Hello Partners!
Welcome to Touchplan’s Partner Newsletter! I’m excited to connect with you each month on all things Partnership related, and to share with you exciting new portal, partner, and company updates as well.
Each month I will try to provide you with valuable information that helps your business and sets conditions for a long-term, mutually beneficial relationship with Touchplan.
First, Thank you for your partnership! Our new partner program launched this summer and we are already starting to have success with our new partners. I am grateful for your commitment to our shared success.
Collaboration and communication are very important to me, so if you have any feedback or suggestions on what you’d like to see from our monthly newsletter, please let me know!
I hope you enjoy it! Please share with others in your company as you wish.
What’s New With the Partner Portal?
The Touchplan Partner Portal is now live. Within this site, you can get referral links, documentation on landing pages, claim leads, get the latest news, access marketing and sales tools like presentation templates, ad & e-mail templates, price lists, register accounts, and much more. You will need your access credentials to gain access to the portal. If you can’t remember them please email me.
Here are some highlights that you should make sure you check out on the portal. Here’s a link to the Competitive Matrix and overall Market Information.
What’s New With Touchplan?
The Saturday Shift
The Saturday Shift is Touchplan’s a weekly newsletter dedicated to sharing informative and entertaining content on happenings in and around the construction industry, along with, updates on happenings at Touchplan. Above all, this newsletter is intended to both entertain and educate you every time, every week. As a partner this will also be very helpful. Please take a moment and Subscribe to The Saturday Shift today!
The Content Roundup
We value our partners and for that reason we will provide you with usable marketing content that you can post, email, share and make sure you are getting your prospects and contacts amazing high-quality value based content. Every month you will receive a variety of information ranging from blog posts to podcasts, ebooks, and more! Our marketing department will spend hundreds of hours producing this material and it is at your disposal! Here is the August Content Roundup!
Content Highlights Include:
Episode Four of Voices of Construction (Podcast)
Hosted by Touchplanner Noah Baker, Voices of Construction peels back perceptions and gets to know the passionate people behind the titles in the construction industry. In this edition, Noah Baker speaks with Ross Sterland, Director & Co-Founder of ORBIZ (Touchplan’s strategic partner in Australia), a consulting company in Melbourne, Australia that focuses on Lean practices for construction as well as other industries. They discuss Ross’ path from Toyota in the UK to promoting Lean construction and other happenings in the Australian construction market, and Ross’ devotion to the #RedSox! Give it a listen
Our Latest Webinar Available To Watch
Touchplan hosted a webinar on the topic “How Operationalizing Your Schedule Can Radically Improve Margins.” You can listen to the recording to hear from Touchplanner, George Hunt, CM-Lean, PSP, Patricia Tillmann, Ph.D., CM-Lean from The Boldt Company, Layne Hess from Jacobsen Construction, and Alex Behringer and Evan Franck from The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company. The panel discusses how planning for continuous flow can help teams work efficiently & meet planned milestones.
New 41-Page E-Book Now Available
Read Touchplan’s new e-book based on The Five Big Ideas focused on understanding Lean Construction principles and how the intersection of humans and technology can deliver better results. This report re-examines the components of The Five Big Ideas that help leaders effectively navigate the collaboration of teams, identify opportunities to learn, and create action to design milestone conditions that build the best outcomes of the entire project.
That’s all for now. Talk to you soon!
Jimmy Suppelsa
Strategic Partnerships & Alliances | Touchplan
+1-617-429-2601 (m) | [email protected]
Touchplan Partner Newsletter | February 2022
Hello Partners!
We are already off and running in 2022! January proved to be a great month for Touchplan and the partnerships team. The AEC technology and consulting space is booming with new, innovative solutions with a great deal of talented people, and we are discovering new companies almost daily! Expect our referral program to expand exponentially over the next few months.
