嗡嗡作响的事件的嗡嗡声！

Geomatics专业团体董事会主席克里斯·普雷斯顿（Chris Preston）说，即将到来的任务是在Geo业务的成功基础上建立成功。但是与此同时，Headingley有板球！

The late spring and early summer in the UK brings fresh growth and that seems to have been the case in the survey industry with many organisations reporting that they are very busy.

It was also fantastic to see so many taking time off from “the day job” to join us at GEO Business in late May. What transpired was for me one of the most encouraging events I have seen in the industry for as long as I can remember. There was a real “buzz” about the event, from the opening welcoming drinks to the well attended final conference session. When I asked exhibitors and delegates for a few words to describe their thoughts about the event almost all were generally positive. They ranged from a “Stride forward for the industry”, “Informative, bustling, dynamic and professional, long overdue,” “Engaging and reinvigorating,” “Vastly exceeding expectation” and my favourite “GeoRocks!”

似乎每个人都有一些东西，很高兴看到参加的主要井以及主要会议的许多参展商研讨会。我唯一的遗憾是我无法看到我希望发生的所有物品发生冲突，或者有机会赶上行业同事意味着我只是错过了他们。因此，现在的任务是在2015年同一周在同一场所举行的明年一年的地理综合企业的成功基础上。

The conference papers raised many questions and produced many ideas and sound bites some of which are reported elsewhere in GW by Richard Groom. For me I liked Neil Ackroyd’s point about the “Democratisation of data,” David Phillip’s ideas on the “Three geospatial tribes of CAD, GIS and BIM”. Which one of them are you in? Again with regard to BIM – CAPEX+OPEX= TOTEX. In other words stop thinking of these costs as separate and just class them as one thing. Then there was the idea of Social BIM from Matthew McCarter (TfL) and Casey Rutland (Arup), sharing the knowledge of BIM through social media such as Twitter #UKBIMCREW and LinkedIn. Do you use these media?

最伟大的事情之一GEO业务显示was what can be achieved when all in the industry work together with a common purpose. Collaboration seems now to be coming to the fore very much more in our businesses, whether it is collaboration in BIM or creating so-called alliances of organisations, working together on a single project. This is not something new as most of us have seen the impact of how working as a team across organisational boundaries can be so much more than the sum of the parts, providing a positive working environment without the adversarial attitudes that in the past have wrecked so many relationships. However, such business relationships require mature organisations that are prepared to trust one another. Have we got to this point yet in our industry?

Help for Smaller Businesses

How many of you are aware of the RICS small business hub on the RICS website? There are a number of fact sheets produced for your assistance. Please let me know what you think of these. Those that seem useful include: Starting up a new business, Developing a business plan, Business development, Practice finance, People management and a number related to PII.

本文发表于2014年7月/8月在地球世界上