TY  - CONF
TI  - Competitive Capability-Building for Integrated Design Scheduling and Management
AU  - Reed, Dean
AU  - Powell, Will
AU  - Berg, Peter
AD  - Owner and Consultant, Capability-Building, Santa Cruz, CA 95060, USA, +1 650 207 3486,  dean@deansreed.com, orcid.org/0000-0002-2916-8558
AD  - Integrated Design Scheduling and Management Subject Matter Expert, DPR Construction, San Diego, CA  92122, USA, +1 858 597 7070, willpo@dpr.com, orcid.org/0000-0003-4720-4572
AD  - Project Executive, DPR Construction, Phoenix, AZ 85034, USA, +1 602 808 0500, peterb@dpr.com,  orcid.org/0000-0002-8227-2012
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/07/14
T2  - Proc. 29th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC)
C3  - Proc. 29th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC)
CY  - Lima, Peru
SP  - 572
EP  - 581
DO  - 10.24928/2021/0221
AB  - This paper explores the relevance of Takahiro Fujimoto’s theory of the role capabilitybuilding played in the emergence of the Toyota Production System to design and construction. It is the third in a series on this topic. The research question is whether Fujimoto’s explanation of how capability was built within Toyota can help project teams build better capability leading to system-level improvement. In this new paper the authors connect Fujimoto’s evolutionary perspective with the possibility that complex systems theory is a useful starting point for understanding design and construction. The authors explain Fujimoto’s theory and how they used it to evaluate building-capability for Integrated Design Scheduling and Management on several projects they reviewed retrospectively. Key findings are: 1, effective use of routines is important and a prerequisite for effectiveness; 2, routinized capability (regular patterns of doing essential things) is essential to affect change at system level; 3, entrepreneurial leadership is necessary for effective capability-building, and 4, system emergence, where there is no relationship between the content and pattern of system changes, together with routinized capability is possible although rare; 5; this is also possible, but even more rare with a second, systems level of problem solving.
KW  - Theory
KW  - capability
KW  - complexity
KW  - emergence
KW  - evolutionary
L1  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/1897/pdf
UR  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/1897
DB  - IGLC.net
LA  - English
N1  - Export date: 04 October 2026
ER  -