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DOI: 10.26713/cma.v13i2.2036

Review Article

Construction of Project Management Using

Information System
Khaled Mofawiz Alfawaz* and Fahd Mohammed Aljedani
Department of Management Information System, Faculty of Economics and Administration,
King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
*Corresponding author: [email protected]

Received: January 11, 2022 Accepted: February 21, 2022

Abstract. Information is playing a vital role of every concerns project management processes. The
activities of organization’s project management, desires to attain an excellent flow of information.
This task can be done through to build a high quality information system to that concern. This
paper concentrates the present status of information systems in the function of construction project
management for the huge corporation and government agencies in Saudi Arabia. The innovative
conceptual model names as Information System Success (ISS) is built to obtain the barriers of
information system in project constructions as well as independent variables are introduced.With the
assistance of ISS model, the researcher can create a survey to verify the achievement of the information
system and the autonomous variables that influence the information system within the population
data. The results will explain the improvements of Saudi Arabia’s large corporation government
agencies construction project. Moreover, the result indicates that the independent variables have
focusing the effect of the information system such as IT infrastructure, organizational competence
along with management support.
Keywords. Project management, Cost maintenance, Research strategy, Organizational competency
Mathematics Subject Classification (2020). 68Q30, 68Q06

Copyright © 2022 Khaled Mofawiz Alfawaz and Fahd Mohammed Aljedani. This is an open access article distributed
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1. Introduction
Currently the world is depending more on digitalization, defined it as to utilize the recent
technology of digital to enhance the business activates and tasks. It also means that to transfer
the business tasks from regular processes that depend on non-digital techniques such as papers.
For all kinds of successive business, the digital transformation plays an important factor.
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Covid-19 has highlighted the importance of digitalization since the business trip as well as the
meetings also restricted. Moreover, the digitization proves the reduction of effort along with
time requires in all kinds of business and also the total productivity is increased.
A Project is defined as a series of activities that needed to complete to reach a specific
outcome. As complexity increases the concept need something to control or manage the whole
complex sequence of tasks for that the project management is introduced. Project management
is the application of processes, methods, skills, knowledge and experience to achieve the specific
objectives of the project according to the project acceptance criteria within the agreed parameters.
Project management is not an easy work, to make human work easier the machines are invented
similarly here exist a need for the system that is the project management function [6].
Construction of project requirements stores huge amount of information, the information
has been stored according to their security level. Optimal information system provides the
tremendous satisfaction in handling with the most important projects.
Project construction in Saudi Arabia is facing numerous hurdles in handling with some of
the factors similar to cost of maintenance. Moreover, it faces many delay troubles which cost
more. Based on the previous survey 76 percent of the projects were delayed. According to the
Ministry of Rural Affairs and Municipal about 75 percent of public construction projects were
delayed. The survey report says that 662 projects, calculated to cost 40 billion Riyals, prolonged
their due date with substantial delay time.

Figure 1. Barriers facing any project

Figure 1 portrays about the barriers of project construction management like information
system, management supporting level, investment with benefit, technology awareness level, IT
infrastructure level, changing resistance as well as nature of project industry. Main aim of the
paper is to assess and evaluate the recent construction project management for the Saudi Arabia
government agencies, to discover the major successive factor, to explore the significance of the
information system and to enhance the model for the main success factors of huge corporation
and the Saudi Arabia’s government agencies.

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2. Related Works
The effect of the social environment on the use of IT in project management is to identify how
knowledge sharing in the social environment influences the use of IT in project management.
This study is mainly based on data collected from survey questionnaires that were distributed
to 170 employees who were a member in at least three project teams. The findings of this study
show that there is a significant difference.
Path analysis of 160 participants who used PMIS for ERP projects at the FPT information
system - member of the FPT group showing all the empirically supported hypotheses. The
results indicate that the success of the ERP project is determined by the satisfaction of the
PMIS users which in turn is influenced by the usability of the users, the quality of the system,
the quality of the functional information and the quality of the support service [2].
The researcher deliberately sampled the 62 WVT projects nationwide, for which
questionnaires were administered to 92 staff members with a breakdown of 30 DME officers and
62 project managers; other forms of data collection were also used, such as direct observation
and face-to-face interviews. Respondents’ responses were analyzed using the Social Science
Statistics Package (SPSS) [3].
The article studies the process and method of reengineering the construction project
management process based on the CPR (Construction process reengineering) theory, offers a
conceptual reflection for the engineering construction project management information system
based on the CPR theory, and uses J2EE technology to set up an information platform to
implement support for the construction management process [5].
Another related document introduces an SMS alert function for the approval of project
documents developed using Short Message Gateway and the interface program provided by the
mobile phone company, which has positive significance for a project process. ’Shorter approval
and improve work efficiency. The uses of this feature in the construction of MIS power plant
infrastructure have garnered constant recognition and praise from customers, adding strengths
for the management of power plant infrastructure construction projects [6].
In the country, due to the lack of unified standards of planning and construction of
information technology on project costs, has led to the formation of many "information islands".
Therefore, the article proposes the integration of the project cost information management
system for the project cost management service to meet the urgent needs of project cost sharing
and utilization [7].

