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Systems Integration in Construction: An Open‐Ended Challenge for Project Organising
Systems integration methods aim to keep focus on the project outcomes or ends. This chapter argues that an outcome‐focused approach to systems integration has distinctive features in construction project organising for the three reasons that construction projects are: interventions, evolving, and heterogeneous. Systems integration did not originate in construction, but was developed through the work of the Ramo‐Wooldridge Corporation on the post–Second World War Atlas missile project. The chapter considers the questions raised by the origins and development of systems integration, where an early framing as technical coordination raises questions about the separation of organisation and technology, and early theorising raises questions about the temporal nature of systems integration processes and the role of cooperation in achieving collaboration. The question of systems integration is of significant importance in construction with increasingly open‐ended and complex interdependencies across project boundaries.
Systems Integration in Construction: An Open‐Ended Challenge for Project Organising
Systems integration methods aim to keep focus on the project outcomes or ends. This chapter argues that an outcome‐focused approach to systems integration has distinctive features in construction project organising for the three reasons that construction projects are: interventions, evolving, and heterogeneous. Systems integration did not originate in construction, but was developed through the work of the Ramo‐Wooldridge Corporation on the post–Second World War Atlas missile project. The chapter considers the questions raised by the origins and development of systems integration, where an early framing as technical coordination raises questions about the separation of organisation and technology, and early theorising raises questions about the temporal nature of systems integration processes and the role of cooperation in achieving collaboration. The question of systems integration is of significant importance in construction with increasingly open‐ended and complex interdependencies across project boundaries.
Systems Integration in Construction: An Open‐Ended Challenge for Project Organising
Addyman, Simon (editor) / Smyth, Hedley (editor) / Whyte, Jennifer (author) / Davies, Andrew (author)
Construction Project Organising ; 33-49
2023-04-17
17 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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