture all the nuances within such a short blog. 1. Closed systems. This is where a few companies are heading, creating their own vaults of data to shape their own models and analysis. We are seeing these starting to proliferate, from waste to project perfor
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