We recently welcomed a new member to our Reseller Partnerships Team, Samantha Hart! Sam will be onboarding and assisting resellers around the world and comes to Touchplan with experience in channel management and sales and we are excited to have her join the Touchplan family!
A special welcome to all our new Partners! As we continue to add Reseller Partners, Referral Partners and Technology Alliance Partners to the Touchplan Ecosystem each month, I continue to be excited about the great work we can do together to positively change the construction industry to improve project certainty!
Happy February!
________________
What’s New on the Partner Portal?
[NEW] Onboarding Material Now Available for Reseller Partners
For our Reseller Partners, we have now included an onboarding section to aid your success in selling Touchplan! With three courses offered, you should be able to answer common and valuable questions on how to get started with Touchplan, understand the appropriate responses based on the customer’s experience, and develop an understanding of Touchplan’s sales process. Our goal is to make you as successful as possible. Through our experience we know that the topics and content included in the new onboarding will assist you in becoming a Touchplan sales pro. You may access this section here, or under the “Support” menu dropdown on the portal.
Marketing Video Demonstrations
Check out Touchplan’s video overviews and demonstrations on Look-Ahead Planning, Long-Range Planning, Insights, and Ease of Use. Feel free to share these videos as you please! These videos will be found under the Marketing Tools menu dropdown, under “Videos.”
________________
What’s New with the Partner Program?
[WEBINAR ON-DEMAND] Increase Project Certainty: See Touchplan in Action
This month, we hosted our first webinar of the year, where moderator George Hunt presented a live demonstration of Touchplan, sharing insights into how our tool enhances construction project certainty by delivering approachable, progressive jobsite data and analytical solutions that transform construction into a more collaborative, transparent, and predictable process. To view the recording on demand, check it out here!
[TECH PARTNERSHIPS]
Successful Client Referral from Adam Hoots at Construction ACHE Solutions
We are regularly adding new consultants and referral partners, and all of the work we put in over the last six months is starting to show returns! One of our first Lean Coach referral partners, Adam Hoots at Construction ACHE Solutions successfully referred a client to Touchplan as a part of his Lean coaching program. His client was impressed with his delivery of an on-site LPS training session, and immediately saw the need to digitize the process. The client signed with Touchplan within 48 hours of Adam’s referral. We’re excited about what Adam will continue to do in the future, and are ecstatic to have him as a partner!
Autodesk Construction Cloud
This past month, we also released a press release about our partnership with Autodesk Construction Cloud, a portfolio of software and services that combines advanced technology and a builders network and predictive insights for construction teams. To learn more, read about how our new relationship provides contractors with easier access to project information.
[NEW COACH / CONSULTANT PARTNERSHIPS]
Builthink Consultants
We are excited to announce our newest partnership with Builthink Consultants, who assist, advise and support clients in the construction industry in order to maximize the performance of each stakeholder through their digital transformation and the application of innovative practices. Our partnership promotes Touchplan’s technology to owners, contractors, and specialty trade companies in Canada. We are excited to be partnering with Builthink and look out for the press release coming soon!
GKC Consultants
This past month, we announced our marketing partnership with GKC Consultants, an organization specializing in enterprise-wide tailor-made solutions, known for delivering world-class training, consulting & implementation services to clients. This partnership promotes Touchplan’s technology to owners, contractors, and specialty trade companies in India. Read more about our partnership here!
Project7 Consultancy
We officially released a press release with Project7 Consultancy about our new partnership, addressing the Construction Productivity Gap and our alliance for transforming global Infrastructure delivery. In addition, we sat down with Daniel Shakespeare, Principal Consultant at Project7, to learn a little more about Project 7 and the value in partnering with Touchplan. To read about it, check out the blog post here!
________________
Product Spotlight:
A New Look at Mobile Planning
Introducing one of Touchplan’s newest enhancements, Mobile Planning! Now teams can see their project plan and make updates in the field, which helps communication across the project team and keeps information from getting forgotten between the construction site and the trailer. For more information on this release, check out this blog post.
