{"id":23568,"date":"2016-04-14T14:35:19","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T14:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=23568"},"modified":"2016-04-15T09:54:23","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T09:54:23","slug":"analogue-villains-digital-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/digital-construction-news\/bim-news\/analogue-villains-digital-world\/23568\/","title":{"rendered":"Analogue villains in a digital world"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span>The world has become increasingly digitalised and construction, as well as wider society, must adapt. John Eynon,\u00a0Consultant at\u00a0Open Water Consulting explains&#8230;<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The saga of the Hatton Garden burglary is topical, but somehow it struck me as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/crime\/hatton-garden-heist-how-a-gang-of-old-school-villains-turned-out-to-be-far-from-ealing-comedy-a6927816.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span>metaphor for change<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0The judge in the case described the gang as &#8220;old school villains&#8221;.\u00a0The BBC website on one post said that the burglary was &#8220;doomed to fail.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>They were undone by digital technology!\u00a0Automatic Number Plate Recognition, mobile phone tracking and CCTV data aggregation were their downfall.\u00a0They hadn&#8217;t kept up-to-date with technology and had no idea of its capability, so they paid the price.\u00a0They had ignorantly underestimated the technical capability of the competition\u00a0(the police), and made schoolboy errors.<\/p>\n<p>There is a lesson here, particularly for us \u2018baby boomers\u2019, and middle managers with the \u2018millennials\u2019 snapping at our heels. Old school might be what we know, but it just won\u2019t cut it any more.\u00a0Our world is changing, bewilderingly rapidly, and in ways we could have only dreamed of a few years ago.<\/p>\n<p>This is about more than BIM. BIM is more than just one project. It is about the flow of digital information informing and shaping every aspect of our lives. More than the built environment industry \u2013 everything.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, for your organization, your business, and yes, your career, we all need to respond and adapt to survive and succeed. Remember, if you don\u2019t, at least some of your competitors will, and we know what happens next. The digital revolution is, and will, affect us all in some way, and we need to keep up. Are you?<\/p>\n<p>There is a lesson here &#8211; you might not go to prison for what you\u2019re doing on a daily basis, but if you stick to business as usual as it was, then you might go out of business!<\/p>\n<p><i>JOHNEYNON. \u2013 is a journeyman architect, design manager, writer and blogger. You can catch up with him at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zenanddm.com\" target=\"_blank\"><span>www.zenanddm.com<\/span><\/a><\/i><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>John Eynon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Consultant<\/p>\n<p>Open Water Consulting<\/p>\n<p><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openwaterconsulting.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.openwaterconsulting.co.uk<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><a href=\"http:\/\/zenanddm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/zenanddm.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Please note: this is a commercial profile<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world has become increasingly digitalised and construction, as well as wider society, must adapt. John Eynon,\u00a0Consultant at\u00a0Open Water Consulting explains&#8230; The saga of the Hatton Garden burglary is topical, but somehow it struck me as a metaphor for change.\u00a0The judge in the case described the gang as &#8220;old school villains&#8221;.\u00a0The BBC website on one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[305],"tags":[],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23568","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-bim-news"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Analogue villains in a digital world | Planning, Building &amp; Construction Today<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The world has become increasingly digitalised and construction, as well as wider society, must adapt. 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