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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... stage from the perspective of actual take-up and use in the industry. What's more, we are still coming to grips with what “knowledge management” can and cannot do for us. Background. To the outside world, the media is meticulous in ...
... stage from the perspective of actual take-up and use in the industry. What's more, we are still coming to grips with what “knowledge management” can and cannot do for us. Background. To the outside world, the media is meticulous in ...
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... stages of knowledge management from knowledge acquisition, extraction, storage, sharing, and updating are demonstrated, followed by a description as to how these are used to construct a knowledge map. We learn that knowledge maps are an ...
... stages of knowledge management from knowledge acquisition, extraction, storage, sharing, and updating are demonstrated, followed by a description as to how these are used to construct a knowledge map. We learn that knowledge maps are an ...
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... 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 normally retrospectively ...
... 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 normally retrospectively ...
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... stage, but not continually, represents an over-investment in that knowledge. It is more efficient to promote one (or more) individuals to specialise in selected areas, and to communicate that specialisation to the other members of the ...
... stage, but not continually, represents an over-investment in that knowledge. It is more efficient to promote one (or more) individuals to specialise in selected areas, and to communicate that specialisation to the other members of the ...
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... stage in a project's life, but it will help prevent the knowledge from being forgotten, as could happen if the feedback process were deferred until the completion of the project. Guided keywords will assist database searching by ...
... stage in a project's life, but it will help prevent the knowledge from being forgotten, as could happen if the feedback process were deferred until the completion of the project. Guided keywords will assist database searching by ...
Contents
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| 18 | |
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 |
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