For a video demonstration of Touchplan’s Mobile Planning feature, watch it here!
________________
What’s New with Touchplan?
Top Stories from January:
This past month, Touchplan produced three blog posts, three podcasts, one webinar, and more! Take a look at some of our highlights of the month, and share with your network as you please.
Content Highlights
[BLOG POST] Some of the Best Things Work In Pairs – Touchplan & Reality Capture+
Touchplanner Andrew Piland discusses the importance of combining project planning and imagery to run a much more efficient job site, enhancing project certainty.
[PODCAST] Upping Your Game Ep. #4 FOCCCUS On Your Bottleneck
On this episode of Upping Your Game, George sits down with Clarke Ching (aka The Bottleneck Guy), an author of several books and an expert in agile and the theory of constraints, where the two discuss the basics behind the theory of constraints, the focus formula; and how to tie it all back to everyday construction work. This discussion provides some great insights that can take your construction project to the next level.
[PRESS RELEASE] Touchplan and Alberici-Flintco Complete Enterprise Agreement
This past month, Touchplan and Alberici-Flintco completed an enterprise agreement that provides the two North American construction firms and their trade partners unlimited use of Touchplan’s intuitive daily planning software. Read the full details of the agreement here!
It’s been a very productive month here at Touchplan, and we look forward to what we can achieve together with you, our partners, in 2022!
As always, please share any questions or feedback if you have them.
See you next month!
Best,
Touchplan Partner Newsletter | January 2022
Hello Partners!
Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a relaxing holiday and took some well-deserved time off. 2021 has been an eventful year, including the launch of Touchplan’s Partner Program. I am grateful for the partnerships we have been able to make and I am excited for the continuous opportunities we will create together in 2022.
As we transition into the new year, please let me know if there is anything you would like to see or hear from us going forward. Your feedback is extremely important to me and I value all ideas.
Happy January!
________________
What’s New with the Partner Program?
Whether you are accessing the Partner Portal as a Referral Partner or a Reseller Partner, there is content to help you better partner with Touchplan and your customers. If you are having trouble accessing the portal, please let us know.
A Look Back at 2021:
In just this past year, we have been able to accomplish so much. Take a look at our 2021 Roundup Video where we reached a record year of growth!
[NEW TECH PARTNERSHIPS]
Autodesk
Autodesk, a portfolio of software and services that combines advanced technology, a builders network and predictive insights for construction teams, recently partnered with Touchplan to create a new integration that allows customers to easily track and analyze real-time project health, risk and performance directly in their Autodesk dashboards! Be on the lookout for the full press release coming soon!
Topdeck.ai
Topdeck.ai uses jobsite imaging and artificial intelligence to drive data-driven decisions around logistics plans and workflows. Check out our podcast with one of Topdeck’s Vice President, Mitch Ersek!
[NEW COACH / CONSULTANT PARTNERSHIPS]
ASKM and Associates
Massachusetts-based ASKM and Associates has been a long-time informal partner and champion of Touchplan. Specializing in project-based lean, education, and organizational lean transformation, ASKM also offers virtual simulation and training.
Project7 Consultancy
UK-Based Project7 is a leading Lean transformation & leadership consultancy, and Touchplan is happy to announce our partnership with them to work together to collaboratively challenge the performance culture within the construction industry and address the imbalance in construction productivity. The full press release announcement will be published very soon!
Relevalte, LLC
Arizona-based Relevate, LLC is a management consulting company specializing in innovative time and cost-saving solutions. With several high-profile projects in commercial AEC and public infrastructure in their portfolio. Relevate. also has an office in Ireland, working with projects throughout Europe.
________________
Product Spotlight:
Maintain and Improve Efficiency with Custom Fields
With Custom Fields, teams can easily: maintain workflow and efficiency on-site, improve data estimates, and track supply chain and materials. Define your own fields by creating custom tickets that actualizes progress. Doing so creates transparency for all users to see the information in real-time, while also only requiring information to be inputted one time. Read more here.
