Improving the Performance of the Construction Industry through Technological Innovation and Advanced Management Practices

拟议的研究是基于这样一个前提，即通过适当地采用和实施先进技术，可以改善建造业的整体表现。目前，建筑业在这两个方面都受到阻碍：找出改进机会的能力；以及适当评估和实施解决方案的能力。这导致技术采用和实施活动花费的时间比必要的更长，并阻碍了整个行业的性能改进。 这项研究的总体目标是改善建筑业的绩效，研究的目标包括：1)绩效衡量--拟议的研究将扩展信息管理实践、知识管理实践和创新管理实践领域的绩效基准框架；2)技术采用和实施--拟议的研究将探索创新成功的预测措施，以及与绩效挂钩的能力；以及3)信息和通信技术--拟议的研究将结合虚拟现实捕捉和互动协作的现有技术。 这项研究采用了一系列技术开发和实施活动，以及管理实践定义和评估活动。因此，这项研究将提供一种能力来证明实践和绩效之间的关系，同时专注于建筑业中不太成熟的实践。这是建立在最近完成的安全管理和创新管理组织做法的成熟度衡量工作的基础上的。最终，这项研究将加深对该行业技术创新过程的理解，并通过衡量实践并将其与绩效联系起来，产生可供评估和监测的方法。

The research proposed is based on the premise that the overall performance of the construction industry can be improved through the appropriate adoption and implementation of advanced technologies. Currently, the construction industry is hampered in both: its ability to identify opportunities for improvement; and its capacity to properly assess and implement solutions. This results in technology adoption and implementation activities that take longer than necessary and hinder performance improvements across the industry. With the overall goal to improve the performance of the construction industry, the objectives of the research fall into the areas of: 1) performance measurement - the proposed research will extend a framework for benchmarking performance in areas of information management practices, knowledge management practices, and innovation management practices; 2) technology adoption and implementation - the proposed research will explore predictive measures of success in innovation, as well as an ability to link to performance; and 3) information and communication technology - the proposed research will combine existing technology for virtual reality capture and interactive collaboration. The research with employ a series of technology development and implementation activities, as well as management practice definition and assessment activities. As a result, the research will provide an ability to demonstrate the relationship between practices and performance while focusing on practices that are less mature within the construction industry. This builds on recently completed work for maturity measures of organizational practices for safety management and innovation management. Ultimately, the research will extend a deeper understanding of the technological innovation process for the industry and result in approaches that are available for assessment and monitoring by measuring practices and relating this to performance.