Return on Investment White Paper - Cadgroup

ROI with Autodesk Revitexperienced a 40 percent drop in productivity and it took them 11 long months to crawlback to parity. In contrast, trained users experienced a 55 percent drop in productivity(they were off-site during training) but climbed back to parity in only four months. What’smore, two years later, while the untrained users were only 125 percent more productive onAutoCAD than they had been on their old systems, the trained users were a whopping 177percent more productive (Figure 8).Productivity200%Could not use system before trainingCould use system but received training181%165%150%125%100%Manual Productivity50%60%40%Could use system but untrained0%0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24No. of Months After System PurchasedSource: UK AutoCAD User Survey, 1993Figure 8. Productivity analysis, trained vs. untrained users (solid and shortdashedlines). Also including data from originally untrained but experiencedusers (middle, long-dashed line) who received update training. Those trained onthe system immediately are more productive on the system indefinitely. Selftaughtusers are never as productive, even after receiving training.The data indicates that not only is there an initial difference between trained and untrainedusers, but that that difference actually increases over time. What’s more, untrained usersnever actually catch up in terms of the productivity of the trained user. Trained usersremain 50 percent more productive than untrained users. Imagine trying to compete with acompany that is 50 percent more productive than you?The survey also broke the users down by: how many were not able to use the systembefore training, how many could use the system but still received training, and how manycould use the system but remained untrained (Figure 8). The results showed that the mostproductive users were the ones who were trained from the get-go (top, solid line) even ifthey didn’t know how to use the system beforehand. The ones who got training at somepoint after their initial purchase (bottom, short-dashed line) did well but never quite caughtwww.autodesk.com/revit 10