Current Business Environment – Deconstruction of the AECOO Sector (Architecture, Engineering, Construction, Operations, Owner)

1. Falling Transaction Costs
2. Falling Computing Costs
3. Falling Communication Costs
4. Increasing Collaboration and Communication
5. Over half of All Information is Digital… has and IP Address
6. Patterns are Now Transparent – Cost, Function, Productivity, …
7. Computer Software Applications and Traditional Databases are Dead – Being Replaced by Plug-ins and On-demand Data
8. Life-cycle Cost vs. First-Cost Focus
9. Propriety Information is contrary to Scale, Growth, Collaboration
10. Small/Local Action with Global Oversight Driving Horizontal vs. Vertical Value Chains

Business strategy is driven by our environment and associated demands and fundamental change is upon all of us.