What A Customer Is Saying About this Feature:
“Custom Fields is a great next step for teams who want to be able to stack up their planned throughput vs. work in place. In my opinion, the sky’s the limit here for project managers and superintendents to innovate within Touchplan’s planning and communication space. I am looking forward to seeing what else we can do with custom fields after project teams have started using it.” – Former Superintendent at Whiting Turner
________________
What’s New with Touchplan?
Top Stories from 2021:
This month, I’ve decided to share with you a roundup of content Touchplan has produced in 2021: from Partnerships, to Podcasts, to Client Case Studies, to Webinars, to Blog Posts, and more. Here are some content highlights of the year:
Content Highlights
[PODCAST] Voices Of Construction
Hosted by our very own Noah Baker, Voices of Construction peels back the perceptions and gets to know the passionate people behind the titles in the construction industry. Check out one of our recent episodes where Noah speaks with a Senior PM who worked on a project in Antarctica!
[CLIENT CASE STUDY] Orbiz – A Partnership to Further Construction Technology
Headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, and London, UK, ORBIZ is a specialist consulting firm that provides a broad range of performance improvement, project management and advisory services across the public and private sectors.
“We quickly realized that very few projects in Australia were using Last Planner, never mind, a digital version like Touchplan. We saw an opportunity in the local market, to firstly, educate people on the power of the Last Planner System, and using a tool like Touchplan to deploy it,” said Ross Sterland, CEO, ORBIZ.
[WEBINAR] How Combining Technology Can Help You Lead a Jobsite
In this webinar, team members from Touchplan and OpenSpace meet to discuss how using a digital twin of your jobsite and collaborative production planning tool can help you become a more impactful leader.
To read the full 2021 news roundup, check it out here!
I look forward to hearing open feedback or answering any questions you may have. Have a great January!
Best,
Jimmy Suppelsa
Touchplan Partner Newsletter | December 2021
Hello Partners!
Happy December! For those that celebrate, I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving and took some well-deserved time off. I’m personally grateful for our great Referral and Reseller Partners across the world and our amazing Touchplan partner team that supports them.
We’ve had an eventful month this November and I’m looking forward to sharing our new updates with you!
Please continue to share any comments or suggestions on what you would like to see or hear from me and the team!
Have a great December!
________________
What’s New with the Partner Program?
Whether you are accessing the Partner Portal as a Referral Partner or a Reseller Partner, there is content to help you better partner with Touchplan and your customers. If you are having trouble accessing the portal, please let us know.
[NEW TECH PARTNERSHIPS]
Oculo.ai
Oculo.ai is a leading reality capture, documentation, and collaboration platform based in the UK. We are excited to explore opportunities to make project teams more effective by combining collaborative lookahead planning with reality capture and BIM overlays. Check out our Press Release and look out for a blog post tomorrow with CEO Tom Kotecki!
ProjectSight by Trimble
We are happy to announce our new partnership with ProjectSight by Trimble, a leading project management platform designed to help field teams be more productive. Press Release and partnership announcement to come!
________________
Product Spotlight:
Align Your Master Schedule with Touchplan
Touchplan’s Master Schedule Alignment product enhancement empowers construction teams to vastly improve project performance and profitability by easily aligning their external master schedule with their daily jobsite execution plan.
What A Customer Is Saying About this Feature:
“With Touchplan connecting the two, we easily transition the CPM’s conceptual milestones from our scheduling software to set the goals for the daily planning effort. As a project progresses, we back feed the progress gathered from our look ahead plan into our scheduling software to gain insight into the overall health of the project. It’s a real game-changer.” Nathan Thompson, scheduling manager for Lee Kennedy Company. Read the full story here.
________________
What’s New with Touchplan?
