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. |
From inside the book
... phases. At the same time, they are also identifying critical “intervention points” during these phases where “social processes” are purposely induced to allow for better tacit knowledge capture and sharing. This. Book. and. Its. Contents.
... phase-by-phase approach on how to develop an intellectual capital report. Their experience demonstrates that through intellectual capital reports, shareholders are able to better understand and appreciate an organisation's hidden ...
... phase and outline a project definition model for knowledge creation. Through the case study, it is demonstrated that project definition is a complex adaptive process, and that knowledge about project purpose emerges from group ...
... phases. In Chapter 18, O'Brien, Issa, Shen, and Xie present a vision for future project information technologies in the form of configurable environments. These configurable environments combine data integration capabilities with ...
... phases of projects—at this stage the project-specific drawings are typically updated to 'as-built' status, but other design-phase documentation is frequently not. For example, the installation specification used on a project is not ...
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 |