TY  - CONF
TI  - Supporting Organizational Design Towards Lean With the Viable System Model
C1  - Oslo, Norway
C3  - 22nd Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
SP  - 73
EP  - 83
PY  - 2014
AU  - Schmidt, Michael T.
AU  - Elezi, Fatos
AU  - Tommelein, Iris D.
AU  - Berghede, Klas
AU  - Lindemann, Udo
AD  - Graduate Student, University of California, Berkeley, USA and Technische Universität München, Germany, michaeltschmidt@mytum.de
AD  - M. Sc., Institute for Product Development, Technische Universität München, Germany,  fatos.elezi@pe.mw.tum.de 
AD  - Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, and Director of the Project  Production Systems Laboratory (p2sl.berkeley.edu), 215-A McLaughlin Hall, Univ. of California,  Berkeley, CA 94720-1712, USA, Phone +1 (510) 643-8678, tommelein@ce.berkeley.edu 
AD  - Production Manager, The Boldt Company, 455 Market Street, 5th Floor, CA 94105, San Francisco,  klas.berghede@boldt.com
AD  - Professor, Institute for Product Development, Technische Universität München, Germany,  lindemann@pe.mw.tum.de 
ED  - Kalsaas, Bo Terje
ED  - Koskela, Lauri
ED  - Saurin, Tarcisio Abreu
AB  - This paper provides an approach to support design of organizational control structures in lean construction projects. Abstracting and analyzing lean practices from the perspective of Management Cybernetics and the Viable System Model (ViSM) in particular was found to elevate understanding of the former in previous research. It seems promising to further investigate how applying the ViSM can aid the implementation of lean thinking in environments that face cultural- and other hurdles to sustainably establishing lean practices. To take further steps in this direction of research we present an approach for identification and design of organizational control structures in the context of lean practices utilizing the ViSM. Then, we present an exemplary application of said approach, showcasing supportive design of control structures within a pull-based material supply system at a hospital construction project in San Francisco, California. The example shows that the ViSM and its underlying principles of Management Cybernetics can largely support establishing control structures in lean context. Responsibility assignments and information channels could be transparently included in the organization structure and their assumed contribution to sustainable lean implementation could initially be verified. 
KW  - Management Cybernetics
KW  - Viable System Model
KW  - Lean Construction
KW  - lean control  mechanisms
KW  - lean implementation
PB  - 
T2  - 22nd Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
DA  - 2014/06/25
CY  - Oslo, Norway
L1  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/1062/pdf
L2  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/1062
N1  - Export Date: 24 April 2024
DB  - IGLC.net
DP  - IGLC
LA  - English
ER  -