TY  - CONF
TI  - Strategic Partnerships Between Project Client and Client’s Agent
C1  - Auckland, New Zealand
C3  - Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC 32)
SP  - 131
EP  - 142
PY  - 2024
DO  - 10.24928/2024/0168
AU  - Ørke, Johan Christie
AU  - Engebø, Atle
AU  - Lædre, Ola
AD  - M.Sc. student, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, johan.c.orke@ntnu.no, orcid.org/0000-0002-9040-6762
AD  - Researcher, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, atle.engebo@ntnu.no, orcid.org/0000-0002-5293-0176
AD  - Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, ola.ladre@ntnu.no, orcid.org/0000-0003-4604-8299
AB  - Strategic partnership is an emerging project delivery method characterized by long-term collaboration in multiple projects. In this paper, we seek to increase the knowledge about strategic partnerships. From a lean perspective, strategic partnerships could be a potential measure towards mitigating inefficiency caused by lacking continuity and previous relationships. Our purpose is to reveal aspects that can help clients and client’s agents organize better strategic partnerships. The client’s agent is the contracted adviser who takes care of all the functions which the client’s project management cannot handle. A literature review and a case study were conducted, where the case study included eight semi-structured interviews. The findings identify several benefits regarding soft factors in a strategic partnership. However, some challenges are also identified, especially by the client. Based on the findings, four measures are suggested to improve strategic partnerships between client and client’s agent: Mutually helping the other part get new projects, ensuring competence development, ensuring availability of demanded qualifications, and more focus on the long-term and future perspective of the strategic partnership.
KW  - Lean construction
KW  - contract and cost management
KW  - strategic partnerships
KW  - client’s agent.
PB  - 
T2  - Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC 32)
DA  - 2024/07/01
CY  - Auckland, New Zealand
L1  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/2206/pdf
L2  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/2206
N1  - Export Date: 25 April 2025
DB  - IGLC.net
DP  - IGLC
LA  - English
ER  -