Browsing by Author "Ferrada, X."

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    A Mobile Cloud Shared Workspace to Support Lessons-Learned in Construction Companies
    (IEEE, 2014) Nuñez, D.; Neyem, A.; Sepúlveda Cárdenas, Marcos Daniel; Serpell, A.; Ferrada, X.
    Construction is a project-based industry, and for each project, companies have to cope with specific challenges. Nevertheless, most of these challenges are similar to each other and share many common elements. Thus, projects are an important source of expert know-how and organizational knowledge, but lessons learned in each one are not systematically incorporated into the design and construction phases of subsequent projects. Typically, construction companies do not have effective tools to make an appropriate transfer of this valuable knowledge for future projects. Therefore, shared workspaces could play an important role to do this by increasing communication among workers, organizing work more efficiently, reducing the coordination cost, and keeping an updated overview of the project. This paper presents a mobile cloud shared workspace to support knowledge management along each project. The platform is the result of the research and development work conducted by the authors, supported by a construction company, during the last two years.
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    Knowledge Management and the Construction Industry
    (PONTIFICIA UNIV CATOLICA CHILE, ESCUELA CONSTRUCCION CIVIL, 2009) Ferrada, X.; Serpell, A.
    Every day, companies generate new knowledge about their products, their customers and their processes, but in general this knowledge is lost because there are no appropriate mechanisms to capture, store and share this knowledge. Because of that, knowledge management appears as an approach that gives to these organizations a systematic and structured process for managing their knowledge and experience. For the construction industry, highly intensive in knowledge, this approach can be a very effective tool for increasing productivity and performance in their projects. Thus, the proper management of this resource becomes vital, especially in the current environment characterized by high competitiveness. This discipline has been implemented in various parts of the world for several years, but has not yet been widely disseminated in Chile. To help disseminate the main concepts of this approach and its implications for the construction industry, this article presents a summary of the state of the art, which includes a review of the theoretical aspects of the discipline and its relationship and impact in the construction industry.