Mark Haas has another great post up at the Institute for Management Consultant’s Daily Tips for Consultants blog. In it, he compares the work of consultants to that of detectives, prompting the invocation of the world’s most famous fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes. When asking What Would Sherlock Holmes Do? Haas came up with the following [...]
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Why the new Amazon Kindle Fire isn’t ideal for construction inspections
On Wedenesday, September 28, Amazon announced a new tablet – the 7-inch Kindle Fire. Amazon’s CEO, Jeff Bezos, put on his best Steve Job’s impersonation for the announcement, which also included updates to the entire Kindle line. The most amazing detail of the Kindle Fire has to be the price: $199. Will this replace the [...]
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An Alternative To The iPad For Field Notes & Sketches
For over a dozen years, I have been working in construction consulting, especially in the area of construction defect investigations. I’m always on the lookout for ways to improve the process of collecting data in the field. In the past I’ve written about: Construction experts using iPads for field inspections How archaeologists were using iPads [...]
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The Role of the iPad in Construction Consulting, Green Building and Forensic Investigations
I have written before about construction experts using iPads, companies that have created applications specifically for construction quality control, and even attire for construction consultants and experts using iPads. With the recent unveiling of the second generation iPad, I wanted to provide some additional thoughts on the role that this device will play in construction [...]
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More on iPads “In The Trenches”
ReadWriteWeb published an article yesterday entitled, iPad at Pompeii: Does Tech Really Revolutionize How We Seek the Past? They discuss the recent featured article on Apple’s website, chronicling the experience of archeologists using iPads for documentation on site at Pompeii. RWW asks the following: But is handing out a half dozen tablet computers to archaeologists [...]
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