Prioritizing BIM Capabilities of an Organization: An Interpretive Structural Modeling Analysis

Ahuja, Ritu; Sawhney, Anil; Arif, Mohammed

doi:10.1016/j.proeng.2017.07.166

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“…Although this innovation has not always been common practice within the AEC sector, 5 in recent times, its success in the sector has been acknowledged in some studies. Successes within the AEC sector include promoting environmental sustainability, [6][7][8] reduction in construction waste and time, 9 strategies for resource control, 9 and continuous improvement in the overall efficiency of the processes. 10 The main objective of lean in construction is to meet the needs of the client and to simultaneously improve the products and processes of development within the AEC sector.…”

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Advancing Lean Implementation for Improving Sustainability in Sub‐Saharan Africa: A Literature Review

Emuze

Allu

2018

Sustainability: The Journal of Record

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This article aims to synthesize relevant literature underpinning the implementation of lean principles in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) sector. The focus is on the challenges and benefits to promoting lean application and sustainability efforts within the AEC sector in the sub-Saharan African region. The discourse centers on a descriptive analysis of the selected articles that specifically relate to the challenges and prospects of lean implementation in the AEC sector within the last six years. Findings from the literature review suggest that the prospects of lean applications by far surpass the challenging barriers. The limitations are mainly due to lack of appropriate knowledge on the specific application techniques for the construction tasks/processes. Furthermore, findings suggest that the implementation of lean principles promotes environmental sustainability, allows for refining construction processes to suit peculiarities, and encourages continuous improvements of processes, services, products, and stakeholders' development. Specific contextual adaptations to address regional-based requirements for lean implementation are recommended.

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Section: Theoretical Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

Advancing Lean Implementation for Improving Sustainability in Sub‐Saharan Africa: A Literature Review

Emuze

Allu

2018

Sustainability: The Journal of Record

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“…In the area of supply chain and logistics, studies have focused on supplier relationship [9] and selection [44], food SCM [24,25], e-procurement [72], and reverse logistics [14,62,84], among others. In the field of information technology studies are conducted in the areas of building information modeling [21,93], cloud computing [37,52], e-commerce security [19], m-commerce [96], enterprise resource planning [45], supply chain management [94], and social networking sites [95]. Energy domain studies were in the area of bio-diesel [68], smart grid technologies [60], and solar energy [79].…”

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confidence: 99%

SmartISM: Implementation and Assessment of Interpretive Structural Modeling

Ahmad

Qahmash

2021

Sustainability

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Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) is a technique to establish the interrelationships between elements of interest in a specific domain through experts’ knowledge of the context of the elements. This technique has been applied in numerous domains and the list continues to grow due to its simplistic concept, while sustainability has taken the lead. The partially automated or manual application of this technique has been prone to errors as witnessed in the literature due to a series of mathematical steps of higher-order computing complexity. Therefore, this work proposes to develop an end-to-end graphical software, SmartISM, to implement ISM technique and MICMAC (Matrice d’Impacts Croisés Multiplication Appliquée á un Classement (cross-impact matrix multiplication applied to classification)), generally applied along with ISM to classify variables. Further, a scoping review has been conducted to study the applications of ISM in the previous studies using Denyer and Tranfield’s (2009) framework and newly developed SmartISM. For the development of SmartISM, Microsoft Excel software has been used, and relevant algorithms and VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) functions have been illustrated. For the transitivity calculation the Warshall algorithm has been used and a new algorithm reduced conical matrix has been introduced to remove edges while retaining the reachability of variables and structure of digraph in the final model. The scoping review results demonstrate 21 different domains such as sustainability, supply chain and logistics, information technology, energy, human resource, marketing, and operations among others; numerous types of constructs such as enablers, barriers, critical success factors, strategies, practices, among others, and their numbers varied from 5 to 32; number of decision makers ranged between 2 to 120 with a median value of 11, and belong to academia, industry, and/or government; and usage of multiple techniques of discourse and survey for decision making and data collection. Furthermore, the SmartISM reproduced results show that only 29 out of 77 studies selected have a correct application of ISM after discounting the generalized transitivity incorporation. The outcome of this work will help in more informed applications of this technique in newer domains and utilization of SmartISM to efficiently model the interrelationships among variables.

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“…The principles of lean promote sustainable development. The pursuits of Sustainable Development (SD) through lean integration and implementation has been acknowledged in earlier studies (Ahuja et al, 2017;Allu and Emuze, 2018). Also, researchers have suggested that integrating lean principles and context to development, ensures new standards for excellence for continuous sustainable developments (Patty and Denton, 2010;Dinesh et al, 2017).…”

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Lean for sustainable development in South Africa: A case study of three universities

Allu¹

2019

Integr. J. Edu. Train.

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Lean in higher education (LHE) is pursued for the reasons of improving efficiency and effectiveness of processes in High Education (HE). This review paper focuses on LHE within the university system to propose the implementation of lean culture and management into research and practices of South Africa universities, via a descriptive case study research method. The underpinning literature suggests that although the prospects of LHE has positive impact on both academic and non-academic practices in HE, however, research has also acknowledged some challenges. These challenges include; lack of strategic planning and limited knowledge on the interpretation of the lean philosophy and implementation. Three universities were used as case studies to ascertain their areas of successes with LHE implementation. This paper contributes to the LHE discourse and offers an option for the South Africa universities to strategize for improved academic outcomes and effective administrative processes. South African has been acknowledged to lead its Sub-Saharan African region in research and thus, the integration of LHE in the universities' systems would positively impact this region and beyond. Furthermore, the paper recommends specific contextual adaptations of models tailored to meet individual institutional requirements and at the same time promote sustainable development.

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Prioritizing BIM Capabilities of an Organization: An Interpretive Structural Modeling Analysis

Cited by 29 publications

References 20 publications

Advancing Lean Implementation for Improving Sustainability in Sub‐Saharan Africa: A Literature Review

Advancing Lean Implementation for Improving Sustainability in Sub‐Saharan Africa: A Literature Review

SmartISM: Implementation and Assessment of Interpretive Structural Modeling

Lean for sustainable development in South Africa: A case study of three universities

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