Dropbox Consulting for Construction | Leading Partner and Reseller

Construction firms want more than pen to paper, before and after Dropbox.

Before	After
Disparate Data & Technology	Single Source of Truth
1000s of assets in many locations	Eliminate data silos
Lack of access to the right info at the right time	Availability of real-time and latest data
High friction creates technology barriers	Ease of Use

Before	After
Slow, Disorganized, and Inconsistent	Fast Collaboration
Significant number of versions and changes	Share & view large files without downloads or emails
Connectivity issues in remote locations	Enable Access in any location

Before	After
Poor Tech Functionality	High Fidelity
Lost comments, versions, files	Track latest activity, versions and permissions
Need to use physical storage	Secure digital storage
Little trust across teams	Audit Trail

Project Managers and Dropbox

Project managers ensure every building project is met to completion. They work across different teams and stakeholders, transforming initiatives into tangible action steps.

Project managers build processes to execute. For more complex projects, they automate whatever process they can to their best ability. Despite their best efforts, these are three common roadblocks that continue to hold them back:

Disparate Data & Technology

Disparate sources of information and many individuals and companies to collaborate with. They must gather information across different sources, prioritize what matters to project outcomes, define and assign tasks to move the work forward.

Slow, Disorganized, and Inconsistent

With that in mind, change is constant across every project. Managing design changes is critical. Too many changes in a project can burn out stakeholders and lead to costly errors across project cycle. Project managers implement processes to help mitigate change fatigue and protect team’s wellbeing. Execution of this work impacts schedule, cost, and broader field work.

Poor Tech Functionality

There are too many details to consider in every project and communication gets lost in translation. Along with tight deadlines, the lack of tools to help give structure and control over content overwhelms project managers into submission. Thus, project managers rationalize choosing the status quo over any prospective solutions as the “lesser of two evils”.

With Dropbox, our document management solution is a no-brainer for project managers and firms as a whole. Here’s why: Single Source of Truth Eliminate manual processes and reliance on paper. Approval processes are extensive and require tools that can automate workflows to distribute tasks to outside participants in a secure manner.

Fast Collaboration

Business-led automation can overcome IT scarcity. Our document management solution helps achieve the automation your business needs and aids toward faster collaboration among teams.

High Fidelity

Capital projects present high reward opportunities for process efficiency. Cost of process efficiency is always two-fold. Poorly designed processes can be time-consuming, resource intensive, and error prone. Costs compound dramatically when deadlines are missed or mistakes are made. Dropbox minimizes those costs by keeping every project member on the same page and giving visibility to the work ahead to complete it on-time.

Source: Forrester, “Optimize Cross-Organizational Content And Process-Rich Apps For Construction And Engineering Firms,” McKinnon, C., Koplowitz, R., Hong, D., & Colin, H., 19 Feb 2021.

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