| dc.description.abstract | Files and documentation plays an important role in the corporate organization. From a management information system point of view, files are important resources that require systematic management. Traditional filing system encounters problem such as room storage, safekeeping, searching, sharing and transferring. The manual filing method already can not meet the demand in today’’s competitive environment where speed and efficiency are stressed. How to collaborate a company’s file assets to IT network and find the total solution for the problems stated above will therefore enhance efficiency in management and strategic decision in a corporate organization.
Most construction companies are of small to mid-sized scale organization doing business in a competitive environment. There are less requirements for IT technology and computerization in the office. Yet, construction projects are usually conducted in various sites and based on the special nature and requirement of construction’s documentation or blueprint, website would provide a solution for proper storage and centralized management for all files. Website network offers and allows employees to operate a upload and download large files and there are no restrictions in database enquiry from any location. Thus providing accurate and efficient solution for accurate usage of construction professional information and also solving the difficulties of transferring files once project is completed.
Construction companies using either Groupware software or Two-tier management systems, have faced not accepted by small enterprise and internet. Which has a shortcomings on expanding. Therefore, this research study can establish a construction files network management system for systematic and automatic files management that can be used in most local construction companies. As a result, management, consolidation, accurate storage, amendment, searching, sharing of files objective is achieved.
Even though this research has used Tang Eng Company Construction Department as the case study. We plan the unity standard and the demand of the lowest requestment first. Under the pretext of using MS Office system software prevalently used by office employees and the least capital expenditure, the structure can be amended and market to other construction companies to replace the traditional filing systems. | en_US |