Advanced Integrative Practice: A Road Map for Ultra-Collaborative Project Delivery

Construction design planningEngineering News-Record presents a complimentary on-demand webinar designed to provide a roadmap for arriving at a high-performance building team capable of the collaboration and innovation necessary to compete.

“Help has arrived for building teams that are itching to collaborate using conventional project delivery models—and contracts—rather than risk-and-reward-sharing integrated project delivery,” Engineering News-Record says on it website.

Speakers in the webinar are contributors to a new e-book titled “Advanced Integrated Practice: Create a Culture of Deep Collaboration,” published recently by the Alliance for Construction Excellence.

Speakers will describe all of the features, principles and practices necessary to implement AIP on projects.  They will lay out the somewhat intimidating changes in corporate culture required to fully implement AIP.  For this, they will offer techniques to use to immediately to manage scope, cost, schedule, quality and safety.  They will also present tools to prepare for enhanced performance.

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Webinar Features Enhanced Analytics with New Predictive Review

iCONNECT-XERAiCONECT Development LLC will present a complimentary webinar on Thursday, Nov. 13, at 1 p.m. EST to discuss iCONECT-XERA’s new Predictive Review.

Featuring enhanced advanced analytics, including Predictive Review, the latest version of iCONECT-XERA® continues the focus on workflow simplicity. iCONECT-XERA will support multiple defensible predictive review workflows, automating tedious tasks and helping ensure no critical steps are missed.

Presenters will highlight enhancements to the analytics features and benefits of iCONECT-XERA, including:

• How to simplify the review process by applying predictive coding without requiring subject matter experts to identify training documents (seeds).
• Best practices that reduce review time by utilizing SmartSample®, which automates and expedites the identification of sample training documents, allowing projects to commence with minimal project management effort and considerably reducing the number of iterations.
• Ways to leverage the iVIEW® Data Visualizer to easily understand charts and graphs that provide extensive metrics, such as Precision and Recall, through the life of the project.
• Techniques to set and achieve the various goals of your review using the latest in predictive review technology.

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Securities Litigation Monitoring Webinar

Banking - investment - securitiesA webinar hosted by Financial Recovery Technologies, LLC (FRT), emphasized that institutions have a strong fiduciary duty to actively track securities litigation.

The webinar is now available for on-demand viewing.

A panel comprised of past and present legal representatives from several leading U.S. pension funds discussed how institutions have a strong fiduciary duty to actively track securities litigation, in the U.S. and across the globe. The expert panelists shared their funds’ experiences in being active participants in securities litigation.

The discussion also addressed how funds should assess damages in order to make informed decisions about becoming active, what funds should consider before becoming active, and what impact being an active participant may have on an institution.

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Water and Energy Issues From National and Federal Perspectives

Energy - windmills and waterThe Center for Climate and Energy Solutions has posted a complimentary webinar designed to help utility managers address issues across the water-energy nexus.

In the webinar, Dr. Craig Zamuda from the Department of Energy (DOE) presents key findings from DOE’s recently released water/energy nexus report, attempting to distill some of the key issues and risks of which water and electric utilities should be aware.

Dr. Kristen Averyt, Associate Director for Science for the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and Director of the Western Water Assessment at the University of Colorado, presents her research regarding water-energy challenges that exist currently and are on the horizon.

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Managing Contract Performance: Beyond the ‘Sign and File’

Contract and penRevitas presents a complimentary webinar on effective contract management.

Getting the final signatures and filing the contract has always been viewed as the end of the contract management process. But the reality is that true contract management really begins at that point, Revitas says on its website.

For this webinar Revitas teams up with IACCM to explore why effective management of the ongoing life of a contract is essential to corporate success and strategic growth, and why the old “sign and file” mentality could be detrimental to your business.

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Analyzing the New $60 Billion Contract Opportunity

RegulationBloomberg Government has posted a free webinar on dealing with OASIS multiple-award contracts (MACs), expected to become the largest professional services program in the federal government.

In late May, the General Services Administration (GSA) announced the final awardees on their long-awaited OASIS contracts. OASIS offers opportunities worth $60 billion in task orders during the next decade, but with significant uncertainty in the market, Bloomberg Government says.

Bloomberg Government, in partnership with the Coalition for Government Procurement, presents this free webinar that previews the structure, scope and competitive landscape on OASIS.

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How to Develop HIPAA-HITECH Policies & Procedures

ComplianceClearwater Compliance will present a free webinar on the current requirements of the HIPAA Security Final Rule for documentation and Policies and Procedures as well as how to actually design and develop security and privacy policies and procedures.

The webinar will be Thursday, Nov. 20, at 11 a.m. Central time.

Any HIPAA audit or investigations are sure to include close review of privacy and security policies and procedures.  This webinar is designed to teach how to get them in place and operational quickly, Clearwater Compliance said on its website.

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Changing the Way Energy Is Produced, Transferred, and Consumed

Smart gridAs a part of its Digital Energy Technology Webcast Series, National Instruments has posted a complimentary webinar on what’s wrong with the embedded systems design process for the smart grid.

On its website, the company says the webinar shows how NI R&D teams are eliminating the most important bottlenecks in the development process. It also shows how to apply new tools and technologies from NI to tackle these challenges head on.

Presenters are Owen Golden—Vice President, Global Energy Segment, NI; Brian MacCleery—Principal Product Manager for Clean Energy, NI; and Dr. James Truchard—President, CEO, and Cofounder, NI.

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