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		<title>Collaboration for Grown ups: The Collaboration System User Interface: 10 Questions You Need to Ask</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this week’s Collaboration for Grown Ups post on Computerworld.com, it’s all about user adoption. After all, what’s the use in investing in a system that isn’t being used. In a recent post, we discussed top-down drivers that are imperative to ensuring adoption, such as user buy-in and training.  In this post, we focus on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aconex.com/blogs/2012/05/collaboration-for-grown-ups-the-collaboration-system-user-interface-10-questions-you-need-to-ask.html</link>
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		<title>Collaboration for Grown ups: Getting Collaboration Up and Running</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this week’s Collaboration for Grown Ups post on Computerworld.com, we take a look at how adoption of a collaboration system within and between organizations depends on a very crucial initial stage: Buy-in.  It’s about getting users to not only understand, but also accept that the benefits of the new system and process will outweigh [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aconex.com/blogs/2012/04/collaboration-for-grown-ups-getting-collaboration-up-and-running.html</link>
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		<title>ENR Survey Results Highlight Interoperability, BIM</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Aconex spends a lot of time listening to what our current and future customers want, so when I read ENR’s recent tech tools reader survey (subscription required), I was happy to see that we’re headed in the right direction.  Not surprising, the greatest tech desire of ENR readers is “true interoperability of all their software [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aconex.com/blogs/2012/03/%e2%80%9cenr-survey-results-highlight-interoperability-bim%e2%80%9d.html</link>
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		<title>Collaboration for Grown ups: You want to collaborate? Forget an enterprise solution.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my last post on Collaboration for Grown Ups, I’ve focused on technologies that are commonly mislabeled as collaboration.  Continuing with the theme this week, I cover enterprise solutions and why the very nature of them prohibits you from collaborating across your entire supply chain.  The goal of collaboration is to keep all parties equal, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aconex.com/blogs/2012/03/collaboration-for-grown-ups-you-want-to-collaborate-forget-an-enterprise-solution.html</link>
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		<title>Collaboration for Grown ups: FTP is not collaboration and it never will be</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Collaboration for Grown ups: FTP is not collaboration and it never will be &#160; In my last few posts on Collaboration for Grown Ups, I touched on a variety of different points that play into collaboration best practices, tools and technologies. For this week’s post, I’m focusing on one very specific technology that is commonly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aconex.com/blogs/2012/03/collaboration-for-grown-ups-ftp-is-not-collaboration-and-it-never-will-be.html</link>
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		<title>Engineering News-Record Story on P3s Highlight Graham Construction Projects</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d like to congratulate Aconex customer Graham Construction on being featured in an ENR article on January 31.  “Private Funding Finds A Way Into Other Public Spaces” focuses on how public-private partnerships (P3) can save on long-term life-cycle costs.  We&#8217;re proud of the work we&#8217;re doing with them on the US$426 million expansion of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aconex.com/blogs/2012/02/engineering-news-record-story-on-p3s-highlight-graham-construction-projects.html</link>
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		<title>Collaboration for Grown ups: Top 10 considerations for collaboration tools: Part Two, users</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this week’s Collaboration for Grown Ups post, I’m diving into the second and final post of the collaboration tool considerations series. We’ve already discussed the technology considerations, so now it’s time to dial into what will ultimately drive adoption: users. Ensuring a quality user experience with the collaboration tool results in a higher adoption [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aconex.com/blogs/2012/02/collaboration-for-grown-ups-top-10-considerations-for-collaboration-tools-part-two-users.html</link>
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		<title>Collaboration for Grown ups: Top 10 considerations for collaboration tools: Part One, technology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For some just starting to explore collaboration and its benefits, the task of choosing a solution for an organization can be daunting. In this week’s Collaboration for Grown Ups post, I’m featuring part 1 of a 2-part series to help guide organizations through some key technology considerations to ensure a system meets expectations. &#160; From [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aconex.com/blogs/2012/01/collaboration-for-grown-ups-top-10-considerations-for-collaboration-tools-part-one-technology.html</link>
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		<title>Collaboration for Grown ups: Collaboration trends for 2012: Part two</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Collaboration for Grown Ups is well underway and I’m kicking off 2012 with what I promised: the second part of my collaboration trend predictions for the coming year. Part one addressed trends like Big Data and social networking. For part two, I switched gears a little bit into cloud deployment and how it relates to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aconex.com/blogs/2012/01/collaboration-for-grown-ups-collaboration-trends-for-2012-part-two.html</link>
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		<title>Fun, Innovation &amp; Delivery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in 2009, Simon Bristow presented to the Agile Australia conference on how Aconex had incorporated “Inter-Sprint Breaks” into the Agile process to avoid burning out teams with the pressures of back-to-back sprint delivery. Included in the set of activities that Aconex undertakes in these breaks were Hackathons (one day to work on a project [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aconex.com/blogs/2012/01/fun-innovation-delivery.html</link>
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