Managing Innovation in Construction
1st Edition
Published on 1. October 2003
Book
Hardback
316 pages
978-0-7277-3002-2 (ISBN)
Description
This book investigates best practice across sectors of the economy and their transfers into the context of construction. It examines the development and diffusion of innovation to address adversarial relationships, and the fragmented processes and lack of customer focus, which still characterises much of the industry.
It explains how construction must respond to the raft of new management processes expounded throughout the last decade systematically in a bid to acheive a more appropriate approach for business innovation in construction.
It explains how construction must respond to the raft of new management processes expounded throughout the last decade systematically in a bid to acheive a more appropriate approach for business innovation in construction.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Emerald Publishing Limited
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
669 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7277-3002-2 (9780727730022)
DOI
10.1680/miic.30022
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Nature of construction: Strengths and weaknesses
Constructions response to the need for innovation
Models of innovation and innovation process
Innovation in construction
Innovation in procurement approaches and processes
Partnering: a journey to fifth generation innovation
Supply chain management as a fifth generation innovation
Culture changes as a fifth generation innovation
Culture changes as a key pre-requisite for fifth generation innovation
A greater role for subcontractors
Challenge of diffusing this type of innovation to the whole of construction
Constructions response to the need for innovation
Models of innovation and innovation process
Innovation in construction
Innovation in procurement approaches and processes
Partnering: a journey to fifth generation innovation
Supply chain management as a fifth generation innovation
Culture changes as a fifth generation innovation
Culture changes as a key pre-requisite for fifth generation innovation
A greater role for subcontractors
Challenge of diffusing this type of innovation to the whole of construction