TY  - CONF
TI  - Lean Supporting a Framework for the Construction Innovation Process
C1  - Lille, France
C3  - Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC31)
SP  - 81
EP  - 91
PY  - 2023
DO  - 10.24928/2023/0157
AU  - Etges, Bernardo Martim Beck da Silva
AU  - Caten, Carla Schwengber ten
AD  - PhD Candidate, M.Sc. Eng. at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul; Founding-Partner at Climb Consulting  Group, Porto Alegre, Brazil, bernardo@climbgroup.com.br, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3037-5597 
AD  - 2  Full Professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul(UFRGS), Director of the School of Engineering  at UFRGS, carlacaten@gmail.com, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7904-0974  
AB  - The construction sector has gradually been restructuring to advance the use of digitalization and taking advantage of Industry 4.0. Recent studies in the IGLC Community have emphasized the need to connect Lean Construction with the innovative movement by promoting and advancing the use of Industry 4.0 technologies. However, it is well known that innovation approaches are successful when they achieve the goal of problem solving. Considering this context two questions are set: (a) Does the innovation process in construction sector understand how to capture pain-points of the industry and in how it organizes itself? (b) Does Lean Construction contribute by offering a conceptual basis for reaching a better understanding of innovation? This paper aims to develop a framework for analyzing and catching the pain-points as the starting point for the innovation process. As a result, a Problem-space-framework (PSF) was proposed and validated in a empirical study. The first question was tackled by conducting a qualitative analysis and holding a workshop, the outcome of which was that eight out of 98 pain-points identified were prioritized towards the solution design. The second question was also fully answered identifying that 89% of the participants understood that Lean Construction contributed to the PSF and most of Lean tools proposed were regarded as having high usability during the implementation phases. 
KW  - Lean construction
KW  - innovation
KW  - pain-points
KW  - problem-space-framework
PB  - 
T2  - Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC31)
DA  - 2023/06/26
CY  - Lille, France
L1  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/2096/pdf
L2  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/2096
N1  - Export Date: 03 April 2025
DB  - IGLC.net
DP  - IGLC
LA  - English
ER  -