Assessing BIM IQ
across the organization has utmost importance before going forward. It gives
very clear picture (quantitatively and qualitatively). But how to measure it? A
simplest method will be carrying out organizational level survey like employee engagement
survey or HR surveys where you rate everything on the scale 1 to 5.
An organizational
level survey will have many aspects to consider and it should cover all areas
right from Upper management for strategic part to ground level staff for
implementation purpose. To make things easy let’s classify BIM Planning and Implementation
elements in to following categories:
1.
Strategy
Aspect: It covers the Mission, Vision, Goals and
objectives of the organization related to BIM. It also covers extent of
Management support for the BIM, existence of BIM Champion and BIM Planning Committee.
2.
BIM
Uses: Its highlights specific methods of
implementing BIM and covers areas like Project Specific methods and BIM uses
along with Operational Uses of BIM
3.
Process:
This aspects highlights the type of processes are being used to accomplish BIM
Uses. The processes can be Project specific and Organization Specific.
4.
Information:
This aspects covers information needs for BIM and refers to areas like Model
Level Development (LOD), Facility Data requirements etc.,
5.
Infrastructure: This
aspects checks the technological and physical systems needed for the operations
of BIM with the organization. It covers hardware, software and physical space available.
6.
Personnel: This is last
and most important aspect to evaluate. Its assessed roles and responsibility of
every employee along with need of further training and willingness to change.
All this aspects
can be further divided and each division can be presented as questions and can
be asked to rate form scale 0 to 5. But what this scale will signify? Let’s
just assign qualitative value to each number.
Number 0 – signifies Non Existent
Number 1 – signifies Initial
Stage
Number 2 – signifies Managed
stage
Number 3 – signifies define
Stage
Number 4 – signifies Quantitatively
Managed
Number 5 – signifies Optimizing
Let’s what it
means:
0 – Non Existent:
It means the
process or methods has not been developed or incorporated in current business.
There is no defined goals or objective and process is simply does not exist.
1- Initial Stage:
This means the
process is in initial stage and it has produce results for some specific goals
and objectives. But those processes are usually ad hoc and chaotic. There is no
stable environment to support and there is possibility of abandoning it in the
time of crisis.
2- Manages stage:
This means the related
process or methods are planned and executed in accordance with policy, employs
skilled people having adequate resources to produce controlled outputs and those
are monitored, controlled and reviewed and evaluated for future use.
3-Defined:
This means related
process or methods are tailored to suit organizations standards. A guidelines
and process are developed and included in asset matrix of the organization.
4-Quatitatively Managed:
This means
statistical and other quantitative techniques are developed to measure the performance
of related method. The process gates asses on the basis of quantitative data
and are compared with previous results.
5-Optimizing:
This means process
is continually improved through incremental and innovative processes and technological
improvements based on quantitative data.
By using this as a
guidelines we can assess the organization BIM IQ.
We will evaluate
each aspect in further details along with related areas and probable questioner’s
in coming blogs.
P.S. The scale is
not necessarily form 0 to 5 and can be any scale like 0 to 10. The each scale
can be defined differently based on organization requirement.
