scholarly journals Best Value Solution Designed in a Developing Country

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dean Kashiwagi ◽  
Jacob Kashiwagi ◽  
Abraham Kashiwagi ◽  
Kenneth Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Developing Country ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Proactive Behavior ◽  
Deductive Logic ◽  
Best Value ◽  
Directed System ◽  
And Control ◽  
Use Of Expertise

For the last two years, researchers have been working with parties in Malaysia to implement best value practices. After two years of research work, the effort has many lessons learned. Lessons learned include a combination of factors that make the best value approach difficult in a developing country such as Malaysia. The different strata of economic levels give the upper levels (owners) a greater perceived ability to control the supply chain even though they may lack the expertise. This causes owners to attempt to deliver construction by controlling the vendors, both professionals and contractors. This increases the difficulty moving from a price based or owner directed system to a best value environment, which releases control to experts. The authors use deductive logic models which show decision making, direction, and control negatively impact accountability, proactive behavior, and the use of expertise. The two-year research program results in addressing the issue of how a buyer in a developing country can utilize the expertise of experts, and how the expert can change their function to get a controlling owner to use their expertise. The paradigm shift needs to take place among the elite and the visionary, before the overall environment can make the change. The product of this research project is to meet the requirements of a visionary group of quantity surveyors in Malaysia.

scholarly journals Use of Best Value Process for Inspection and Preventive Maintenance of Pumping Stations

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 195
Author(s):  
Jannie Koster-Robaard
Keyword(s):  
Preventive Maintenance ◽  
Professional Services ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Performance Information ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Water Board ◽  
Best Value ◽  
Pumping Stations ◽  
Procurement System ◽  
And Control

The water board Velt en Vecht is a Best Value (BV) client who used the Performance Information Procurement System (PIPS) process to select professional services in 2012. The client had a procurement mission of integrity, transparency, objectivity, and non-discrimination that aligned them with the BV PIPS system. With a strategic plan of leadership instead of management and control, the water board is an example of a visionary owner that can be successful with BV PIPS. Lessons learned from the water board implementation of PIPS are that BV PIPS is a change of paradigm, even for a visionary owner. Both the owner who selects and the contractors who compete for the award must learn the new paradigm of minimized decision making, proactive planning, and risk management.

scholarly journals The Source of Degradation of the Construction Industry Performance

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dean Kashiwagi ◽  
Jacob Kashiwagi ◽  
Jake Smithwick ◽  
Isaac Kashiwagi ◽  
Abraham Kashiwagi
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Repeated Testing ◽  
Project Risk ◽  
Potential Accuracy ◽  
The Past ◽  
Deductive Logic ◽  
Best Value ◽  
Industry Performance ◽  
And Control

The construction industry performance has been analyzed for the past 20 years. There has been no simple answer to the source of the construction industry problems. In 1991, the Construction Industry Structure (CIS) was formulated, and identified that the price based environment was more inefficient than the best value environment. Over the past 18 years, the analysis of the CIS has led to the hypothesis that the price based sector is inefficient because the buyer controls it. The hypothesis has been tested through case studies, and test results show that the owner is the biggest source of project risk and deviations. The dominant information was formed through repeated testing by moving the control to the vendor, and documenting all sources of project deviation. The studies have shown that the use of decision making, management, direction and control of the contractor by the owner increases the project risk. Two longitudinal studies are used to confirm the potential accuracy of the deductive logic. Key words: contractor control, owner releases control, contractor defined scope.

scholarly journals Implementation at Hanze University of Applied Sciences

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 240
Author(s):  
Antoinette Bos
Keyword(s):  
Applied Sciences ◽  
Risk Management ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Main Thrust ◽  
Best Value ◽  
University Of Applied Sciences ◽  
It Project ◽  
The U.S

