State of Knowledge-based Management in Project Networks: Case in Finnish Infrastructure Construction Sector

Viivi Siuko, Jussi Myllärniemi, Pasi Hellsten

2022

Abstract

Finnish infrastructure construction sector has challenges in productivity and advancing digitalization. We suggest that these problems can be explained with inadequate knowledge-based management (KBM) practices: When information goes missing, employees must collect the information repeatedly. When organizations haven’t identified their information needs, data is collected but never used. The purpose of this research is to discover what is the priority of development to improve KBM in project network. A project network in Finnish infrastructure construction sector typically consists of project companies and public customers. This research was conducted by distributing a survey on maturity of KBM to 22 Finnish organizations in infrastructure construction. 10 of these organizations are customer organizations and 12 are project companies. The results are analyzed with a framework suggested for the maturity survey. The results show that, in the project network, customer organizations have less developed KBM practices than project companies, which is not surprising. The interesting point, however, is that the results highlight the importance of the customer organizations in information sharing in the project network. Therefore, the inadequate KBM practices of customer organizations seem to weaken the productivity of the whole project network.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Siuko V., Myllärniemi J. and Hellsten P. (2022). State of Knowledge-based Management in Project Networks: Case in Finnish Infrastructure Construction Sector. In Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K 2022) - Volume 3: KMIS; ISBN 978-989-758-614-9, SciTePress, pages 126-133. DOI: 10.5220/0011376300003335

in Bibtex Style

@conference{kmis22,
author={Viivi Siuko and Jussi Myllärniemi and Pasi Hellsten},
title={State of Knowledge-based Management in Project Networks: Case in Finnish Infrastructure Construction Sector},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K 2022) - Volume 3: KMIS},
year={2022},
pages={126-133},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011376300003335},
isbn={978-989-758-614-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K 2022) - Volume 3: KMIS
TI - State of Knowledge-based Management in Project Networks: Case in Finnish Infrastructure Construction Sector
SN - 978-989-758-614-9
AU - Siuko V.
AU - Myllärniemi J.
AU - Hellsten P.
PY - 2022
SP - 126
EP - 133
DO - 10.5220/0011376300003335
PB - SciTePress