Saudi Cultural Missions Theses & Dissertations
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Item Restricted The Impact of Strategic Planning on The Success of Construction Project Outcomes in England, United Kingdom(De Montfort University, 2024) Badughaish, Tariq Omar; Odumosu, EmmanuelThis dissertation seeks to establish the impact of impact planning in construction project concerning retention of success in the United Kingdom Construction Industry. Some of these are aims at identifying the relationship between strategic planning and project performance, identifying factors that hinders effective planning, and how sustainability consideration is integrated when designing strategic frameworks. It also focuses on how the aspect of strategic planning affects cost, time, quality and satisfaction of stakeholders in construction ventures. Through a mixed-methods approach, incorporating interviews and a systematic review of literature, the research answers the following questions: To what extent, therefore, does strategic planning impact on project implementation in the United Kingdom? What issues can make its efficient adoption an issue or restrict the use of the methodology? There is also a need to consider the way strategic planning enables sustainability particularly in construction. Key findings indicate that instrumental concepts prove the utility of the concept of strategic planning in structuring projects regarding the time, cost and quality, but they reveal difficulties in fragmentation of the industry and short-term sustainability concepts. The analysis also reveals that it is possible to overcome all these barriers if there is increased focus on sustainability, some form of strategic pre-emption, and measures tailored for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). Therefore, to enhance the effectiveness of construction projects’ outcomes, this paper calls for a comprehensive strategic vision across UK construction firms with special emphasis to SMEs that integrates sustainability. This means that resources must be allocated towards improving development initiatives that build the strategic competence of construction practitioners as well as encouraging long-term perspective. It is also important that government policies should encourage SMEs through appropriate financial and technical assistance to address the issue of resource constraint and the requirement on sustainability standards. Through the implementation of the above measures, firms can be able to optimise the performance of their projects, increase stakeholder satisfaction and therefore gain a competitive advantage in an industry that is fast being defined by sustainable standards.15 0Item Restricted IMPROVING CONTINUITY AND QUALITY ASSURANCE IN INTERNET OF THINGS INFRASTRUCTURE USING BLOCKCHAIN(Saudi Digital Library, 2022) Alshehri, Hussain Ali; Tanik, Murat; Jololian, Leon; Haider, Mohammad; Lingasubramanian, Karthik; Wells, Buren EarlIn this research I present a rigorous study on the service continuity and quality assurance using the Internet of Things (IoT). The research aims at identifying risks and improving the risk mitigation tools that are currently in use for improving the IoT performance, and for pushing forward the implementation of IoT in mission critical applications. This objective can be accomplished by identifying the impact of the strategic planning, quality assurance, performance assurance, and risk management on the IoT used in businesses. While the focus is mainly on the business continuity domain, the technical aspects of IoT solutions are also covered. The unique contributions are two folds. First, the service continuity objects are recognized and categorized with their properties. Second, several methods are proposed to mitigate the service fallbacks and reduce the risk factors in IoT service discontinuity. The contribution of the research should extend to the technical aspect of IoT. Little work has been done to assess the IoT technology risks in ultra-low power devices. The implementation of these devices is on the rise and more work has to be done to ensure that they meet the minimum continuity certification requirements with reliability, availability and responsiveness. In this research, I will try to find the optimal solution with continuity and quality assurance when we use the IoT. This is by using strategic plans based on international standard strategic foundations and theories, after obtaining the actual results from the strategic planning tools. Moreover, several factors must be taken into consideration, such as reliability, availability, speed of response, continuity, and quality. To the best of my knowledge, this work is one of the first to reflect on IoT continuity in a business assurance context. It also presents a unique approach in identifying the objects contribution to the business assurance by identifying static parameters that are persistent over time, and variable parameters that change over the course of time. In my approach I identify seven areas for IoT continuity and quality assurance: connected manufacturing, asset tracking, marketing, transportation and delivery, smart technologies, data and analytics, and security.32 0