APPLICATION OF ICT BENEFITS FOR BUILDING PROJECT MANAGEMENT USING ISM MODEL

Abstract

Construction is the second largest industrial activity is the Indian economy, employing over 31 million people. The construction projects require effective collaboration and coordination among the diverse project participants, that which exhibits a unique set of characteristics such as fragmentation, multidisciplinary, development, substantial financial commitment, varying complexities, long time spans, and a large number of geographically separated stakeholders involved at all the stages of the projects. Construction projects are managed by designated Project Managers, Architects or Contracts on behalf of the client or by the clients themselves depending on the contract and the project type. Project managers are required to integrate the efforts of all the stakeholders for required coordination for successful project management. Information Communication Technology (ICT) has influenced project management practices by the way of introducing and implementing newly developed management tools and the latest technology. Interpretive Structural Modeling(ISM) is a systematic application of graph theory in such a way that theoretical, conceptual and computational leverage is exploited by efficiently constructs a directed graph, or network representation, of the complex patters of relationship among the elements. In the present study an attempt is made to identify the strategic benefits, their level and interdependency for the project team organization using ICT and to develop ISM model for all the categories of benefits. For the present study MICMAC analysis is used to analyze the drive power and dependence power factors and by which 14 independent / Driven / Linkage benefits were obtained out of 31 benefits.