By understanding what most people experience when you are introducing new ways of doing business, going through a merger, or making any major changes in your company, it will help you to manage the transition process.

For an E&C contractor managing tight margins or an owner with limited funding resources, today's economic climate demands a careful and diligent selection process for evaluating which projects to build or rehab in any given year.

"Good communication between contractors and owners is the biggest factor for project success. If you're not communicating about change, risk and your vision for the project, you'll run into problems down the line," says Joe Johnson, PMO manager for construction projects at Texas Health Resources.

HardDollar Release 14 brings lots of new features, including period-driven resource employment, batch forecasting and Primavera P6 integration enhancements:

Release 15.1 is the latest release of Oracle’s Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management solution. This release delivers significant advances in functionality and will help companies deliver more projects on schedule and within scope, while reducing overall costs.

Take any company on the S&P 500 list from 1960, and you could expect that company to exist for about 60 years. Fast forward—do the same test for a company today, and the average lifespan is less than a third of what it was—just 18 years.

This is more than a stat. It’s a sign of the transformative times that we’ve entered—a Renaissance-age driven by the connective power of the Internet and the exponential increase of all the possible nodes that can connect to it, from a smartphone to an oil rig. So the message to business leaders is clear—transform or die.

Software Advice, a leading-edge company that connects prospective construction software buyers to software vendors, polled a number of the people it had interactions with regarding construction software in the last year. The survey covered a variety of topics, including prospective buyers’ pain points with their current processes, what areas of their organization they most wanted to approve and the software functionality they most desired.

In the snapshot of results, provided here by Software Advice, there were some intriguing findings

Throughout 2014, the CIO profession was subjected to a baffling series of apocalyptic forecasts and dire predictions that have proven to be laughably wrong.

Where did all these distortions and misperceptions about the stewards of IT strategy and execution come from?

Well, times of extreme change and disruption in the business world—and 2014 surely qualified in spades for that designation—always breed lots of theories about what caused all that upheaval and where it will lead.

Based on the experiences of over 600 respondents, this report will explore proper asset lifecycle management. Specifically the decommissioning phase of an asset's lifecycle - how it needs to be treated like its own major capital project and planned for now while the necessary resources are present.

Communication and collaboration between owners and contractors has been a frustrating, expensive, and ongoing issue in the engineering and construction industry. All the players agree that clear communication is critical to the successful completion of construction projects. Yet, poor communication happens all the time as projects progress to completion. Misunderstandings are commonplace—not only when owner and contractor organizations communicate with each other, but even within those organizations between project team members.