Mastering Autodesk® Revit® Architecture 2012

How BIM Affects Firm Culture

In understanding where you are and where you want to be in this adoption curve, it's also important to understand that moving between any of the iterations of this curve requires a shift in your internal firm culture. As anyone who's adopted BIM can tell you, the difficulties you might experience do not come from learning a new application but from understanding how that application affects your workflow—and managing that change. The ability to adapt and accept that change within an organization will in some way determine where you fall on the adoption curve.

Predictability vs. Innovation

To understand the process of any change, think about it as a product of happiness over time, as shown in Figure 1.13. The process ...