The Construction Financial Management Association (CFMA) is offering two free webinars, April 17 and April 24, on the results of the CFMA/ABC IT Survey, which includes hard-to-find information on technology use in the construction industry.

The webinars are designed to give attendees a comprehensive look at the industry’s use of technology and teach them how to use the IT Survey as a meaningful and analytical research tool to influence and drive IT policies, procedures, and decisions.

Topics covered during the April 17 webinar at 3 p.m. (ET), include:

• An introduction to and background on the IT Survey, including analysis and demographics of participants
• IT organization (staffing, outsourcing of various functions, development of personnel, structured training)
• Policies and procedures (planning , e-mail, help desk, Internet use, storage, BYOD, social media)
• Managing IT for greater impact on performance

Topics covered during the second webinar, April 24 at 3 p.m. (ET), include:

• An introduction and background on the IT Survey, including analysis and demographics of participants
• Infrastructure (Virtualization, data centers, disaster planning, storage, e-mail)
• Budgeting (IT costs, recovery and allocation, software purchase, ROI)
• Software (ERP, ECM, virtualized desktops, field data capture, BIM)
• Managing IT for greater impact on performance

Participants are not required to attend the first webinar to attend the second webinar. The survey can be purchased here: http://www.cfma.org/store.cfm, and ABC members should enter the code ABCITSavings to take advantage of the CFMA member price of $79.