This is Building Stories. A serialized book that breaks the digital transformation of the Architectur, Engineering, Construction, and Operation (AECO) industry down into five steps and some useful mind hacks.
Once per week you will receive a chapter and you will read many stories - hence the title "Building Stories." The story of this book is that it's my second attempt. I threw away the first manuscript after reading it half a year later. It was just another one of these boring books. So, I sat down in the summer of 2022 and restarted from scratch with a completely new approach.
I believe the best approach to learning is doing it by yourself. Unfortunately, this can be very costly, especially in organizations when the same "mistakes" are repeated consistently. The second-best approach is listening or reading stories. Stories will make remembering and relating the learnings to your life easier. You won't get a recipe, but hopefully, it will trigger your critical thinking - even more importantly, amuse you.
I tell these stories from other contributing authors and me. With the stories, you'll get to know the aCASE - framework with five steps to understand the different levels of the digital transformation of the industry. It will help you to see where the company, the project, and the employees stand and where they should go further. The steps are:
Step 1: Awareness of the status quo
Step 2: Communicating and collaborating
Step 3: Automating what works
Step 4: Simulating building performance
Step 5: Empowering the business model
Moreover, I will share different mind hacks that helped me and others. These mind hacks are short, catchy phrases that remind us about a particular behavior. E.g., automate complicated, not complex, problems.