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.
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
