us to ensure we maximise the value of the investment . We have really promoted the use of ‘ Teams ’ to improve collaboration across the organisation and it has been embraced by every group that has tried it .”
Leadership strategy benefited too , with the Corporate Portfolio Management Office ( CPMO ) being given a MS Power BI dashboard that has enabled management to create and share reports and images and insource a lot of contract work . It increased the team ’ s ability to develop projects and cut the time and effort involved in producing reports . That project helped the CPMO win the award of PMO of the year at the PMI Australia awards in 2018 . The Digital Strategy , set to be fully in place by 2025 , aims to create a seamless customer experience through automation and equipping the workforce with digital tools based on robust core IT platforms .
The most successful demonstration of the new work culture arose from the challenge Ford gave to his young developers and engineers to convert thousands of old CAD drawings from different sources onto one new platform . The team used facial recognition technology to identify the images on CAD drawings and then machine learning algorithms to correct and improve them before transferring them to a digital drawing . More than 6,000 Quicksilver files were converted to intelligent AutoCAD drawing files using a machine learning algorithm while 60,000 files were transferred into Autodesk Vault , says Ford . “ The MLA project was a great success – it saved thousands of labour hours and improved the quality and accuracy of our drawings .” The project won two awards – the 2018
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