Innovation in Small Construction Firms (Spon Research)

Innovation in Small Construction Firms promotes the benefits of innovation, and stimulate innovation capability within and between small and medium sized (SMEs) construction firms in an effort to bring in a new 'can innovate, should innovate, want to innovate' culture to the construction industry. Presenting new theoretical and practical insights and models grounded in descriptive case studies, the issues addressed include:  what is the motivation to innovate?  what is appropriate innovation?  how can small construction firms create, manage and exploit innovation? what practice-based models, tools and techniques support the capability of small construction firms to innovate well? how does this fit in the context of leading international work in construction innovation? Findings are contextualised in the broader literature to make them of relevance to policy makers, practitioners and researchers interested in small, project-based firms in general.

BARRETT, Peter

Lee, Angela

Sexton, Martin

Business & Money

Routledge

From the book’s Foreword by Trevor Mole, Managing Director, Property Tectonics; President of the European Association of Building Surveyors and Construction Experts: 
‘Shu-Ling and Martin have built on their research work and that of others to produce an understandable and readable insight into innovation in small professional service firms. They have successfully unravelled the complex behavioural and organisational forces taking place and created a framework to help practitioners understand the issues and to fashion the right environment in which to foster innovation and deliver economic value.’ Small professional practices in the built environment are crucial to the success and long-term viability of the design, construction and property industries. This research-based book addresses the urgent need to better understand the nature and process of innovation in these important firms. The authors offer an analysis of both why and how innovation is a key competitive factor for small professional practices in the built environment. As these practices are located in different business environments and behave in different ways to other types of industry firms, the context-specific methodology to design, implement and assess innovation in small professional practices presented in this book will appeal to researchers and practitioners in surveying and design. Innovation in Small Professional Practices in the Built Environment makes a significant contribution to an underdeveloped area of innovation by offering new theoretical and practical insights and models grounded in results from a 22-month case study of a small professional practice.

Innovation in Small Professional Practices in the Built Environment (Innovation in the Built Environment)

Engineering & Transportation

Lu, Shu-Ling

Engineering

Wiley/Blackwell

Managing Change in Construction Projects: a knowledge-basedapproach offers a new perspective on construction projectchange by viewing the process of change management as aknowledge-intensive activity, where team members bring their tacitand explicit knowledge into the situation; share, create andcapture this collective knowledge for future re-use in similarsituations. Through this knowledge-based approach, construction teams cansuccessfully resolve and learn from change events, leading to anoverall improved performance of the industry.The book will make a significant contribution to ourunderstanding of construction project change by offering newtheoretical and practical insights and models grounded in resultsof case studies conducted within two collaborative constructionproject team settings.By demonstrating how the social construction of knowledge worksin construction settings, the authors challenge the prevailingchange management solutions based on ‘hard’ ITapproaches. They put forward a balanced view that incorporates bothIT–based and socially constructed approaches to effectivemanagement of construction project change.helps construction managers to improve and learn through theprocess of construction project changepresents new theoretical models and offers practicalguidelinesfirst research-based book to directly address project changefrom a knowledge-based perspectivedraws on detailed studies with construction companies,including Ballast Construction and Kier Constructionencourages a move from the information driven, processintegrated approach to a knowledge-based view

Managing Change in Construction Projects: A Knowledge-Based Approach

Senaratne, Sepani

We Love You is a unique compilation of sonic artworks featuring collaborations between innovative musical originators such as Brian Eno, Derrick May, Boy George, Hugh Cornwell, Add N to X, Pet Shop Boys, and Arthur Baker with a cross-section of the most cutting-edge British contemporary artists including Tracey Emin, Marc Quinn, Gilbert &amp; George, Jake Chapman, and Angela Bulloch. It is presented in the form of a CD/book, a new format, a "futique" - a collectable piece of the future. We Love You is published in conjunction with Candy Records and contains original pieces of art by all the artists whose sonic artworks are contained on the accompanying CD. All the tracks on the compilation are previously unreleased and exclusive to We Love You. Designed by The Carpet Gypsies. "A genuinely gorgeous collection of disco-pop and literate groove music... his is the uneasy listening album you could slap on only the coolest of coffee tables." - Laura Lee Davis, Time Out "We Love You - pretentious, silly, funny, frequently better than Robbie Williams." - Matthew Collings, Tate Magazine

We Love You

Humor & Entertainment

The Ambassadors

Hitchman, Paul

Pop Culture

Booth-Clibborn

A new scheme of human rights safeguards comes into force in England and Wales in 2020 with the aim to protect people who cannot make their own decisions and whose care involves a level of restriction that may infringe their human rights. Liberty Protection Safeguards will apply from aged 16 upwards so all social workers in adult's services and many in children's services will be working with them.&nbsp;The Social Worker's Guide to Liberty Protection Safeguards ensures that social workers have a clear understanding of the new legislation and, crucially, how to apply it to their practice. Written by an experienced practitioner, the book summarises the human rights basis of LPS and takes a critical look at the contexts in which the legislation operates.&nbsp; The LPS process and the different roles that social workers will have when implementing LPS are explained.&nbsp; It analyses the potential weaknesses of the safeguards and how social workers can take a critical and reflective approach to implementing them.&nbsp; Attention is also paid to the roles of other professionals (e.g. advocates), and of the Court of Protection in regulating LPS.&nbsp;Specific topics that are likely to be particularly challenging under LPS are highlighted, including liberty and family care, fluctuating capacity, covert medication, restrictions on contact with others, and intimate relationships. This book is the first in a new series, Critical Social Work Law which will take new or complex areas of the law, explain them clearly to practitioners and demonstrate how they should be applied to social work practice. &nbsp;

The Social Worker’s Guide to Liberty Protection Safeguards

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Critical Publishing

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