Prioritizing barriers to successful business process re‐engineering (BPR) efforts in Saudi Arabian construction industry

Abdul-Hadi, Nader Husni; Alqahtani, Saleh A.

doi:10.1080/0144619042000301375

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“…Some researchers have voiced their concerns about the continued declining performance of contractors in the construction industry (Abdul-Hadi, Al-Sudairi, & Alqahtani, 2005). This failure to perform may be a consequence of opportunistic tendencies, which characterize business contracts in a principal-agent relationship.…”

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Perceived Project Value, Opportunistic Behavior, Interorganizational Cooperation, and Contractor Performance

Ntayi

Rooks

Eyaa

et al. 2010

Journal of African Business

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Predictors of contractor performance have attracted the attention of researchers in the developed world. However, research from sub-Saharan Africa to corroborate these findings has remained sparse. What exists is speculative and at best anecdotal. Using data from construction firms in Uganda, this study finds that commitment to the project, perceived value of the project, interorganizational cooperation, and opportunistic behavior are significant predictors of contractor performance. This has both policy and managerial implications, which we present in this paper.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 98%

Perceived Project Value, Opportunistic Behavior, Interorganizational Cooperation, and Contractor Performance

Ntayi

Rooks

Eyaa

et al. 2010

Journal of African Business

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“…Such as a study conducted recently by Alshehri [21] revealed that disputes concerning construction contracts, procurement and design change orders are considered to be one of the key causes of project conflict in architectural projects in Saudi Arabia. Abdul-Hadi et al [22] had earlier identified these inefficiencies of the Saudi construction industry as a cause for concern and called for the Saudi construction industry to re-engineer itself to achieve simpler coordination and integration. Since BIM simulates the construction project in a virtual environment.…”

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The Barriers and Strategies of Implementing Bim in Saudi Arabia

Alhumayn

Chinyio

2017

WIT Transactions on the Built Environment

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Fundamentally a technology-driven concept, Building Information Modelling (BIM) fosters a more reliable and timely exchange of information among project stakeholders about all the different phases of a construction project. It has the potential to significantly impact the Saudi construction industry by dealing with issues pertaining to estimating, scheduling and design coordination. The advantages of implementing BIM include the visual coordination of the building systems such as Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing systems and it also identifies the possible conflicts between these. By detecting the conflicts, problems can be resolved before actual construction which in turn saves project time and cost. This article presents the preliminary results of an ongoing research. One of the objectives of this research is studying the barriers of BIM adoption and strategies for its greater implementation in Saudi Arabia. Primary data was collected by means of a questionnaire survey, where 342 people in total were approached to complete the questionnaire. Data was collected in full from 224 persons in Saudi Arabia signifying the response rate of 65%. The data was analysed by means of descriptive statistics. The results show that, the adoption of BIM has seen a slow but gradual upward trend within Saudi Arabia in recent years. However, the lack of knowledge of the BIM adoption process, lack of support from managers to accept changing current practices, and lack of practical standards and guidelines as well as the lack of attention by policy makers and the government were identified as some of the barriers to the adoption of BIM in Saudi Arabia. Nevertheless, a majority of the respondents are convinced that BIM delivers the benefits of savings in time and significant improvement in the final quality of buildings. The strategies suggested for implementing BIM fully in Saudi Arabia include an enabling legislation and a supportive regulatory environment, financial assistance by the government, more education for the actors involved and benchmarking against other countries.

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“…Also, Abdul-Hadi et al (2005) presented 29 barriers, with their influence on the success of BPR initiatives.…”

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An examination of the influences of desired organisational capabilities in the preparation stage of business process re-engineering projects

Ostadi

Aghdasi

Alibabaei

2011

International Journal of Production Research

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To implement successful business process re-engineering (BPR) initiatives, several capabilities have been identified. Required capabilities before and during implementing of BPR projects have been introduced for achieving success. The literature has suggested various approaches to assessing readiness and implementation of BPR projects. However, lack of a practical measurement method is evident. Therefore, in this paper, a practical measurement tool for requiring capabilities is proposed to enhance the chances for successful implementation of BPR by mapping these capabilities on steps of BPR projects. In addition, the relations between these capabilities and BPR success barriers are identified. This tool includes a generic questionnaire that can be helpful for self-assessment of readiness based on the desired organisational capabilities (DOCs) in BPR efforts. In the questionnaire proposed in this paper, various indicators have been identified for assessing readiness in BPR implementation. These indicators include 21 categories based on DOCs. This report indicates the importance of each DOC in various steps and the influence of DOCs on different barriers of success. We report the results of a survey based on the questionnaire, which was conducted in four Iranian organisations. Based on the results gathered from this examination, the study offers several guidelines for increasing the points of success and decreasing the points of failure and, hence, increasing the rate of success before and during implementation.

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Prioritizing barriers to successful business process re‐engineering (BPR) efforts in Saudi Arabian construction industry

Cited by 36 publications

References 16 publications

Perceived Project Value, Opportunistic Behavior, Interorganizational Cooperation, and Contractor Performance

Perceived Project Value, Opportunistic Behavior, Interorganizational Cooperation, and Contractor Performance

The Barriers and Strategies of Implementing Bim in Saudi Arabia

An examination of the influences of desired organisational capabilities in the preparation stage of business process re-engineering projects

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