3. The Proposed Conceptual Model

Information system can be classified into voluntary use as well as mandatory use. Factors and
reasons of information system are discussed below. Table 1 describes about the relationship
among the Barriers and Factors.
Figure 2 explains about the data flow of conceptual model, in that the relationships of
management support, technology support, organizational support along with IT infrastructure.
This conceptual model consists of ten constructs respectively. These ten constructs can be
divided into concern groups which are termed as ISS model associated with the influencing
variables group. It contains some of the characteristics like system quality termed as SQ which
is used to calculate the needed characteristics of the system, Information quality (IQ) which
determine the quality outcome of the concern system, service quality referred as SEQ which
estimate the support that the consumer receives from the system provider and the final one is
net benefit which measure the positive as well as negative impacts of the stakeholder.

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Table 1. Communication between barriers and factors

Barriers Factors
Attained images with high cost investment This is measured as an outcome of bad attitudes in the
exclusive of guaranteed benefit direction of technology
Minimum level of management support These barriers can be based on management support
factors as well as attitude towards technology factors
Minimum level of technology awareness It can be use technology experience factor, organizational
competence factor as well as expectance
Minimum level of IT Infrastructure It can be use the IT infrastructure factor or facilitating
condition factor
Changing Resistance This can be act as a common barrier of the industries
Project Industry Nature Common barrier among all countries
Quality of Information system ISS model will be used to estimate the accomplishment
of the information system

Figure 2. Conceptual model

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At the same time the influencing variables group encloses the characterizes similar to ATT
termed as attitudes towards technology which is the degree to which the consumer acquires
a constructive view of technology, TE termed as technology experience which is the sum of
knowledge a user has had with the recent technology, management support which is the degree
of information support (MS) an information system as a sponsor, champion of the system,
OC termed as Organizational competence which is the knowledge possessed by the concern
application, purpose as well as operationalization of IT and the final characteristic of ITI termed
as IT infrastructure within the firm.

4. The Research Methodology

The Research methodology focuses on how to build the research method. So the research goes
on building how to store quality information and data throughout the global processing.The
philosophy gives us an idea about the project management system and thus by creating a well
build information system. The collection of data are also being stored and protected throughout
in this methodology.
The sampling method will be mixed between intentional sampling and avalanche sampling
which will suit the resources of this methodology. For data collection, this research will use the
Google form to create and distribute the survey. This survey will be distributed via WhatsApp
and LinkedIn is the primary distribution channel[5].
The major limitation in this methodology is the data collection, since the distribution is
handled not as efficiently as planned. The probability sampling technique is being used in
this work. Therefore,the result is not as perfect which is the main limitation of this research
process [6].
The analysis of the data is also being collected for this work and done according to the plan.
The distribution of survey is done through LinkedIn and WhatsApp which is considered not
as efficient. Out of 205 respondents, 152 actually responded which is approximately 74%. Out
of these 152 responses, 42 were excluded since they did not answer tricky answers which are
mentioned in the survey.
Finally, those 110 responses are only considered efficient enough according to the analysis
done in collected data. Thus got a clear numerical based analysis based on the survey done by
the study in Data Analysis. The main characteristics of data analysis are age, work experience,
project value, occupation and work field of the respondent.

5. Achieved Results
The summarized data is tabulated for the analysis purpose; it contains Age and Experience
of the sample. Mean, Median, Mode, etc. are shown in Figure 3 with respect to its Age and
Experience.
From Table 2 the highest age is 34 and its experience is 9.90. Maximum is 51.
The summarized data is tabulated for the analysis purpose, it contains project value
information. It involves frequency, percent, valid percent and cumulative percent which is
shown in Figure 4.

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Figure 3. Age and experience of the sample data

Table 2. Age and experience of the sample data

Particulars Age Experience

Missing 110 110
Mean 34.74 9.90
Median 33.00 8.00
Mode 30 7
Std Deviation 5.679 5.158
Variance 32.251 26.605
Skewness 0.968 1.138
Std Error of Skewness 0.230 0.230
Range 27 22
Minimum 24 2
Maximum 51 24

Figure 4. Project value

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Table 3. Sample data of project value

Particulars Frequency Percent Valid Percent Cumulative Percent

1 million Saudi riyals or less 16 14.5 14.5
10 million Saudi riyals Or less 24 21.8 21.8 36.4
100 million Saudi riyals or less 21 19.1 19.1 55.5
1 billion Saudi riyals or less 20 18.2 18.2 73.6
More than 1 billion Saudi riyals 29 100.0 26.4 100.0
Total 110 100.0 100.0 100.0

From Table 3, we see that the project value is shown. Higher factor of frequency - higher the
percent along with the valid percentage.
The summarized data is tabulated for the analysis purpose; it contains Occupation of admin,
project engineer, manager and top management.

