Probability and Statistics Requirement for New Hires Memorandum

Hi, my field is civil engineering please make sure what you write is about my field.

You are working for ?ešení International, a 14,000 person consulting organization. You work in a 600-person division of the organization that provides client services in your field. That is, all of the types of professional work products your field produces are marketed to ?ešení clients as a consulting service.  Your manager has asked you to write a memorandum to be provided to your division leaders. This memorandum will make a case that increasing the number of employees in the division proficient in statistics and probability will improve provided services and increase profitability. You will recommend that this be accomplished by making data literacy a requirement for all new hires.  The leaders he has asked you to address the memorandum to are Vivian Bonady, Vice President of [your field]; Amaka Nwamdi, senior manager of [your field]; and Ellis Richards, senior manager of [your field]. You will also copy it to your boss, Coleman Hawkins. You are to assume that these leaders are senior professionals in your field with the knowledge that entails. Specifically, Mr. Hawkins is requesting that the division require and verify probability and statistics proficiency for all new hires in the division.  He has tasked you with accomplishing this by:

Highlighting how statistics and probability are used in the services your division provides to clients. To support your argument, this part of the document will summarize aspects of the services your division provides in which statistics and probability are applied and for what purpose each is used. Note: In this section, I expect you to use the research you did for assignment IDL 1.  However, as you are writing to a different audience for a different purpose, you will use it differently.  If you feel your research from IDL 1 is inadequate for this assignment, you may add additional sources.

Documenting the importance to division success of having all employees engaged in data analytics (analyzing data using probability and statistics for increased profitability and meeting division goals). For this part of the work, he is providing you with a documentLinks to an external site. summarizing external research data provided by a Rešitel partner, Deloitte, to support this case. He wants you to review this data for: Relevance: Is the data Deloitte collected relevant to ?ešení? Are the participants from whom Deloitte collected the data similar enough to ?ešení to suggest their findings would be applicable to ?ešení? You will include what the data indicates, the source of the data provided, the size and reliability of the study, and how that data source aligns or not with ?ešení as an organization.   How does it support the claim you are making? How the data provided can support your argument that more data literate/probability and statistics proficient employees will make the division more profitable. 

After reviewing the data you will use it to make the case that your division will be more profitable if more employees are able to engage in data analytics (that is applying probability and statistics knowledge.) You will recommend that the organization accomplish this by making data literacy requirement for all new hires in the division.

Please note:Some of you will work in organizations with coworkers with diverse professional skills, all making a specific contribution to producing a product. This assignment is NOT structured for that type of organization. For example, you will notpresent this as an engineer working in a manufacturing facility. You will not present this as a cybersecurity expert working within a financial institution.

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provides an example you can refer to for length, level of detail, language, and final appearance. The purpose of the example document is different, so, copying the document and changing some words will not work. Use all headings as shown.

Your document will have the following elements:

Memorandum Header.  Use the header and header information on the provided template until you get to the “Re” (regarding) line which is what the document is about and is the same as a title. Compose this line to specifically say what your memorandum is about as succinctly as possible.

Introduction. As with any professional document, the beginning of the document needs to provide readers with an overview of why it is important to them and what it will address. State what is important to the audience when it comes to agreeing to your request. Include a thesis statement, that presents the main idea of the document and why it is being presented.  State that you will support this in two ways – 1) the foundational importance of  probability and statistics the work of the [your field] division; and 2) how probability and statistics proficiency of employees contribute to organizational success.

Probability and Statistics Use in [Your Field] Division Services. Using the understanding of probability and statistics in your field you developed in assignment IDL 1, revise your communication of this material to support the arguments you are making to executives. To assist you with this, remember the roles of executives within the organization as described in your reading. Be sure you explain these in terms of their priorities. In-text citations are required in this section.

The Importance of Probability and Statistics Literacy for Our Division’s Operational Success.  In this section, you will present your argument as a cohesive well-written case.  You will incorporate the data from  Analytics and AI-driven enterprises thrive in the age of with: The culture catalystLinks to an external site. as evidence. At least one in-text citation is required in this section; a minimum of two in-text citations are required if you complete the extra credit.  Extra Credit Option: If you complete the extra credit option detailed below, it will be part of this section. 

Conclusion. In this section, reverse the order of your introduction content, maintain your meaning but use different words. Be sure to end with a statement of what you accomplished and how by providing this memorandum.

