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Created by : M NITIN SHENOY, PMP, IPMA-D, CEng MICE, Manager  | 03 13 2009 14:27:55 +0000
Industry : ConstructionFunctional Area : Project Management(Technology)
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Knowledge Management (KM) is a field which deals with knowledge identification, capturing, storing, representing, sharing and utilizing in any business process domain.

There are various KM Tools and Techniques traditionally available in Literature as well as those practically implemented in business.

The debate is on whether KM field which is gaining significant importance among all domains in making the Organization a Knowledge Centric one, does any KM efforts taken in the field of Construction Projects also?....

If so their MERITS & DEMERITS...!!!!

 
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yes one should practice this type of management, which will help the future projects as there is a whole database or repository of past projects and its insights would be very useful in tackling situations for the future projects...


By Pragya Kothari, Construction-Heavy, DLF  03 13 2009 14:52:23 +0000
 
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I want to vote for yes because knowledge management is practised. But due to its ill-management I opted for no.

Nobody can progress without learning from past's goods and bads. But knowledge management is a step ahead of that. Proper documentation of the learnings, its distribution or its availability to all is what is required to be managed.

Companies like L&T have started portal based reporting systems in which all my site data viz MOM of review meetings, internal audit findings, CAPA etc are available for all for ever. But this is limited to very few such organisations

That is why it cant be really said that knowledge management is being practised in construction.


By Vivek Singh, Project Manager, L&T  03 14 2009 03:54:38 +0000
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As far my knowledge, it is practiced in every construction organization by their own way.
By SHRIKANT MANOHAR DANKE, Project Manager, Phadnis Infrastructur Ltd  | 01 03 2011 14:58:30 +0000
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In the truest sense the answer could well have been NO.

But i choose yes to highlight some aspects of KM that are far better in the construction industry than other industries (say IT for instance).

Treat it as a sign of respect to the industry that gave us project management and non-it knowledge management in the first place.

1. almost every major construction project requires some kind of a project office that acts as the provider of templates,guidelines and master/sub schedules.The drawback with this repository is that it is offline and repetitive at times

2.Construction industry as a whole publishes journals on manpower and material costs along with price variations across the world.Imagine the benefit this delivers to the cost engineers in estimating !

3.The document deliverables in the construction industry (eng. drawings, specs and standards) are quite mature as they invite real life penalties on non-conformance.So willy nilly the knowledge around these

4.Most construction project payments are tied to work packages, necessitating the need to have specific roles (like planning/scheduling engineers) for developing and updating project schedules.

Having said that, where the industry lacks most is in using effective online repositories of communication/collaboration and information access.

In short you may say that they do some good offline KM BUT online KM is where they must have been by now


By Dhananjay Raturi, Head of the Department, XYZ  | 07 17 2009 15:05:23 +0000
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This should be used and will help the org.


By Rajan Agarwal, Program Manager, Ebix  | 06 08 2009 11:51:25 +0000
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yes i fully support the.. significance  of knowledge management  not only in constuction project rather to every domain of various project.. as it has very broad coverage area that is fully aplied to every stage for devlopment as well...


By varsha , Head/VP/GM-Quality, frac  | 06 07 2009 06:02:30 +0000
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I agree with Pragya as its important and also wise to utilise whole of the past experience to develop a future project whatever it is. Also KM is the base ofany type of managerial skill too.


By BEENA AGARWAL, Head/VP/GM-Corporate Planning/Strategy, ANADI HI TECH AGRO PVT LTD  | 04 22 2009 05:16:28 +0000
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KM efforts are infact taken in all projects to varying extent knowingly or unknowingly by the organization / team running the project.

Some of the KM efforts are :

1. Documentation and Sharing of Best Practices.

2. Lessons Learned

3. Project Completion Report itself ia a Knowledge Repository of the Project

4. Project Audit finding and analysis -  Results in Cause and Effect Analysis and Documnetation for Corrective & PReventive Actions

5. Using past project experiences and data in estimation /  work methods - thus avoiding any Reinventing Wheel Syndrome!

6. Sharing of Case Studies in Safety domain, to avoid repeatation of Dangerous Occurences, Unsafe Practices and Conditions thus eliminating Injuries and Fatalities.

KM efforts do help in Project Success and are being implemented, unknowingly, without realizing in true benefits and outcomes on long run for an organization.


By M NITIN SHENOY, PMP, IPMA-D, CEng MICE, Manager  | 03 16 2009 15:10:57 +0000
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