Relevant Issues for MARCON Potential Challenges for MARCON

Bab 2: Kajian Pustaka 8 Project Benefit INTBEN menjanjikan kesempatan dan harapan serta memjamin peningkatan daya saing perusahaan melalui peningkatan aset intelektual, pengetahuan dan keterampilan, kekayaan perusahaan berdasarkan hak untuk mendapatkan pelayanan dan keuntungan melalui sistim organisasi yang legal; 6 Managing Project Complexity and Intricate Nature PROCOM memberikan potensi tantangan nyata yang harus dihadapi dikendalikan oleh manajer proyek, dan juga terdapat kesempatan yang besar untuk mampu membuat prestasi melalui peningkatan efektivitas dan efisiensi demi memaksimalkan keuntungan proyek; 7 Improving Contractors’ Current Roles in Practices ROPRAC mengoptimalkan pengalaman dan tanggung-jawab kontraktor dalam merencanakan dan mengestimasi biaya proyek seakurat mungkin, yang berimplikasi detail terhadap proses dan aktivitas konstruksi menuju keberhasilan proyek secara menyeluruh; dan 8 Requirement for a Robust Method and Tool METOOL berimplikasi bahwa, manajer proyek harus mempertimbangkan penggunaan metoda yang cocok, teknik dan peralatan yang efektif, serta pemanfaatan sumberdaya lainnya yang efisien untuk meningkatkan kinerja manajer proyek, manajemen biaya, pengelolaan dan pengendalian proyek secara cermat dan praktis mereferensi kepada Jaya et al., 2011a. Berikut ini didiskusikan secara detail dan memdalam mengenai informasi, isu-isu penting, tantangan, dan pengelompokan grouping terhadap delapan 8 kelompok CSFs yang dikutip dari karya ilmiah oleh Jaya 2014 sesuai aslinya berbahasa inggris.

2.3.1. Understanding the Market Conditions MARCON

2.3.1.1. Relevant Issues for MARCON

Global economic conditions may have causal relationships with the rise and fall of the construction industry. The industrial downturn is affected by an unstable economy Pitcher, 2009. The construction industry output in the United Kingdom UK suffered a sharp decline during the global recession in 2008 and 2009 ONS-Office for National Statistics, 2009 and 2010. The UK, the EU, the US, and the world Gross Domestic Products GDPs continue to come below the leading Asian markets such as China and India in this decade refer to Amiel, 2011. The economic crisis is known as a threat on one Bab 2: Kajian Pustaka 9 hand, while on the other hand provides opportunities to boost crisis recovery rather quickly through construction sectors Mussa, 2010. The construction sectors will contribute a significant contribution of global GDPs in 2020 Hook, 2011. The market circumstances like this may affect construction markets and developments in general, and particularly to the project managers‟ role on cost management and controlling practice during the construction stage.

2.3.1.2. Potential Challenges for MARCON

Construction project participants, and particularly, project managers in charge, must understand clearly how to deal with market prices, how to predict market movements, and be able to adjust project costs flexibly enough to meet current market conditions for avoiding financial losses, which, in turn, should contribute additional benefits to the organisation. The clear understanding, flexible adjustments, and managerial attention on the effect of the market conditions such as: economic fluctuations, industrial production sectors e.g., affecting the GDPs, employment, market price, project outsourcing, et cetera, are the important aspects for successful project completion through effective cost management and controlling practices of the project.

2.3.1.3. A Group of Important CSFs for MARCON