A Proposed Model for Assessing Organisational Culture Towards Achieving Business Objectives

Most of the traditional business performances measures are based on productivity and process criteria, which mainly focus on method of investment appraisal such as payback method, return on investment (ROI), cost-benefits analysis (CBA), net present value (NPV), internal rate of return (IRR). However, the measurement scales of business performance are not limited to those measures. One element that has strong correlation to the business performances is ‘organisational culture’. Many studies proved that one of the significant criteria for achieving desired business objectives is the right organisational culture within workplace. Basically, the measurement of organisational culture is reflecting on two distinct elements: organisational culture and business objectives. In broader perspective, an organisation is considered effective if it meets its business objectives. This paper aims to present and discuss the preliminary culture model to indicate the culture performance within organisational. The model has been developed through literature review, expert opinion and experience which is anticipated of being able to potentially measure the culture capability of organisations across industries to “successfully achieve business objectives”. The model is composed of six progressive stages of maturity that an organisation can achieve its culture performance. For each maturity stage, the model describes a set of characteristics that must be in place for the company to achieve each stage. The validity of the proposed model will be tested by a few case studies. The idea is to provide managers with a qualitative measurement tools to enable them to identify where culture improvements are required within their organisations and to indicate their readiness for achieving business objectives

A Performance Evaluation for IT/IS Implementation in Organisation: Preliminary New IT/IS Capability Evaluation (NICE) Model

Most of the traditional IT/IS performance measures are based on productivity and process, which mainly focus on method of investment appraisal. There is a need to produce alternative holistic measurement models that enable soft and hard issues to be measured qualitatively. A New IT/IS Capability Evaluation (NICE) framework has been designed to measure the capability of organisations to'successfully implement IT systems' and it is applicable across industries.The idea is to provide managers with measurement tools to enable them to identify where improvements are required within their organisations and to indicate their readiness prior to IT investment. The NICE framework investigates four organisational key elements: IT, Environment, Process and People, and is composed of six progressive stages of maturity that a company can achieve its IT/IS capabilities. For each maturity stage, the NICE framework describes a set of critical success factors that must be in place for the company to achieve each stage

The awareness of life cycle costing among architects / Nor Azlinda Mohamed Sabli...[et al.]

Life cycle costing (LCC) is a method of accessing the total cost of facility ownership and has been used in foreign countries for the last few decades. Even though it has been used widely in the foreign countries, our country still far behind as the application of the LCC is not been used wide enough. In fact of that, in order to increase the usage of LCC technique in Malaysia, each party that involved in the industry should have their own awareness to implement the technique in our industry. The implementation of LCC technique in Malaysia construction industry will lead to a greater success in the field and will brings good increasingly-competitive business environment, dwindling resources and an ever-increasing need to obtain value for money in all areas of corporate activity. It is essential to plan and monitor assets throughout their entire life cycle, from the development until the completion of the project. Therefore, the main aim of this paper is to measure the awareness of LCC among the architects since the implementation of LCC should start at the design stage. Feedbacks obtained from the questionnaire survey has shown that there are still lack of awareness among architects about LCC implementation during inception and briefing stage and this may lead into a few issues in light of the fact that LCC is one of the vital components in bringing the value for money to the construction projects. In-depth study of LCC is the crucial factor to be considered at the early stage of the project, in order to ensure the good returns and the best value for money to clients

The importance of information in the preparation of feasibility study for construction development / Sharifah Nur Aina Syed Alwee...[et al.]

The planning of a project begins with envision of ideas, concepts and targets of the proposed construction development. Once set, all aspects of planning a development must be thoroughly evaluated during the preliminary stage of the Feasibility Study (FS). Matters that are related to technical, economic and financial aspects of the proposed development must be critically appraised in the FS. Without a well prepared FS, a development project can possibly fail due to issues such as inferior building quality, poor workmanship and cost overruns. For this reason, design consultants such as the architect, engineer and quantity Surveyor must always be aware so as to understand the importance of information needed in the preparation of FS. They should appreciate that the outcomes from an excellent FS could bring many good values for the construction project. The aim of this paper is to examine the importance of information required in the preparation of a FS and to explore the understanding amongst design consultants about its significance. Feedbacks obtained from the questionnaire surveys have shown that each consultant sets different priorities and purposes in identifying the crucial of data that they gathered during the FS. Though the main aim is to enhance the feasibility in terms of cost, quality and time demanded by the client, the research suggested that the views and suggestions made by consultants should not be ignored. In-depth investigations on economic, technical and financial analysis are the crucial factors to be considered so that at the final stage, the viability of a construction development would give good return on investment and other prospective values to the Client

Development of guidance for the adoption of circular economy in construction and demolition waste management

The rise in the amount of construction and demolition waste and its negative impacts on the environment had made it become a hot issue globally. Therefore, efficient construction and demolition waste management are extremely important in the construction industry. The circular economy is introduced to shift the current linear economy practice of “take-make-consume-dispose” to “take-makeconsume-reuse and recycle” toward a more sustainable and efficient construction and demolition waste management by decrease the illegal dumping and construction and demolition waste issues. However, the concept of circular economy has still not been widely developed in current practices of waste management where many of the players in the construction industry still in the process of understanding how to adopt circular economy practices. Thus, this research aims to develop the strategy for the adoption of Circular Economy (CE) for Construction and Demolition Waste Management (CDWM). The quantitative method is applied in this research to collect data and the data is collected through a questionnaire survey. A strategy is proposed on the adoption of the circular economy principle in the construction and demolition waste sector as a reference to improve the performance of the current construction and demolition waste management system