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A pilot study of client complexity, emergent requirements and stakeholder perceptions of project success

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Construction industry reliance on performance metrics fixed at the project outset is being superseded by increasing use of emergent client judgments to characterize success. Clients may still consider a project that fails to meet formalized time, cost and performance goals successful if it satisfies emergent requirements not understood during initial briefing. Construction practitioners do not routinely recognize that client awareness of requirements improves as projects progress. Internal conflict among the client stakeholders and their reflections on the emerging project solution help client stakeholders to better understand their needs. Dissatisfaction results when these emergent requirements are not acknowledged. The need for practitioners to recognize and respond to these issues is explored by a paradigmatic case study of an office relocation and refurbishment project. The role of the 'project sponsor' as a synthesizer of client requirements and reflections on the emerging solution was observed to be subverted by stakeholders in a client body who found their emergent requirements were not acknowledged by construction practitioners. By characterizing the harmful effect of pluralistic client complexity and emergent requirements on perceptions of project success, the rationale for a revised project sponsor role to better address these influences on perceptions of project success is contributed.

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  • Derek Thomson, 2011. "A pilot study of client complexity, emergent requirements and stakeholder perceptions of project success," Construction Management and Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 29(1), pages 69-82.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:conmgt:v:29:y:2011:i:1:p:69-82
    DOI: 10.1080/01446193.2010.519399
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    1. RAMEL, Elodie, 2014. "How External Stakeholder Impact Project Management Success," Holistic Marketing Management Journal, Holistic Marketing Management, vol. 4(1), pages 35-40, March.
    2. Juliana P. Baldauf & Carlos T. Formoso & Patricia Tzortzopoulos & Luciana I. G. Miron & Joao Soliman-Junior, 2020. "Using Building Information Modelling to Manage Client Requirements in Social Housing Projects," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(7), pages 1-21, April.

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