Best Value PIPS has become popular in the Netherlands and at the Hanze UAS. Hanze UAS started its first BV PIPS project in June 2011 and is currently performing seven projects. The Hanze UAS encountered major difficulties in the clarification period with an IT project. Therefore the main thrust of this paper is to explore the clarification and risk management phase. For this purpose the author uses an IT project as a case study. The conclusion is that it is in the clarification phase that the major paradigm shift takes place. BV practitioners must understand that the clarification phase is critical in the changing of the paradigm. The client and the vendor must continually implement the new BV concepts and lessons learned. This case study is similar to projects in the U.S., where the culture of the organization is the biggest challenge to the BV system.

scholarly journals The Research Model that Revolutionized the Dutch Construction Industry

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 133
Author(s):  
Dean Kashiwagi ◽  
Jacob Kashiwagi ◽  
Abraham Kashiwagi ◽  
Kenneth Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Measurement Theory ◽  
Research Model ◽  
Information Measurement ◽  
Leadership Model ◽  
Best Value ◽  
Traditional Research ◽  
Procurement System ◽  
And Control ◽  
Use Of Expertise

The Dutch construction industry is making a change from an owner controlled to a contractor-controlled environment. It is a movement from a top down culture (management, direction and control) to a bottom up culture (alignment and use of expertise). Owner decision making, management, direction and control are being replaced with a leadership model, which aligns and utilizes the expertise of the contractors. The changes in the Dutch construction industry validate a non-traditional research model, which used deductive logic and case studies involving dominant information and visionary industry participants, non-traditional concepts of Information Measurement Theory (IMT), the Construction Industry Structure (CIS) model and the best value Performance Information Procurement System (PIPS).

Lessons Learned from Organizing a Biophysics Symposium in a Developing Country

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Solís ◽  
José Á. Rodríguez-Corrales ◽  
Francisco J. Alvarado
Keyword(s):  
Developing Country ◽  
Lessons Learned

scholarly journals Chikungunya outbreak in Al-Hudaydah, Yemen, 2011: Epidemiological characterization and key lessons learned for early detection and control

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mamunur Rahman Malik ◽  
Abraham Mnzava ◽  
Emad Mohareb ◽  
Alia Zayed ◽  
Abdulhakeem Al Kohlani ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Early Detection ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
And Control ◽  
Epidemiological Characterization

Reflections on a Scholarly Career in Sport and Exercise Psychology: The Influence of Significant Others on the Psychosocial Well-Being of Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Thelma S. Horn
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Significant Others ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The North ◽  
Senior Scholar ◽  
Sport And Exercise ◽  
American Society

This paper is based on a Senior Scholar presentation delivered at the 2020 annual meeting of the North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity. The paper begins with a summary of the research work completed by the author and coinvestigators in regard to the influences that significant others (parents, peers, and coaches) exert on the psychosocial well-being of individuals in sport and physical activity. In each of these three areas, illustrative research studies are summarized in a predominantly chronological order with a commentary at the end of each section that identifies unanswered questions and suggests future research directions. In the second section, four particular lessons learned by the author over the course of a scholarly career are identified and explained.

scholarly journals Aggressors and resilient youths in Medellin, Colombia: the need for a paradigm shift in order to overcome violence

2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (11) ◽  
pp. 2208-2216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis F. Duque ◽  
Nilton E. Montoya ◽  
Alexandra Restrepo
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Cross Section ◽  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Prevention And Control ◽  
High Ratio ◽  
Multi Stage ◽  
Sexually Risky ◽  
And Control ◽  
Resilient Behavior

The objective of this study was to estimate the ratio of resilient youth and compare this to youth with aggressive behavior, and to youth who also exhibit sexually risky behavior and drug use. A cross-section study of a representative sample of people between aged between 12 and 60 who are residents of Medellin, Colombia, and its metropolitan area (N = 4,654) was employed using probabilistic multi-stage sampling. Youth between 14 and 26 years old were selected for the present analysis (n = 1,780). The proportion of resilient youth is 22.9%, of aggressors is 11.3%, and that of youth with other risky conduct is 65.8%. The high ratio of resilient youth calls for a reorientation of public policy toward prevention and control of violence, prioritizing the promotion of resilient behavior instead of continuing with tertiary prevention actions.

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