The cost of information technology project failures or poor performance is unacceptably high due, in part, to a lack of knowledge sharing from project to project. Insufficient knowledge sharing leads to intellectual capital loss, rework, skills deterioration, and repeated mistakes that increase project costs leading to failure. Knowledge exists at both the organizational and project levels; env...

Drawing on a 19-month ethnographic study, this essay explores how rural young people weave digital-media-generated source materials into their identity work, particularly as they navigate the politics of visibility’s master narrative event: ‘‘coming out.’’ More so than in urban scenes where a critical mass of LGBTQ visibility is taken for granted, these stories resonate with the complex negotia...

A significant amount of rework in construction is caused by client last-minute changes and their inability to acquire a realistic appreciation of the product and from the 2-D drawings at the design development process. This paper introduces a computer system that enables a user to construct a 3D design model efficiently using object models stored in element libraries. The system allows the user...

Quality is one of the important aspects of all projects. The level of success of construction projects greatly depends on the quality performance. The Pakistan construction sector is facing quality related issues, which lead to ineffective and inefficient projects in terms of cost of overrun, delays and excessive rework. This research is carried out to scrutinize the factors, that have triumphe...

Documents are used extensively by professionals in their execution of their own work and to share information with others. Professionals use and manage their documents in ways that are woven into their work activities and leave most of the context unsaid because the documents are understood as belonging to a certain ongoing activity. Contrary to this, organisations have a strong interest in sto...