Pick One Process, One Site, or One Department
One of the biggest reasons digital initiatives fail is that companies try to change everything at once. Strategically it makes sense, but there is a reason why it fails in most cases.
Real estate and construction companies are complex by nature.
Multiple sites, multiple contractors, multiple approval chains — it’s easy to get overwhelmed if you think transformation has to happen everywhere, all at once.
At Cognito Consulting, we often advise clients to pick just one to begin with.
- One critical process — like daily project reporting, invoice management.
- One site — perhaps the most active or the most problematic one, or the smallest one.
- One department — maybe commercial billing or project controls.
When you focus narrowly, you can go deep. You can design a better solution or roadmap, implement it faster, realize its benefit (ROI) and refine it without organizational friction. It will also mean win or fail fast and scale or iterate.
And most importantly, you can create a working success story. One site’s success becomes the model for others. One department’s improvement becomes the benchmark for scaling.
Transformation is not about flipping a switch. It’s about lighting one lamp — and then using that flame to light many others.