OM DENNE EPISODE
Six vendors can all deliver their scope successfully, and the project can still fail.
That is the problem Accenture Construct says it was built to solve. We sat down with CEO Adam Shaw to ask why Accenture has put $2.5B into capital projects, and what “one accountable partner” means in practice.
Why the industry buys effort when owners want outcomes
Why owners end up owning the gaps between their vendors
73 to 77% of senior leaders say they positively influence cost, planning and schedule. Only 13% of workers say those decisions consistently shape their daily work.
Where AI is already changing project decisions
Adam’s view is that the talent is already there, and fragmentation is what holds projects back.
Full Episode live on Bricks and Bytes YouTube and Spotify. Link in comments.
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Chapters
00:00 Teaser
00:42 How Owen and Adam first connected 10 years ago
02:30 Quick fire: "Manual quantity takeoffs are dead"
05:25 Why Accenture launched Construct
07:40 Sponsors: Miter, Aphex and Archdesk
10:45 Owner's rep, contractor or something new?
14:40 The research: why capital projects fail
18:36 Is fragmentation a data problem?
21:41 Build or buy: how Construct thinks about technology
26:25 Does Accenture build its own tech?
27:51 What AI makes possible now
29:26 AI use cases inside Accenture Construct
33:28 Leaders vs the field: the 13% gap
37:00 What "one accountable partner" means
39:45 $2.5B and the acquisitions behind Construct
41:56 Integrating acquired firms without destroying them
45:44 Capital project delivery in five years
47:46 Closing thoughts
