Source: PropertyGuru Property Report Magazine
Excerpt from PropertyGuru Property Report Magazine:
With his app Novade utilising data and machine learning to simplify site management, Denis Branthonne is leading digital transformation in Asia’s construction industry
The construction industry is famously slow to change. In recent decades, the desktop computer and the Internet drove significant innovations. But both technologies pale in comparison to the impact of the smartphone, which has utterly revolutionised field management.
Denis Branthonne saw this change coming in mobile technology and knew what it meant. In 2014, he left his role as vice-president at Autodesk in Singapore, where he’d overseen Asia and emerging markets for more than a decade, and launched Novade, which is billed as a “next-generation digital solution for site management.” The iPhone 5 was then dominant in the market and costs had fallen to the point that it was finally practical to equip key workers in the field with their own mobile devices to capture and share information.
“Desktop computers and the Internet didn’t mean much for someone in the field. The mobile phone meant something,” Branthonne says. “Frankly speaking, this is what had always been missing in this industry.”
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