Boddy Presentation to Balfour Beatty Salford University 13/01/2010 + Background Broad research areas within the work-package: Collaborative design and construction Visual management Building information modelling Project management Lean construction Promise based management Web services and Service oriented architecture (SOA) Growing interest in identifying synergies between BIM and lean construction principles + Concept A production management system that: Uses BIM as the visual platform and lean construction principles as the process enabler Integrates project related information using web services. To be used by construction team including the key supply chain stakeholders End user interface is the key Various user interfaces to assist in processes such as
or retranchment Portfolio analysis industries or markets in which form competes throuch its produscts and business units Parenting strategy the manner in which management coordinates activities and transfers resources and cultivates capabilities among product lines and business units. Views a corporation in terms of resources and capabilities that can be used to build business unit value as well as generate synergies across business units o Generates corporate strategy by focusing on the core competencies of the parent corporation and the value created between the parent and its businesses o Developing a corporate parening strategy: Examine each business unit in terms of its strategic factors Examine each business unit in terms of areas in which performance can be improved Analyse how well the paren corporation fits with the business unit
Considerable high-tech growth has occurred around universities and research centers in San Jose and San Diego, California; Boston; Philadelphia; and Washington, D.C. "Some of the largest pharmaceutical companies in Europe have relocated in U.S. cities to gain access to American research," says Kah. A recent example is Novartis, which recently moved its worldwide research headquarters to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to take advantage of the synergies of being part of one of the most vibrant biotech clusters in the world. "High-tech firms prefer cities that have a critical mass," says Dennis Donovan, principal with Wadley-Donovan Group, a site location firm. "This mass must have a compatible talent pool, universities or institutes with related R&D, and comparable companies and suppliers." Other universities are making names for themselves in homeland security. "Several universities, including Texas A&M University
resources of even the best combination of firms. Alliances between vendors and companies and client to client are becoming critical to competitive success. A successful alliance can give you access to markets, technology, and other resources. It can give you flexibility to handle change and hedge risks, but only if you manage it effectively. Mergers and Acquistions The key to growth by acquisitions is takinga advantages of synergies: making 2+2=5. Growth through acquisition is a quicker, cheaper, and far less risky proposition than the tried and true methods of expanded 5 marketing and sales efforts. Further, acquisition offers a myriad of other advantages such as easier financing and instant economies of scale. The competitive advantages are, ranging from catching one's competition off
heating in Ireland. The long-term operating concessions of French district heating systems might hamper their development. In the Czech Republic, much district heating is produced in extraction turbines at the expense of more valuable electricity. Romanian district heating use was reduced by one-half by cheap gas. In general, it should be advantageous that one actor controls the whole district-heating value chain from source to consumption in order to utilise synergies and to avoid economic risks with contracts between the separate entities of a fragmented value chain. Like for other long-term large-scale infrastructure investments, public involvement may be necessary for district heating development. Through cooperation among various well-established players in the district heating industry, knowledge, products and services can be transferred to evolving district heating markets, which
Sustainability Information and Internal Business Analysis Two key components of internal business analysis are: 1) External Environment - Analysis of the external environment focuses on issues such as product, labour, and capital markets and regulatory structures. These issues, in turn, relate in part to the risks and opportunities associated with management of the economic, environmental, and social aspects of the business. Overlaps and synergies exist between the conventional indicators used for analysis of the external environment and those used for measuring economic, environmental, and social performance. For example, social indicators related to the composition and status of the workforce may be used to highlight opportunities for expanding the firm’s intellectual capital. 2) Competitive advantage– is built through cost leadership and product/service
5.1 Theoretical work of integrating Lean Construction and Building Information Modelling LC and BIM are different initiatives, but both have proven to have a profound impact on the construction processes. "The Interaction of Lean and Building Information Modelling in Construction" compiled by Sacks, Koskela, Dave and Owen (2009) is a thorough, theoretical and practical literature review of the understanding of the synergies between LC and BIM. This white paper juxtaposes 16 lean heuristics/principles with the 8 BIM functionalities/uses to determine if the use of BIM in construction processes promotes leaner processes. Altogether, 56 interactions were discovered between LC and BIM, including positive and negative relations. For most of these interactions the evidence has 59 been found and presented
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