Knowledge Management in the Construction Industry: A Socio-Technical Perspective: A Socio-Technical PerspectiveKazi, Abdul Samad Knowledge Management in the Construction Industry: A Socio-Technical Perspective presents a portfolio of concepts, methods, models, and tools supported by real life case studies from various corners of the globe providing insights into the management of knowledge in the construction industry. Untangling the hype from the reality, practical means of implementing knowledge management in the construction industry through various mechanisms and tools are demonstrated. For the practitioner, it provides practical insights and experiences from real life cases, for the researcher and academic, it provides current and state-of-the-art undertakings in this emerging area for the construction industry. |
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... specific topic). In terms of knowledge conversion, the most popular model in use today is the SECI model (Nonaka & Takeuchi, 1995; Skyrme, 1997; Nonaka et al., 2001). It advocates socialisation as a mechanism for tacit-tacit ...
... specific users and projects. The need for and technical aspects of the configurable environments approach is presented in the context of an illustrative case study of construction space management. We learn that as information ...
... specific practices and system elements were identified for further development and implementation as part of the knowledge management system. A key conclusion from this research is that it is the producers and consumers of knowledge who ...
... specific source, or (iii) not disseminate the knowledge or make it available to all in the wider organisation who would benefit from it. Martin (2000) reports on the problems of inefficient knowledge management for a company and how ...
... specific, derived from the holder's experiences and insights. Explicit knowledge is that which is codified in written or some other “hard” form (Nonaka & Takeuchi, 1995). It is explicit knowledge that can be transferred between people ...
Contents
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Chapter III Managing the External Provision of Knowledge Management Services for Projects | 34 |
Smart Construction | 53 |
A SocioTechnical Perspective | 67 |
A Community of Practice Perspective | 90 |
A UK Construction Company Case Study | 112 |
Learning from Experience | 129 |
From the SocioTechnical Perspective 19621966 to Knowledge Management What Have We Learned? | 203 |
Emerging Models and Solutions | 224 |
A Holistic Strategic Approach to the Management of Knowledge | 225 |
An Exploration on the CoProduction of Project Needs and Requirements by ClientSpecialist Groups | 251 |
Chapter XV Decision Support Systems and their Application in Construction | 276 |
Chapter XVI A Knowledge Management Portal System for Construction Projects Using Knowledge Map | 299 |
Chapter XVII An Integrative Knowledge Management System for EnvironmentalConscious Construction | 322 |
A Vision for Future Project Information Technologies | 343 |
Facilitating Organisational Learning within the Construction Industry | 130 |
Chapter IX Knowledge Management in Higher Education and Professional Development in the Construction Industry | 150 |
Chapter X Empirical Investigation of Organisational Learning Ability as a Performance Driver in Construction | 166 |
Chapter XI Evaluating an Organisations Learning Culture Using Learning Histories | 185 |
About the Authors | 363 |
Index | 373 |