Paper w78-1996-253.content virtual teams, project management processes and the construction industry.

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Author	Guss, Connie L.
Abstract	ABSTRACT: Process is the “action of going through, a progressive forward movement from one point to another, with the goal of reaching an end point ” 1. Project managers in the construction industry tend to regard process as the completion of separate technical tasks to reach an end. What project managers do not ask is, what happens in the process of communicating that contributes to a successful or poor project. The answer remains elusive because project managers expend energy finding better management tools and techniques, not communication processes to help expose and overcome limitations and inefficiencies of projects. Some tools provide a means to examine overall project success, but typically discrete time phases are examined in projects. Deming’s teachings are clear in that improvement in the quality of projects demand improvements in processes. One of the key process improvements that the construction industry needs to make is the area of communication to facilitate the transfer of knowledge between teams and projects. In the future, the industry will find it more difficult to rely on tacit knowledge (on the job know-how) of organizations or individuals in virtual environments. Global trends to outsource work and downsize employee pools combined with the widespread
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Subject Keyword	Project Management Process Construction Industry Separate Technical Task Progressive Forward Movement Discrete Time Phase Tacit Knowledge Overall Project Success Construction Industry Job Know-how Paper W78-1996-253 Management Tool End Point Poor Project Project Manager Virtual Environment Key Process Improvement Content Virtual Team Employee Pool
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