TY  - CONF
TI  - The Dual Nature of Complexity in Construction Management–Call for a Renewed Debate
C1  - Edmonton, Canada
C3  - Proc. 30th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC)
SP  - 552
EP  - 563
PY  - 2022
DO  - 10.24928/2022/0160
AU  - Kalsaas, Bo Terje 
AU  - Bølviken, Trond 
AU  - Skaar, John 
AD  - Professor Emeritus, Dr Ing., Faculty of Engineering and Science, University of Agder, N-4846  Grimstad, Norway, bo.t.kalsaas@uia.no, orcid.org/0000-0003-4383- 1683 
AD  - Professor, Faculty of Engineering and Science, Department of Engineering Sciences, University of Agder,  N-4846 Grimstad, Norway, trond.bolviken@outlook.com, orcid.org/0000-0003-4834-2408 
AD  - Assistant Professor, Faculty of Engineering and Science, Department of Engineering Sciences, University  of Agder, N-4846 Grimstad, Norway, john.skaar@uia.no, orcid.org/0000-0003- 2290-2374 
AB  - The paper is conceptual, with the aim of raising a new debate on complexity and value creation within IGLC. The topic of complexity in construction projects was first raised in the Nineties before it in the early 2000s was introduced on the Lean Construction and IGLC agenda. When facing a complex problem, there are two possible strategies to pursue with reference to the Cynefin framework for complexity. The first is to transform and move the problem into the complicated or even simple domain, thereby making it manageable. The second is to handle the problem within the complex domain. The dominant approach within both Project Management and Lean is the first, namely, to emphasize efficiency, flow, standardization, best practice, planning, reliability, and control. The paper challenges this lop-sidedness by pointing out its potential reductionism and argues that we should also appreciate, exploit, and take advantage of complexity instead of just combatting it. Value creation is reliant upon both strategies and is therefore not a question of either or, but of balance and trade-offs based on an inherent dualism
KW  - Complexity
KW  - complicated
KW  - Cynefin
KW  - value creation
KW  - desig
PB  - 
T2  - Proc. 30th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC)
DA  - 2022/07/27
CY  - Edmonton, Canada
L1  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/1987/pdf
L2  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/1987
N1  - Export Date: 03 May 2024
DB  - IGLC.net
DP  - IGLC
LA  - English
ER  -