Knowledge Maps and Management for the Construction Industry—Using Information Technology as an Example
| Autor: | Rui-Sheng Lin, 林睿陞 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 93 Construction industry is the basic industry of a country, and its products are different from other general manufacturing industry has regional and unitary characteristics. Most of the construction teams are temporary. It causes that the personal knowledge and experiences are lost with the end of a construction project. The tacit knowledge is hard to diffused and share. And the explicit knowledge of information technologies in construction industry is not transparent enough to be applied or innovated. Therefore, it’s necessary to build an effective management model to promote the competition advantages of construction industry. Knowledge management has received a great deal of attention in recent years (Kamara et al., 2002). Especially in this emphasizing Knowledge-based Economy times, which technologies and Internet are vigorously becoming mature, it appears that the knowledge management is become very important. This research will build a knowledge management model and knowledge maps of information technologies in the construction industry. According to the growing benefits and application status of the information technology, this research will find out the critical information technologies in the construction industry, and also discuss the main influence factors of these critical information technologies. This research analyzes the real cases of top hundred companies in the construction industry. The critical information technologies will be classified by the information of the replying questionnaire and the cluster analysis method, and recognized their sharing level and applying status. Then this research will find out the benefit gaps, which are worth to improve their innovation by analyzing the knowledge map of information technologies in the construction industry, and provide the government a reference. Finally this research shows that the sharing level of knowledge is lower in the construction industry. And the analysis of the questionnaires shows the systematic information technologies are the point trend in the future. There are seven benefit gaps, Supervision, Training, Decision making, Risk/uncertainty analysis, Financial analysis, Monitor & measure progress, and Forecasting in the information technology map. And from the critical information technologies, there are five technologies, Videoconferencing, Telecommuting, Enterprise Resource Planning, and Knowledge Management worth to innovate and improve in the construction industry. |
| Databáze: | Networked Digital Library of Theses & Dissertations |
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