The Saturday Shift
Don’t forget to subscribe to The Saturday Shift! This is a weekly newsletter dedicated to sharing news in and around construction, and content from Touchplan. Above all, this newsletter is intended to both entertain and educate you every week. Please take a moment and Subscribe to The Saturday Shift today!
Top Stories from November:
Take a look at the full November News Roundup and feel free to post, email, or share at your discretion. Here are some content highlights of the month:
Content Highlights
[WEBINAR ON-DEMAND] The Risk of Using Spreadsheets to Manage Project Planning
Yesterday, we hosted a webinar on “The Risk of Using Spreadsheets to Manage Project Planning,” which discussed risks when pull-planning or look-ahead planning and how the transition to a digital platform can minimize that risk. If you were unable to attend or would like to watch it again, you can watch it on-demand here!
[PODCAST] Voices Of Construction Ep. #9 What’s In The Code?
In case you missed it in our last newsletter, Noah Baker speaks with Nick Dimitruk founder and CEO of BitRip on a recent Voices of Construction episode. Nick and his company have created the next evolution of the QR Code connecting the digital and physical worlds of construction. Nick is extremely passionate about his company and how they are impacting the industry, and he is a former Marine Corps Harrier pilot, so he also has some fantastic stories to tell. You absolutely want to tune in.
[PODCAST] Voices Of Construction Ep. #9 Veterans In Construction
In honor of Veteran’s Day, we released a special episode of Voices of Construction. Noah chats with Partnership Touchplanner Andrew Piland (a Captain in the US Marines reserves) and Aaron Matkin (a former US Army Green Beret) and current Lean Consultant for Relevate. The two discuss their careers in the military and the comparison to working in construction. Take a listen here!
To read the full news roundup, check it out here!
As always, please don’t hesitate to share any comments or feedback for me and my team. Have a great December!
Best,
Jimmy Suppelsa
Touchplan Partner Newsletter | February 2022
Hello Partners!
We are already off and running in 2022! January proved to be a great month for Touchplan and the partnerships team. The AEC technology and consulting space is booming with new, innovative solutions with a great deal of talented people, and we are discovering new companies almost daily! Expect our referral program to expand exponentially over the next few months.
We recently welcomed a new member to our Reseller Partnerships Team, Samantha Hart! Sam will be onboarding and assisting resellers around the world and comes to Touchplan with experience in channel management and sales and we are excited to have her join the Touchplan family!
A special welcome to all our new Partners! As we continue to add Reseller Partners, Referral Partners and Technology Alliance Partners to the Touchplan Ecosystem each month, I continue to be excited about the great work we can do together to positively change the construction industry to improve project certainty!
Happy February!
________________
What’s New on the Partner Portal?
[NEW] Onboarding Material Now Available for Reseller Partners
For our Reseller Partners, we have now included an onboarding section to aid your success in selling Touchplan! With three courses offered, you should be able to answer common and valuable questions on how to get started with Touchplan, understand the appropriate responses based on the customer’s experience, and develop an understanding of Touchplan’s sales process. Our goal is to make you as successful as possible. Through our experience we know that the topics and content included in the new onboarding will assist you in becoming a Touchplan sales pro. You may access this section here, or under the “Support” menu dropdown on the portal.
Marketing Video Demonstrations
Check out Touchplan’s video overviews and demonstrations on Look-Ahead Planning, Long-Range Planning, Insights, and Ease of Use. Feel free to share these videos as you please! These videos will be found under the Marketing Tools menu dropdown, under “Videos.”
________________
What’s New with the Partner Program?
[WEBINAR ON-DEMAND] Increase Project Certainty: See Touchplan in Action
This month, we hosted our first webinar of the year, where moderator George Hunt presented a live demonstration of Touchplan, sharing insights into how our tool enhances construction project certainty by delivering approachable, progressive jobsite data and analytical solutions that transform construction into a more collaborative, transparent, and predictable process. To view the recording on demand, check it out here!
