"BIM: A Healthy Disruption to a Fragmented and Broken Process"_response

_"Is BIM the catalyst to unsettle and shake-up the construction industry?"
_inefficiencies of the construction industry root from communication errors, failure in drawings, etc
_"construction industry productivity not only lags behind other industries, but is also in decline"
_a solution to this problem is a more improved way of communicating between those at the construction site and those behind the desks. 
_"notion of collaboration"
_BIM is not "salvation," but a step towards more productive construction.
_BIM causes and will lead to ease of collaboration.
_BIM can also identify and eliminate waste in the project cycle. 
_"A host of new businesses will emerge to meet the needs of a digitally based process"
_Building Information Modeling = Business Intelligence Model
_striving to connect facilities to corporate
_"Marketing distinctions between BIM, CAD, CAFM, WMIS, CMMS and other construction industry products will blue"
_Systems being integrated into one would be beneficial to all
_"IT skills become an increasingly important core competency for project delivery"
_"Unlike the CAD migration of the 80s, the BIM disruption is being felt at the highest management levels of the industry"
_new risks are created from this "disruption." adjusting to a new set of errors will be a part of the learning curve
_"a broad array of educational and training programs will be needed to make the transition to an information driven process"
_transition to BIM is underway. the disruption any new change causes will ideally lead to profit