Construction partnering & integrated teamworking [[electronic resource] /] / Gill Thomas and Mike Thomas

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910143318403321
• Autore: Thomas Gill <1950->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford, UK ; ; Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2005
• ISBN: 1-280-74864-8; 9786610748648; 0-470-76361-2; 0-470-75966-6; 1-4051-7207-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (248 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): ThomasMike <1947->
• Disciplina: 624.068; 624.0684; 624/.068/4
• Soggetti: Construction industry - Management; Teams in the workplace; Strategic alliances (Business); Partnership; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [230]-232) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The culture change to partnering and integrated teamworking -- Identifying the organisations' value criteria -- Partnering advisers and facilitators -- Internal partnering and managing change -- Selection criteria and weighting -- Selecting supplier partners -- Writing effective partnering documentation -- Evaluating client partners -- Submitting successful partnering bids -- Assessment, evaluation and award -- Developing the integrated team -- Trust -- Respect for people -- Communication -- Non-technical team roles -- Mutual objectives -- Issue resolution -- Partnering champions and the core groups -- Continuous improvement -- Benchmarking and key performance indicators -- A programme of partnering and integrated team workshops -- Initial partnering workshop -- Continuous ; improvement review -- Post project review -- Value management -- Risk management -- Lean thinking -- Cola--the cross organisational learning approach -- Implementing best value through partnering and integrated teamworking -- Sustainability -- Whole life costing -- Innovation -- Open book accounting -- Incentivisation and award -- Partnering contracts -- Involving interested parties and inducting new staff -- Avoiding the pitfalls of partnering -- Icebreakers and team building exercises.
• Sommario/riassunto: 'As long as government continues to push collaborative working and best value, partnering will be in vogue' If you are implementing partnering in your organisation and don't know where to start, this book covers everything you'll need - explaining all aspects of the partnering relationship from scratch. Construction Partnering & Integrated Teamworking provides information and instruction on the full range of topics in sufficient depth and tells you:how to do it the tools you'll need the pitfalls to avoid. With its acce