[TECH PARTNERSHIPS]
Successful Client Referral from Adam Hoots at Construction ACHE Solutions
We are regularly adding new consultants and referral partners, and all of the work we put in over the last six months is starting to show returns! One of our first Lean Coach referral partners, Adam Hoots at Construction ACHE Solutions successfully referred a client to Touchplan as a part of his Lean coaching program. His client was impressed with his delivery of an on-site LPS training session, and immediately saw the need to digitize the process. The client signed with Touchplan within 48 hours of Adam’s referral. We’re excited about what Adam will continue to do in the future, and are ecstatic to have him as a partner!
Autodesk Construction Cloud
This past month, we also released a press release about our partnership with Autodesk Construction Cloud, a portfolio of software and services that combines advanced technology and a builders network and predictive insights for construction teams. To learn more, read about how our new relationship provides contractors with easier access to project information.
[NEW COACH / CONSULTANT PARTNERSHIPS]
Builthink Consultants
We are excited to announce our newest partnership with Builthink Consultants, who assist, advise and support clients in the construction industry in order to maximize the performance of each stakeholder through their digital transformation and the application of innovative practices. Our partnership promotes Touchplan’s technology to owners, contractors, and specialty trade companies in Canada. We are excited to be partnering with Builthink and look out for the press release coming soon!
GKC Consultants
This past month, we announced our marketing partnership with GKC Consultants, an organization specializing in enterprise-wide tailor-made solutions, known for delivering world-class training, consulting & implementation services to clients. This partnership promotes Touchplan’s technology to owners, contractors, and specialty trade companies in India. Read more about our partnership here!
Project7 Consultancy
We officially released a press release with Project7 Consultancy about our new partnership, addressing the Construction Productivity Gap and our alliance for transforming global Infrastructure delivery. In addition, we sat down with Daniel Shakespeare, Principal Consultant at Project7, to learn a little more about Project 7 and the value in partnering with Touchplan. To read about it, check out the blog post here!
________________
Product Spotlight:
A New Look at Mobile Planning
Introducing one of Touchplan’s newest enhancements, Mobile Planning! Now teams can see their project plan and make updates in the field, which helps communication across the project team and keeps information from getting forgotten between the construction site and the trailer. For more information on this release, check out this blog post.
For a video demonstration of Touchplan’s Mobile Planning feature, watch it here!
________________
What’s New with Touchplan?
Top Stories from January:
This past month, Touchplan produced three blog posts, three podcasts, one webinar, and more! Take a look at some of our highlights of the month, and share with your network as you please.
Content Highlights
[BLOG POST] Some of the Best Things Work In Pairs – Touchplan & Reality Capture+
Touchplanner Andrew Piland discusses the importance of combining project planning and imagery to run a much more efficient job site, enhancing project certainty.
[PODCAST] Upping Your Game Ep. #4 FOCCCUS On Your Bottleneck
On this episode of Upping Your Game, George sits down with Clarke Ching (aka The Bottleneck Guy), an author of several books and an expert in agile and the theory of constraints, where the two discuss the basics behind the theory of constraints, the focus formula; and how to tie it all back to everyday construction work. This discussion provides some great insights that can take your construction project to the next level.
[PRESS RELEASE] Touchplan and Alberici-Flintco Complete Enterprise Agreement
This past month, Touchplan and Alberici-Flintco completed an enterprise agreement that provides the two North American construction firms and their trade partners unlimited use of Touchplan’s intuitive daily planning software. Read the full details of the agreement here!
It’s been a very productive month here at Touchplan, and we look forward to what we can achieve together with you, our partners, in 2022!
As always, please share any questions or feedback if you have them.
See you next month!
Best,
Touchplan Partner Newsletter | January 2022
Hello Partners!
Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a relaxing holiday and took some well-deserved time off. 2021 has been an eventful year, including the launch of Touchplan’s Partner Program. I am grateful for the partnerships we have been able to make and I am excited for the continuous opportunities we will create together in 2022.
