AI Won’t Fix Fragmented Operations. What Will?

AI tools can help geoprofessional firms work faster, but what happens when the information they depend on remains scattered across disconnected systems?

GBA’s next Knowledge Sharing Webinar tackles that question on Thursday, December 3, at 2 p.m. Eastern Time. In “Building the Operating Model That Makes AI Actually Work,” David Gagne, President & CEO of MetaField, will examine why getting more value from AI may require firms to first rethink the operating model underneath it.

For many firms, field data lives in one tool, scheduling in another, lab information in a third, and billing somewhere else. Adding ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, or another AI solution can make individual tasks faster without solving that underlying fragmentation.

Gagne will make the case for a firmwide operating model in which daily work runs through a connected system of action and the resulting data becomes structured, accessible, and ready for AI embedded directly in the workflow. Attendees will see examples involving newly acquired offices, multiple disciplines, and connected field and lab operations.

Attendees will leave with a framework for evaluating fragmentation within their own firms and understanding what it takes to create a connected system. The webinar is free and open to GBA members and nonmembers. Attendees will earn 0.5 PDHs.

Miss the Last Knowledge Sharing Webinar?
GBA members can watch the October 29 Knowledge Sharing Webinar from Seequent, Build vs. Buy: Navigating Software Strategy in Geoprofessional Practice. Presenters examine the benefits, costs, and risks of developing software internally versus investing in established platforms.

Watch the recording in the GBA webinar library. 

Coming Next: Turn Your Geotechnical Archive Into an Advantage
On December 17 at 2 p.m. Eastern Time, Quire will present “The Competitive Advantage Hidden in Your Geotechnical Archive.” Karl Grimm, Senior Solutions Consultant at Quire, will explore how firms can make decades of completed reports and institutional knowledge easier to access and put to work, helping engineers find useful precedents faster, reduce technical risk, and improve future reports.

The GBA Knowledge Sharing Webinar events are a series of free online learning opportunities for GBA members and guests that directly connect them with our industry partners who are creating impactful technology to elevate the geoprofessions.