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Changes and change management in construction and IT projects
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Ingår i: Automation in Construction. - : Elsevier BV. - 0926-5805. ; 20:7, s. 767-775
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- Modelling for change management in construction might benefit from experiences from other industries. This study compares reasons for change as well as change practices in interorganizational relationships in construction and information technology. Sixteen contractual relationships have been studied through a questionnaire and interview survey conducted among both clients and providers. Project-type relations are contrasted with more continuous service support contracts. More than their providers, clients tend to ascribe high change frequencies to an increase in technical understanding during projects. Early provider participation is associated with lower change frequencies, while the strength of incentives is less influential. The ease of transforming changes into new projects varies between technologies. Irreversibility is important, as well as relations between pre-investigations and the successive revealing of initial conditions, together with the life-cycle of formal and informal communication. Findings can be used for transfer of agile practices. © 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Construction contractors as service innovators
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Ingår i: Building Research and Information. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1466-4321 .- 0961-3218. ; 38:3, s. 235-246
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- As in the manufacturing and services industries, a mix of technological and non-technological innovation should be expected in construction. This study ascertains the relative importance of a set of internal and external factors for the intensity of technological and non-technological innovation among construction contracting firms. Seventeen types of contractor activities, associated with three levels of service content, are identified and a characteristics-based theory of service innovation with four innovation trajectories (material, informational, methodological, contractual or relational) is applied. Data collected from a questionnaire survey of 44 of the 50 largest construction contractors in Sweden indicate that 30 contractors had carried out research and development during 2003-2005 and that 11 had made at least one innovation new to the country. The lowest level of innovation intensity was mostly linked to the methodological trajectory (28 contractors), while the material trajectory dominated innovation 'new to the country' (eight contractors). Analysing data per activity where research and development or innovation had been reported shows that collaboration with another type of contractor is associated with a higher intensity of innovation, regardless of trajectory. The level of employee education is significant for relational innovation. The consequences for policies in firms and central government are identified.
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Facilities 25 years
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Ingår i: Facilities. - 0263-2772. ; 25:11/12, s. 418-
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Från idé till affär: Framgångsrika innovationsprocesser inom samhällsbyggandet
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- The purpose has been to identify conditions essential for innovative ideas to be developed into commercial products, services and processes within the field of the built environment. The analysis of projects awarded innovation grants within the Bygginnovationen programme has been intended to emphasize the possibilities for firms to select strategies for initiating and exploiting innovative ideas.Innovation and planning grants for 87 projects through Bygginnovationen were listed and analysed. A workshop with construction sector experts made an in-depth study of documentation related to five representative projects. Results were used for designing a questionnaire sent to 76 grant recipients. Analysis of the 62 responses included reasons for projects not having been commercialized at the time of the survey and also recipient views on the advice given by the Bygginnovationen Business Council.Applicant firms were found to belong to a broad range of industries. Firms that had successfully commercialized their ideas were slightly younger and had slightly more employees than those who had not (yet) been able to reach the market. One fifth of all supported project ideas had been commercialized, and for most of the remaining projects, development was still going on. The greatest obstacle to commercialization appears to be complexity of the project idea, followed by insufficient market size. Advice given by the Bygginnovationen Business Council was often seen by applicants as helpful, and a frequent consequence was that projects were strengthened by supplementary competences.
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Innovation in construction
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Ingår i: The Handbook of Innovation and Services: A Multi-disciplinary Perspective, eds F. Gallouj and F. Djellal. - 9781847205049 ; , s. 743-767
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