As we transition into the new year, please let me know if there is anything you would like to see or hear from us going forward. Your feedback is extremely important to me and I value all ideas.
Happy January!
________________
What’s New with the Partner Program?
Whether you are accessing the Partner Portal as a Referral Partner or a Reseller Partner, there is content to help you better partner with Touchplan and your customers. If you are having trouble accessing the portal, please let us know.
A Look Back at 2021:
In just this past year, we have been able to accomplish so much. Take a look at our 2021 Roundup Video where we reached a record year of growth!
[NEW TECH PARTNERSHIPS]
Autodesk
Autodesk, a portfolio of software and services that combines advanced technology, a builders network and predictive insights for construction teams, recently partnered with Touchplan to create a new integration that allows customers to easily track and analyze real-time project health, risk and performance directly in their Autodesk dashboards! Be on the lookout for the full press release coming soon!
Topdeck.ai
Topdeck.ai uses jobsite imaging and artificial intelligence to drive data-driven decisions around logistics plans and workflows. Check out our podcast with one of Topdeck’s Vice President, Mitch Ersek!
[NEW COACH / CONSULTANT PARTNERSHIPS]
ASKM and Associates
Massachusetts-based ASKM and Associates has been a long-time informal partner and champion of Touchplan. Specializing in project-based lean, education, and organizational lean transformation, ASKM also offers virtual simulation and training.
Project7 Consultancy
UK-Based Project7 is a leading Lean transformation & leadership consultancy, and Touchplan is happy to announce our partnership with them to work together to collaboratively challenge the performance culture within the construction industry and address the imbalance in construction productivity. The full press release announcement will be published very soon!
Relevalte, LLC
Arizona-based Relevate, LLC is a management consulting company specializing in innovative time and cost-saving solutions. With several high-profile projects in commercial AEC and public infrastructure in their portfolio. Relevate. also has an office in Ireland, working with projects throughout Europe.
________________
Product Spotlight:
Maintain and Improve Efficiency with Custom Fields
With Custom Fields, teams can easily: maintain workflow and efficiency on-site, improve data estimates, and track supply chain and materials. Define your own fields by creating custom tickets that actualizes progress. Doing so creates transparency for all users to see the information in real-time, while also only requiring information to be inputted one time. Read more here.
What A Customer Is Saying About this Feature:
“Custom Fields is a great next step for teams who want to be able to stack up their planned throughput vs. work in place. In my opinion, the sky’s the limit here for project managers and superintendents to innovate within Touchplan’s planning and communication space. I am looking forward to seeing what else we can do with custom fields after project teams have started using it.” – Former Superintendent at Whiting Turner
________________
What’s New with Touchplan?
Top Stories from 2021:
This month, I’ve decided to share with you a roundup of content Touchplan has produced in 2021: from Partnerships, to Podcasts, to Client Case Studies, to Webinars, to Blog Posts, and more. Here are some content highlights of the year:
Content Highlights
[PODCAST] Voices Of Construction
Hosted by our very own Noah Baker, Voices of Construction peels back the perceptions and gets to know the passionate people behind the titles in the construction industry. Check out one of our recent episodes where Noah speaks with a Senior PM who worked on a project in Antarctica!
[CLIENT CASE STUDY] Orbiz – A Partnership to Further Construction Technology
Headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, and London, UK, ORBIZ is a specialist consulting firm that provides a broad range of performance improvement, project management and advisory services across the public and private sectors.
“We quickly realized that very few projects in Australia were using Last Planner, never mind, a digital version like Touchplan. We saw an opportunity in the local market, to firstly, educate people on the power of the Last Planner System, and using a tool like Touchplan to deploy it,” said Ross Sterland, CEO, ORBIZ.
