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Innovation in engineering consultancy: A case for competitive advantage

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Main Author: Thum, Peng Chew
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Institution of Engineers, Malaysia 2011
Subjects:
Engineering consultancy
Business process re-engineering
Knowledge management
Innovation
Competitiveness
Online Access:http://dspace.unimap.edu.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/13661
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spelling my.unimap-136612011-09-04T07:46:32Z Innovation in engineering consultancy: A case for competitive advantage Thum, Peng Chew Engineering consultancy Business process re-engineering Knowledge management Innovation Competitiveness Link to publisher's homepage at http://www.myiem.org.my/ The internationalisation of the engineering consultancy services brings new challenges to its competitiveness. Service innovation is the way to enhance competitiveness. Although competitive innovation in the 1990s was achieved by information and communication technologies adoption, it is no longer sustainable without the combination of entrepreneurship, learning, sharing, knowledge and creativity, and by using information and communication technologies as a tool. The firm and the individual face challenges from external perceptions, internal beliefs, institutional legacies and organisation cultural misalignments. This paper proposes a knowledge-based model for re-engineering the firm with a learning culture. If engineering consultancy is a knowledge-based business whose asset is the employees, then the firm has to manage knowledge in an organisational learning and sharing context for the innovation purpose. Knowledge management with a human resource strategy for learning is a means to leverage the know-how, experience and judgment of the pool of highly qualified labour to achieve the innovation objective by replacing irrelevant work routines with dynamic ones. 2011-09-04T07:46:32Z 2011-09-04T07:46:32Z 2005-06 Article The Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Malaysia, vol. 66(2), 2005, pages 15-25 0126-513X http://www.myiem.org.my/content/iem_journal_2005-176.aspx http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/13661 en The Institution of Engineers, Malaysia
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topic Engineering consultancy
Business process re-engineering
Knowledge management
Innovation
Competitiveness
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Business process re-engineering
Knowledge management
Innovation
Competitiveness
Thum, Peng Chew
Innovation in engineering consultancy: A case for competitive advantage
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