Collaboration environments for construction: Implementation case studies

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2008-10-01

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Erdogan, Bilge
Anumba, Chimay J.
Bouchlaghem, Dino
Nielsen, Yasemin

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Although emerging technologies offer the construction industry many opportunities for computer supported collaboration environments, the companies adopting these technologies usually fail in achieving the full benefits from their implementations. The reason for this is found to be focusing too much on the technical factors and ignoring or underestimating the factors related to change, implementation, human and organizational factors, and the roles of the management and end users. Each new information technology (IT) implementation involves some change for the organization and the employees, and is therefore a source of resistance and confusion unless special attention is paid to managing this change. This paper aims to review the related theoretical concepts and previous work on success factors for collaboration environment implementations and failure reasons for IT, and to present the current approaches adopted by construction organizations implementing collaboration environments. In order to achieve these aims, the results of an extensive literature review on general causes of failure in IT implementations are presented, and the key areas to focus on during IT design and implementation are highlighted and explained. The results of exploratory case studies are summarized to show the current IT implementation and collaborative working approaches in the United Kingdom construction industry and interpreted using a systems thinking approach. The paper then concludes with some insights into how construction organizations can improve the implementation of collaboration systems.

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Management Science and Operations Research, General Engineering, Strategy and Management, Industrial relations

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/67877

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JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT IN ENGINEERING

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https://doi.org/10.1061/(asce)0742-597x(2008)24:4(234)

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Department of Civil Engineering, Article

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B. Erdogan, C. J. Anumba, D. Bouchlaghem, and Y. Nielsen, “Collaboration environments for construction: Implementation case studies,” JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT IN ENGINEERING, pp. 234–244, 2008, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/67877.