Innovation management in project oriented companies

Abstract

Innovations as main tools that enable competitive advantage are crucial for business success of any enterprise. Therefore, they should be fostered systematically. The environment and the organisational culture within the enterprise should encourage the individuals as well as groups to create, express and develop the ideas into innovative products and services that yield an additional value. Providing support to the desired organisational culture in project oriented company, such as construction contracting company, is a challenging task due to constantly changing working groups and the environment. The paper identifies the challenges and drivers of innovation in project oriented companies and discusses measures to be taken in order to facilitate technological and organisational innovations by using literature survey. Selected case studies of tehnological and organisational construction innovations are presented and analysed.