Heaven Forbid!
Posted by Spikey on Aug 12, 2011 in Blog, Project Management | Comments Off
That you or one of your staff, or associate companies, or sub contractors should become injured or have an accident in the workplace. I’m sure the health and safety of your employees is your prime concern, but heaven forbid, if an accident were to happen how much worse would it be if you had failed to live up to your responsibilities , with regards to current health and safety...
Read MoreQuality Assurance
Posted by Spikey on Feb 10, 2011 in Blog, construction, Control, Drawing management, Extranet, Project Management | Comments Off
Get it right first time, on time, every time is a useful definition of “quality”. Whatever your definition or philosophy in relation to QA, when you get down to the nitty-gritty mechanisms that actually make quality work, certain principles that need to be engrained at every level of your organisation. For example always using the latest version of any specific document,...
Read MoreWhere do you skate to?
Posted by Spikey on Oct 6, 2010 in Blog, Extranet, Project Management | Comments Off
“I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been”. So goes the quote accredited to Wayne Gretzky nicknamed “The Great One” and apparently the greatest ice hockey player ever to have lived. It’s an interesting quotation that has been used in numerous business presentations over the years. The emergence of online or “cloud based” business...
Read MoreCollabor8 on an iPad!
Posted by Spikey on Sep 28, 2010 in Drawing management, News, Project Management | Comments Off
We’ve always said that all you needed to access our application was a browser and an Internet connection. You can access Collabor8 from a mobile phone although in truth the screen tends to be too small to provide perfect viewing or access to your information. So we were certainly interested when we had the opportunity of seeing how Collabor8 looked on an iPad. I have to say the results...
Read MorePlace for everything and everything in its place
Posted by Spikey on Sep 28, 2010 in Blog, Project Management | Comments Off
“A place for everything and everything in its place” was pretty much the phrase used by one of our clients when describing the reason behind their purchase of our online project management system Collabor8online. He added “I want to know where all the relevant contract documentation is and I want to be able to get to it when I need it, whether I’m in the office, on site or even at...
Read More5 Reasons Why
Posted by Spikey on Sep 2, 2010 in Blog, construction, Drawing management, Project Management | Comments Off
It’s been suggested that our previous article “10 reasons why you should collabor8online” was a little long-winded, so we’ve talked to a few customers and asked them to give us their “reasons why”, here are the top five. 1. To publish Drawings, Specifications and Project documentation. Making sure that everyone has the most recent version and establishing one...
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