[WEBINAR] How Combining Technology Can Help You Lead a Jobsite
In this webinar, team members from Touchplan and OpenSpace meet to discuss how using a digital twin of your jobsite and collaborative production planning tool can help you become a more impactful leader.
To read the full 2021 news roundup, check it out here!
I look forward to hearing open feedback or answering any questions you may have. Have a great January!
Best,
Jimmy Suppelsa
Touchplan Partner Newsletter | December 2021
Hello Partners!
Happy December! For those that celebrate, I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving and took some well-deserved time off. I’m personally grateful for our great Referral and Reseller Partners across the world and our amazing Touchplan partner team that supports them.
We’ve had an eventful month this November and I’m looking forward to sharing our new updates with you!
Please continue to share any comments or suggestions on what you would like to see or hear from me and the team!
Have a great December!
________________
What’s New with the Partner Program?
Whether you are accessing the Partner Portal as a Referral Partner or a Reseller Partner, there is content to help you better partner with Touchplan and your customers. If you are having trouble accessing the portal, please let us know.
[NEW TECH PARTNERSHIPS]
Oculo.ai
Oculo.ai is a leading reality capture, documentation, and collaboration platform based in the UK. We are excited to explore opportunities to make project teams more effective by combining collaborative lookahead planning with reality capture and BIM overlays. Check out our Press Release and look out for a blog post tomorrow with CEO Tom Kotecki!
ProjectSight by Trimble
We are happy to announce our new partnership with ProjectSight by Trimble, a leading project management platform designed to help field teams be more productive. Press Release and partnership announcement to come!
________________
Product Spotlight:
Align Your Master Schedule with Touchplan
Touchplan’s Master Schedule Alignment product enhancement empowers construction teams to vastly improve project performance and profitability by easily aligning their external master schedule with their daily jobsite execution plan.
What A Customer Is Saying About this Feature:
“With Touchplan connecting the two, we easily transition the CPM’s conceptual milestones from our scheduling software to set the goals for the daily planning effort. As a project progresses, we back feed the progress gathered from our look ahead plan into our scheduling software to gain insight into the overall health of the project. It’s a real game-changer.” Nathan Thompson, scheduling manager for Lee Kennedy Company. Read the full story here.
________________
What’s New with Touchplan?
The Saturday Shift
Don’t forget to subscribe to The Saturday Shift! This is a weekly newsletter dedicated to sharing news in and around construction, and content from Touchplan. Above all, this newsletter is intended to both entertain and educate you every week. Please take a moment and Subscribe to The Saturday Shift today!
Top Stories from November:
Take a look at the full November News Roundup and feel free to post, email, or share at your discretion. Here are some content highlights of the month:
Content Highlights
[WEBINAR ON-DEMAND] The Risk of Using Spreadsheets to Manage Project Planning
Yesterday, we hosted a webinar on “The Risk of Using Spreadsheets to Manage Project Planning,” which discussed risks when pull-planning or look-ahead planning and how the transition to a digital platform can minimize that risk. If you were unable to attend or would like to watch it again, you can watch it on-demand here!
[PODCAST] Voices Of Construction Ep. #9 What’s In The Code?
In case you missed it in our last newsletter, Noah Baker speaks with Nick Dimitruk founder and CEO of BitRip on a recent Voices of Construction episode. Nick and his company have created the next evolution of the QR Code connecting the digital and physical worlds of construction. Nick is extremely passionate about his company and how they are impacting the industry, and he is a former Marine Corps Harrier pilot, so he also has some fantastic stories to tell. You absolutely want to tune in.
[PODCAST] Voices Of Construction Ep. #9 Veterans In Construction
In honor of Veteran’s Day, we released a special episode of Voices of Construction. Noah chats with Partnership Touchplanner Andrew Piland (a Captain in the US Marines reserves) and Aaron Matkin (a former US Army Green Beret) and current Lean Consultant for Relevate. The two discuss their careers in the military and the comparison to working in construction. Take a listen here!
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Jimmy Suppelsa