Put collaboration and communication at the heart of project success with Kompass BMS for Surveying Teams.
As human beings, working and succeeding together is good for the soul. As Geospatial surveyors, it’s business critical.
If our teams are tight-knit, organized and united, they’re efficient and productive. But so often, communication and collaboration is where we fall down. We make mistakes. We ruffle feathers. We can fail.
We designed Kompass BMS to help surveying teams collaborate and communicate – to keep people close to project details and to each other.
The geospatial surveying industry faces unique challenges that make effective communication and collaboration essential. Think of it like this, surveying companies are like two in one: office-based teams and on-site surveyors, who often deal with poor connectivity or are deeply focused on their tasks.
With the space-dependent nature of our work, unpredictable schedules, and the complex coordination between sales, operations, and accounting, streamlined communication is crucial. Kompass BMS unifies everyone, keeping information accessible and adapting to the fast-paced world of surveying.
Work together. Get things done.
We’ve all worked on projects where things have gone wrong. Project delays. Duplicated data. Frustration with colleagues. How many times was it down to poor communication?
As surveyors ourselves, we understand the power of communication and collaboration: it makes your team more productive. It boosts efficiency and helps you make better decisions. The added bonus? Everyone feels a lot happier when they’re working well together too.
Poor communication can lead to a host of misunderstandings and hiccups in geospatial surveying. Imagine surveyors heading to the wrong site because of an address mix-up – it’s frustrating and time-consuming.
Sales, Operations, and Accounting often face challenges staying in sync, causing confusion over project quotes and invoicing. Employees can get really annoyed when their work hours are misrecorded, messing up their paychecks.
And who doesn’t hate digging through endless email chains for crucial project info? Plus, client requests and status updates can easily get lost, leading to delays.
Kompass BMS comes to the rescue by centralizing all this information, making it easily accessible, and ensuring clear, efficient communication across all teams.
Your tools for teamwork
Streamline your team’s communication and workflows so everyone can do their best work together. We’ve gathered together the tools your team needs to work as one cohesive success machine:
Shared dashboards
Put the right information in front of your team – with smart dashboards putting everyone in the picture. Status updates. Performance stats. KPIs. From project, to staffing, to financial and operational data – everything’s at your fingertips with no need to cross-reference between systems or second-guess each other.
Real-time updates
Spot trends and issues fast by accessing real-time insights and detailed reports. Track your project progress, monitor equipment, and tweak schedules knowing you have the latest information right in front of you. The best thing? So does the rest of your team.
Integrated comments
Help your team find the information they need in the comments hub, which you can filter by item and/or task. No more endless searching across your mailbox to find and forward what needs to be done: it’s all in the comments. (You can read more about this in the next section).
Task management
Kompass makes it easy to track milestones and share progress so everyone stays on track and on spec. Remember, we come from surveying ourselves, so we designed Kompass workflows, scheduling and project maps especially for our sector – and your business operations.
Because we know what is wanted, we’ve got unique features which help our industry such as GIS Backed mapping function for projects and proposals, equipment and crew scheduling, qualification tracking for staff and much more.
Improving surveyors’ everyday. Every day.
The easiest way to understand how Kompass BMS can help your surveying and Geospatial business? Hear it from the surveyors already using it.
Here are some client stories about improving project coordination and team communication and collaboration:
Untangling work in progress
One of our clients said it felt like a constant fight between accounting and operations trying to calculate work in progress. They were having real problems staying on top of what was still owed and what needed to be completed (and also staying friends).
Kompass BMS helped them reconcile exactly where they were. Now it’s easy to share information and raise invoices, knowing exactly what still needs to be paid and what still needs to be done.
Simplifying timesheets
A recent Kompass client described going through timesheets for payroll as “the bane of my life”. Going back and forth between employees to record their hours was taking up all of her time – and she was constantly fielding payroll errors.
With Kompass, it’s easy for managers and employees to record their hours and see who still needs to update them. Our client can answer queries and find the information she needs on each employee’s hours without scanning across multiple systems. Now she can get up-to-date data for payroll at the push of a button” and take the pain (and the bane) away.
Standardizing proposal estimates
A popular topic among our clients, this one. So many of them have problems generating consistent proposal estimates. There can be huge variation between quotes, depending on who worked on them. What’s more, so often information stays in people’s heads and as time passes, it gets lost.
With Kompass BMS, everyone uses the same framework for proposal estimates and quotes. With one costs structure using predefined overheads, our clients tell us their proposals are happily uniform and they know exactly where to find them on the system.
Work from anywhere
As a project manager, you don’t really want to be checking in when you’re away. But sometimes you have to.
Surveyor Steve Bury took his laptop to the Sri Lankan jungle. There was intense heat. There were swooping bats. There was also a strong 4G signal. So he was able to use Kompass to sort out a few quotes and check in with his team and the work schedule for the week ahead.
Kompass’ tips for better collaboration
Here are some tips to make sure Kompass BMS works in the most efficient way for your team:
Charge up team check-ins
Put Kompass front and centre in team meetings to run through project KPIs and schedules for the week ahead. When you’re all gathered around one platform, collaboration’s a walk in the park.
Get heard in the Comments Hub
You know the saying about leading a horse to water? Encourage your teams to make the most out of Kompass (and drink the delicious water) by using the commenting tool and hub. It helps your people communicate across project details and workflows, and is a great way of helping individuals get heard.
See problems before they happen
Kompass helps you actually see bottlenecks and problems ahead. We mean literally see them – with a visual representation of projects. Even starting as early as our onboarding process! Show your team how that works and they’ll never look back.
‘Just check Kompass’. Then lead the way.
With less friction, chasing for updates and looking for information in the wrong places you’ll have the headspace to make decisions and drive your business forward.
Helping your people communicate and collaborate will improve productivity and make projects run smoother. You’ll boost confidence in your projects, and in each other.
Talk to us about connecting your team and streamlining your workflows for better collaboration.
