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In plant construction business engineering has an outstanding influence on project success. Thereby, a plant is usually provided by a general contractor as turnkey solution. However, to win these projects, the general contractor is depending on external engineering service providers. The reasons are e.g. missing expertise in non-core-competence activities, lack of staff or too high costs of internal...
Organizational ambidexterity, defined as the simultaneously pursuit of both exploitation and exploration activities, is essential for organizations' survival, thrive and mature. However, the building of this capability is still ambiguous in prior literatures. This paper draws on the organizational learning theories, presents how two types of learning (i.e. strategic learning and business learning)...
This paper defines a new domain for collaborative systems and technologies research: inter-organizational lean-interactive systems engineering. It departs from the problems pertaining to large-scale, technically demanding one-off construction projects, such as in our case studies, the building of specialized offshore service vessels. The requirements are unique, as are the explicit ambitions to be...
IKEA is the largest furniture retailer in the world. Their critical success factor is that IKEA can seamlessly integrate and optimize end-to-end supply chain to maximize customer value, eventually build their dominate position in entire value chain. This article summarizes and analyzes IKEA's successful practices of value chain management. Hopefully it can be a good reference or provide strategic...
Today most projects fail to deliver on time for various reasons. Reasons could be scope creep, unclear requirements, lack of right resources/budget etc. For project success it is essential to get buy-in from all stakeholders involved directly or indirectly. Different stakeholders are involved at different phases of a project. Though they are involved later, we still need to take their inputs at project...
ABC cost function model is established to calculate the reasonable and lowest cost of construction engineering, by using the idea of Activity-Based Costing (ABC) method that "resources consumed by activities and the products use up activities”. And then, the actual costs are calculated by combining with the accounting records and the calculation method of traditional cost. Now we get the actual...
This paper, based on the theory of sustainable development, discusses the fact that construction industry management must be conducted under the guidance of sustainable theory in the current situation of socio-economic development. Construction industry should change management concept in the aspects of project management, technology innovation management, construction materials management, project...
The contractor lacks of identification ability of risks in construction contracts, which result in loopholes and risks that could be avoid in the signing and implementation process of the instruction contract. Due to lack of identification and prevention of these risks, lead to the losses of the contractors in the project construction courses. To the contractor, the significant risk is the owner's...
Brand relation has, with the evolution of brand theory, already become the essence of brand. But long-term influenced by "Physical" view, people research brand theories and ways by way of the relation of brand-customer. With the advance of network economy, thinking drawback of physical view-based brand relation theory has limited enterprise brand practices. This paper makes use of ecologic...
This paper first examined the present situation on the global energy and the building energy consumption in China, then discussed the importance of building energy efficiency (abbr. BEE). Used for reference the certificate-rating system of BEE in abroad, the authors proposed to set up the similar system in building marketplace in China. Countered the information dispersive status of BEE, the authors...
Work on the construction site is known to be inefficient due to workers spending much time waiting for materials, transporting materials and from frequent interruptions of tasks. Studies on the construction site typically use statistical measures to analyse the sampled data about work and such measures, while very useful, can overlook important features of the data. In this paper we apply a previously...
The construction industry has been facing a paradigm shift to (i) increase; productivity, efficiency, infrastructure value, quality and sustainability, (ii) reduce; lifecycle costs, lead times and duplications, via effective collaboration and communication of stakeholders in construction projects. Digital construction is a political initiative to address low productivity in the sector. This seeks...
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