Collaboration Information System in Building

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COLLABORATION INFORMATION SYSTEM IN BETTER BUILDING
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COLLABORATION INFORMATION SYSTEM IN BETTER BUILDING
Executive Summary
Collaboration Information System (CIS) can play a huge role in any sort of business to enhance
the collaboration of each of the stakeholders of the business. The different categories of features
which are generally there in CIS are enhanced communication facilities, content sharing ability,
task management, and numerous discussion forums. It can allows the stakeholders of the
business to resolve any sort of dispute or confusions. Broad spectrum of technologies are
sometimes incorporated in the CIS which allows the employers of commercial establishments to
move towards the organizational target which is common for each of the employees. Diverse
categories of online collaboration tools are incorporated in CIS like Slack, Trello and Wimi.
Workplace collaboration of the business can be enhanced using CIS as well. Construction
business have diverse categories of stakeholders like sun contractors, suppliers and service
providers , each of these stakeholders can be significantly benefited after the incorporation of
CIS. The impact of using CIS in Better Building can be identified from this report in a detailed
manner. How the business operations of Better Building will be impacted as a result of
introducing CIS shall be discussed in this report as well. This report shall also focus on the
impact of CIS on the project managers in Better Building. The lasting impact of deploying CIS
shall be represented in the concluding unit of this report.
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COLLABORATION INFORMATION SYSTEM IN BETTER BUILDING
Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Information about the new system...................................................................................................3
Impact on the business operations...................................................................................................5
Assistance of the project managers..................................................................................................9
Impact of the future business.........................................................................................................10
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................17
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COLLABORATION INFORMATION SYSTEM IN BETTER BUILDING
Introduction
The main objective of this report will be very much beneficial for the leadership team of
better building as they can understand the insights of the selected Information System using this
paper. The leadership team of this commercial establishment can understand the significance as
well as the impact of this new IS using this report. The features as well as the functionalities of
the IS will be critically examined in this report in an organized manner. The impact of the new IS
on the business requirements of this commercial organization shall also be highlighted in this
report. How the business operations of this business will be impacted will be focussed in this
paper in a detailed manner (Bizfluent.com. 2019). The impact of the incorporation of the new IS
on both the internal entities of this business in terms of the staffs as well as the on the external
entities in terms of the providers of the raw materials shall be discussed in an organized manner
in this report. The usefulness of the new IS for the project managers of this construction agency
shall also be discussed in this report in a systemized modus. The impact of the IS on the future
business processes of this construction organization shall also be reviewed and analysed in the
concluding sections of this report (Consolidated Technologies, Inc. 2019). The impact of the new
IS which can help this construction organization to have a competitive edge over the other
similar construction agencies in Australia shall also be examined in this report.
Thus, it can be said that the incorporation of the new IS can be very much significant for
the leadership team of this construction organization. It can also be said that the existing project
management practices of this construction organization can be reviewed after the incorporation
of the new IS.
There are diverse categories of Information Systems which can be deployed in this
construction agency in terms of the Customer Relationship system, Collaboration system and
Knowledge management system. This report shall be focussing on the incorporation of the
Collaboration Information System (CIS) in this construction organization (Encyclopedia
Britannica. 2019). The ensuing unit of the paper can be very much beneficial for the leadership
team of this organization to understand CIS in a detailed manner.
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COLLABORATION INFORMATION SYSTEM IN BETTER BUILDING
Information about the new system
This unit of the report shall be focussing on the features as well as the functionalities of
CIS which was selected in order to maintain the growth of this business. The alignment of the
new IS considering the business operations of this organization shall be evaluated in this section
of the report.
The prime reason behind the incorporation of the CIS in this commercial establishment is
to enhance the collaboration of diverse categories of external and internal stakeholders of this
commercial establishment. One of the prime functionality of CIS is that it helps in having
established connection among each of the stakeholders of this organization like the government
officials, providers of the raw materials, IT technicians, suppliers, contractors, sun contractors,
local agents, and other stakeholders like the workers and providers of the construction
technologies (Chau 2019). The power and impact of each of each of the stakeholders can also be
enhanced in the first place using the CIS. Decision making ability is one of the other significant
characterises feature of the CIS. CIS shall be also having specifications in terms of the
collaboration of each of the stakeholders of this business. The new CIS shall have the capability
to transfer data from one source of the business to another (Skilton, Wiseman and Glick 2018).
Any sort of interpretation can be reflected in an organized and systemized manner using the CIS.
The other functionality of the CIS is managing the operational decision making of this
construction business. Making the managerial decisions can be the other significant contribution
of this new CIS. The other specification of the CIS is the evaluation of the critical feedback
coming from the human resources of this commercial organization. Better building will be very
much benefitted due to the incorporation of the CIS. Feedback of the consumers of the
construction organization can be managed in an organized manner using the CIS.
The CIS which will be incorporated in this construction agency shall be having two
different categories of the specifications like the functional requirements and the non-functional
requirements (Ruutu, Casey and Kotovirta 2017). The entire definition of the new system can be
understood using the functional requirements whereas each of the judgements and decision
making ability of the CIS falls under the category of the non-functional requirements. The
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