| Description |
1 online resource (221 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- The Structure of the Book -- Introduction -- Part I What Are We Trying to Do? What's Stopping Us? How Could We Approach It Differently? -- Chapter 1 Defining the Sectors -- Chapter 2 Drivers for Change: The Government Perspective On What the Industry Needs to Do -- Chapter 3 Barriers to Change: The Industry Perspective On What the Government Needs to Understand -- Chapter 4 The Methodology for Change -- Part II What 'Approaching It Differently' Could Achieve |
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Chapter 5 Political Intervention: Changing the Environment That the 'Industry Organism' Functions Within -- Chapter 6 Industry Intervention: Changing How The 'Industry Organism' Functions Within Its Environment -- Changing the Message to Fit the Audience -- Chapter 7 The Missing Tools: The Tools We Need, How to Build Them, and How to Promote Them -- Chapter 8 Applying the Tools to the Housing Industry -- Conclusion -- Introduction -- Part I What Are We Trying to Fix -- and What's Stopping Us? -- Who Are the 'We's? (Chapter 1) -- What Are 'We' Trying to Fix? (Chapter 2) |
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What's Stopping Us? (Chapter 3) -- What Needs to Change? (Chapter 4) -- Bibliography -- Part I What Are We Trying to Do?: What's Stopping Us? How Could We Approach It Differently? -- 1 Defining the Sectors -- Government-Controlled Roles -- Contractors / Developers -- Material and Trade Suppliers -- Design Service Providers -- Public End Users -- Making Sense of the Divisions -- Bibliography -- 2 Drivers for Change: The Government Perspective On What the Industry Needs to Do -- The Government's Perspective -- The Farmer Review -- Fixing Our Broken Housing Market -- Local Authorities -- The Carrots |
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The Sticks -- Comments -- Developers -- The Carrots -- The Sticks -- Comments -- Local Communities -- The Carrot -- The Stick -- Comments -- Housing Associations -- The Carrot -- The Stick -- Comments -- Utility Companies and Infrastructure Providers -- The Carrots -- The Sticks -- Comments -- The Construction Leadership Council -- BLP -- 18 Months On -- Letwin -- Build-Out Rate, 2018 -- Construction Sector Deal 2017 -- Conclusion -- the Drivers for Change -- Bibliography -- 3 Barriers to Change: The Industry Perspective On What the Government Needs to Understand -- Exposing the Barriers to Change |
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Applying the 'Barriers to Change' Approach -- Revisiting Farmer's Ten Symptoms -- So What Now? -- Bibliography -- 4 The Methodology for Change -- Systems Thinking -- Shifting Equilibria -- Using Systems Thinking's Methodologies -- The Evolution of Systems Thinking -- How Systems Thinking Relates to Construction -- Radical Incrementalism -- Developing the Decision-Making Tool -- The Question-Based Approach -- The Decision-Making Tree -- Key Motivating Factors -- The Dominant Sector -- Mutual Benefits -- Exclusivity -- Viability Check -- Feasibility -- Weighting the Factors and Measuring Risk |
| Summary |
Using the broken UK housing sector as a case study, Mike Siebert applies a Systems Thinking approach to tackling some of the shared Wwicked Pproblems faced by an industry which that urgently needs to change direction. Essential reading for all construction industry stakeholders |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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1 Defining the Benefits |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000963939 |
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1000963934 |
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