Every phase of one’s personal and professional journey is marked by pivotal people, events, and learnings. It can be a professor from school, a mentor at work, or timely circumstance. For me, back in 2005, learning about building information modeling (BIM) set me on a new career path. It became my passion. My focus began shifting from architecture towards technology.
“Every CEO is talking about digital transformation right now,” a General Assembly executive recently said. In late 2018, Salesforce's Marc Benioff said the spending cycle is stronger than he's seen previously as well.
The leaders of a large healthcare system had a challenge ahead of them. They had adopted an ambitious new strategy of expanding into several communities, but the department that would be overseeing that expansion hadn’t updated its business processes in a very long time.
One of the biggest challenges was simply how to manage the scale of the planned expansion. With the new plans in place, the department’s typical annual budget had increased tenfold, so overrun risks had suddenly become much higher.
