Organisation: one system for one Project 13 enterprise
The organisation pillar of Project 13 asks the enterprise to behave as one integrated team drawn from many companies, organised around the asset rather than around corporate boundaries. The industry's fragmentation works directly against this: every party arrives with its own systems, its own templates and its own version of the truth, and it takes legendary project leadership just to keep the listing ship pointed at a successful outcome. Even when that leadership exists, the result is sub-optimal compared with a genuinely integrated operation.
Why the software never existed
Part of the problem is economic. There has never been much incentive for software vendors to build true supply-chain-wide systems for construction — the culture and contract structures of the industry prevented anyone from using them. So most construction technology is either bespoke or, where it claims to be collaborative, simply paves a cow path over workflows that have existed for generations.
What one system looks like
UniPhi was built to be the exception: a single database, affordable enough for any sized developer, that supports the end-to-end workflows of an entire value chain across an owner's whole portfolio. In one system, the enterprise runs document collaboration simple enough that every trade can find the latest drawings; on-site data capture for defects, safety processes, toolbox talks and daily diaries; issue collaboration from subcontractor to architect to owner; transparent assessment of extensions of time, variations and progress claims; cost tracking at every level of the chain; earned value to measure progress and continually adjust the out-turn cost; and risk management that escalates naturally from the same issues register.
Because everyone works in the same structure, onboarding a new company takes seconds, roles and responsibilities are explicit and enforceable, and there is no month-end ritual of reconciling seven versions of the truth.
One enterprise, one system, one set of numbers.
This post is part of our Project 13 series. Start with the complete guide to Project 13, or read the next pillar: Integration. Contact sales@uniphi.com.au to see how quickly your whole value chain can be on one system.