Profitable partnering for lean construction /

• Main Author: Cain, Clive Thomas.
• Corporate Author: Wiley InterScience (Online service)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK ; Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2004.
• Subjects: Building > Cost control.; Partnership.; Building materials.; Delivery of goods.; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Construction > General.; Electronic books.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess

This practical guide focuses on the ability of long-term strategic supply-side partnering to convert the traditionally high level of unnecessary costs into better and more sustained profits for all involved. It also explains how clients need to use partnering to ensure best value from their precurem...

Table of Contents:

• What is partnering?
• Why partner at all?
• The unchanged UK demand for improvement
• The international demand for improvement
• Partnering in the virtual company
• Setting up strategic supply-side partnerships
• The client's role in partnering
• Effective leadership
• The buzzwords explained.