| dc.description.abstract | This project is on various innovations models and tries to measure the extent on
to which the Kenyan quantity surveying firms have adopted. Innovation is seen as a key
activity in improving construction industry performance.
The study will be seeking to develop a framework for understanding innovation
in all construction professional service firms; i.e. to identify a way of classifying the
types of innovation that such firms might pursue. The research design takes a nonprobability
or qualitative approach. The researcher's intention has been to develop an
overview of possible evidence for innovation amongst a reasonably homogenous, but
necessarily limited, group of firms.
The research project carries some of the features of a survey in that both
questionnaires and structured interviews were carried out with all the firms selected for
study. Through literature review the research takes a crack at identifying factors that can
be used as evidence of innovation The path of innovation that each firm follows wi11be
different. Each firm acquires specific capabilities overtime and these tend to determine
the path of future development. The more innovative firms display a number of
characteristics that include close interaction with clients, investment in ICT systems that
span the whole organisation and development of organisational structures and culture
that facilitate the systematic acquisition of new knowledge and its incorporation into
new services and new processes of service delivery.
This work is organised into five chapters. Chapter one comprises
Introduction, background, problem statement, objective of the study, hypothesis
significance .of the study, literature review/ theoretical framework and research
methodology. Chapter two contains the literature review, Chapter three introduces the
study area. Chapter four contains analysis and presentation of data that the researcher
collected from the field. Chapter five contains findings, Summary and conclusions, the
future role of quantity surveyors and areas of further research. | en |