MEMORANDUM
TO:
Vivian Bonady, Vice President of [Your Field] Division
Amaka Nwamdi, Senior Manager, [Your Field] Division
Ellis Richards, Senior Manager, [Your Field] Division
CC:
Coleman Hawkins, Manager, [Your Field] Division
FROM:
[Your Name], [Your Field] Consultant
DATE:
[Assignment Due Date]
RE:
[Title]
Introduction
Probability and Statistics Use in [Your Field] Division Services.
The Importance of Probability and Statistics Literacy for [Your Field] Division’s
Operational Success
Conclusion
References
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MEMORANDUM
TO:
Fiay Basak, Vice President, Architectural Division
Anozie Nwaike, Senior Manager, Architectural Division
Elizabeth Rice, Senior Manager, Architectural Division
CC:
John Coltrane, BIM Manager, Architectural Division
FROM:
Sheila Ryan, Architectural Consultant
DATE:
June 1, 2022
RE:
BIM Qualification for New Hires, Proposal
Introduction
Building information modeling (BIM) has been an increasingly important part of our business
since its development in the 1970s. The implementation of international BIM standards in
January 2019 shifted this from a helpful tool to an essential tool for the services we provide and
our ability to evaluate our productivity and effectiveness. For this reason, it is no longer
sufficient to have only select staff members proficient in the integration and application of this
tool. In this memorandum, we propose that all future new hires be proficient in the tools and
technologies required to complete their work within our BIM system. We will demonstrate the
essential nature of these skills to our ability to provide client services and optimize our division’s
financial performance.
Building Information Modeling Use in Architectural Division Services
BIM is an essential tool for the Architectural Division’s ability to provide high-quality services
to our clients. This tool enables more sophisticated evaluation and coordination of designs than
possible through human coordination of projects alone. While we use this tool throughout the
entire project lifecycle, below, I highlight the three applications that have contributed the most to
improving the designs we provide to our clients. These three uses are performance analysis,
conflict detection, and cost estimates.
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Performance analysis. We use BIM-generated digital models and project site-specific
environmental data to simulate building heat gain, daylighting effectiveness, wind
resistance, and heat loss. By completing this process, we optimize building systems
during the design phase to create projects that are both cost-effective for owners and
comfortable for occupants (Autodesk, 2016).
Conflict Detection. As architects, we are responsible for detecting cross-disciplinary
design conflicts while developing construction documents. BIM models allow the
incorporation of all project disciplines into one 3-D model to identify and eliminate
conflicts. Completing this review during the documentation process enables us to avoid
construction phase changes and the associated costs (Young, Jones, Bernstein, and
Gudgel, 2009).
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Project cost estimates. During the creation of project documents, the BIM system
generates a cost estimate using our material specifications and digital building model.
By doing this, we can easily consider material alternatives’ impacts on project costs
(Young, Jones, Bernstein, and Gudgel, 2009). Thus, showing our clients that a
contractor can build our design within the established construction budget.
As with many similarly sized architectural practices, our use of these systems falls short of the
full implementation needed to maximize profitability. The division uses BIM well in design but
uses it less effectively in other phases of the work (Baker et al., 2020) due mainly to a lack of
expertise in the workforce. This gap is something a new hiring policy will help eliminate.
The Importance of BIM Proficiency for Our Division’s Operational Success
To enable our division to fully understand the business value of hiring BIM proficient
employees, our partner, McGraw Hill Construction, provided us with the research findings from
a study that documents how BIM systems support other architectural practices’ efficiency and
productivity. They obtained the data with a survey of 2,228 construction industry firms in North
America. The survey participants included 598 architectural firms, constituting 27% of the
survey. The confidence interval for the architecture results is 95%, and the margin of error is 5%
indicating a high level of reliability of the findings. While McGraw Hill did not identify the size
of the firms represented in the study, our division’s substantial workforce means we have the
potential for significant benefit (Young et al., 2009) through operational improvements. A more
recent McKinsey report suggests that the technology disruptions that have increased the
profitability of other industries are finally reaching the construction industry, where it will
increase productivity and profit (Bartlett et al., 2019).
McGraw Hill believes architecture is the construction industry discipline with the highest
potential business benefit from BIM. Their study found that the primary business benefits emerge
from reducing the need to redo work because of a better understanding of design intent
by all project disciplines and the client, increased productivity in project documentation, and
better coordination of project documentation with other disciplines. 80% of architects using BIM
identified increased communication and understanding through 3-D modeling with the highest
potential immediate return on investment. Almost as important, 74% of architects found
improved personnel productivity a significant business benefit of BIM in architecture. However,
most notably to our request, 73% of architects using BIM indicated that there would be
increased value if more internal staff had BIM skills, with 59% of them responding that this was
important for entry-level hires. Several additional findings suggest the importance of making
this change now. First, when all staff members are proficient in BIM use, only five percent of
firms had a negative cash flow on their BIM system compared with 33%, where staff
proficiency is limited. More positively, when staff BIM proficiency is ubiquitous in the
organization, 87% of architecture practices have a positive return on their BIM investment, with
20% having over 100% return. Only 38% of firms with low levels of employees’ BIM
proficiency had positive returns on their systems, with only 4% of firms at over 100% (Young et
al., 2009). Finally, the 2020 AIA Firm Survey Report documents limited BIM adoption outside
of the design phase. This lack of adoption points to significant competitive opportunities to
increase our efficiency and profit by implementing BIM on project tasks where other firms have
not yet adopted it. These tasks include (Baker et al., 2020):
• Scheduling, where only 3% of firms are using BIM,
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• Cost estimating, where only 25% of firms are using BIM, and
• Building performance analysis, where only 26% of firms use BIM.
The data presented suggest that having a workforce in our division proficient in BIM as soon as
possible will increase our profit and give us a competitive advantage over other architectural
groups that are not yet using BIM to its maximum business benefit.
Conclusion
This memorandum supports our request to change the division job descriptions and hiring
processes. It describes the extensive use of BIM in documenting our decisions and designs
through many phases of our work. Additionally, it shows the importance of this tool in
increasing the business efficiency and productivity of the division, making us more
profitable. This document provides you with evidence to support making therequested
change to add BIM proficiency to the new hire requirements for the division.
References
Autodesk (2016). The definitive guide to growing your architecture firm with BIM.
Baker, K., Mentz, J. Riskus, J. & Russo, M. (2020). The business of architecture 2020. American
Institute of Architects. https://content.aia.org/sites/default/files/202011/2020_Firm_Survey_Report.pdf
Bartlett, K., Blanco, J., Rockhill, D. & Strube, G. (2019, September). Breaking the mold: The
construction players of the future. Voices. https://www.mckinsey.com/businessfunctions/operations/our-insights/breaking-the-mold-the-construction-players-of-thefuture
Young, N. W., Jones, S. A., Bernstein, H. M, & Gudget, J.E. (2009). The business value of BIM:
Getting building information modeling to the bottom line.
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