Figure 5. Occupation

Table 4. Occupation details

Particulars Frequency Percent Valid Percent Cumulative Percent

Administrator or technician 23 20.9 20.9 20.9
Project Engineer 52 47.3 47.3 68.2
Project Manager 31 28.2 28.2 96.4
Top management 4 3.6 3.6 100
Total 110 100 100 100

From Table 4, Occupation details are shown. Project engineer is having the highest frequency
while Top management is having the low.

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Figure 6. Project value distribution

The summarized data is tabulated for the analysis purpose; it contains Project value
distribution. Figure 6 is shown in a pie chart form in which Saudi riyals is distributed.

Table 5. Project value distribution

Saudi riyals Percent

More than 1 billion Saudi riyals 26%
1 Million Saudi riyals 15%
10 Million Saudi riyals 22%
100 Million Saudi riyals 19%
1 billion Saudi riyals 18%

From the above Pie chart, More than 1 billion Saudi riyals is dominating by 26% whereas 1
Million Saudi riyals is least which is 15%.
The summarized data is tabulated for the analysis purpose, it contains Occupation
distribution. Different levels of occupation are shown in Figure 7 using pie chart.

Figure 7. Details of occupation

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Table 6. Details of occupation

Occupation Percent
Admission or Technician 21%
Project Engineer 47%
Project Manager 28%
Top Management 4%

From the above table, Project Engineer is leading among other three Occupations. Almost
half of the occupation is carried out by the Project Engineer.
The order of the survey will be analyzed as:

• System Quality
• Information Quality
• Service Quality
• User Satisfaction
• Net Benefit
• Attitude towards Technology
• Technological Experience
• Management Support
• Organizational Competency
• IT Infrastructure

6. Discussions
For the relationship of variables within the ISS model, the study can add another conformation
for the model to the body of knowledge. It appears from the data analysis section that all
the assumptions of the ISS model are accepted with a confidence level of 99% and beta
coefficients between 0.53 and 0.74. For the second part, which is the relationship between
the five independent variables and its dependent variables within the ISS model, the data
analyzed do not support all the hypotheses. The reports are divided into three categories: the
first category is accepted with a confidence level of 99% and beta coefficients between 0.3 and
0.66. This category contains the following relationships:

• Management assistance > System quality (0.66)

• Management assistance > Information quality (0.357).
• Management assistance > User satisfaction (0.449)
• Management assistance > Net profit (0.534)
• Organizational competence > Quality information (0.301).
• Organizational competence > Net profit (0.589)

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• IT infrastructure > Net profit (0.581).

From the result, it is clear that the influence of individual characteristics on the current IS
of construction projects is little or no. What we mean by individual characteristics is attitude
towards technology and technological experience which are the two variables that measure
an individual trait in the conceptual model of this study. If we looked at the descriptive
analysis of these two variables, we could see that they have the highest values compared to the
other variables. The attitude towards technology is on average 4.16, which reflects a positive
attitude towards technology. In addition, the standard deviation is 0.578, which means that the
dispersion is small and most of the sample has a positive attitude towards the technology.

7. Concluded Comments
At the end of this study it is concluded to stress the importance of improving the information
system of any company and via this analysis it is found that a particular importance for the
project construction industry which is important for the economy of any country. Saudi Arabia
is at the start of its journey to 2030 during which it will complete many construction projects
requiring an effective information system. The analysis suggested that in order to improve the
information system, one must initially improve the characteristic variables of the organization
(for example, these are management support, organizational competence and IT infrastructure).
This improvement can be achieved through the co-operation of different parties such
as universities, large companies and government agencies and technology implementation
companies. This means that the need of several studies with different tools and techniques like
case studies and interviews or a survey like this study. The information from this analysis must
be carefully analyzed and a decision based on it must be made. Technology is not a strange
subject for Saudis as they are already familiar with it in different areas such as e-government.
Therefore, this construction project information system development path will not be difficult,
it will only require effort and time.
This improvement can be achieved through the co-operation of different parties such
as universities, large companies and government agencies and technology implementation
companies. This means that the need of several studies with different tools and techniques like
case studies and interviews or a survey like this study. The information from this analysis must
be carefully analyzed and a decision based on it must be made. Technology is not a strange
subject for Saudis as they are already familiar with it in different areas such as e-government.
Therefore, this construction project information system development path will not be difficult;
it will only require effort and time.

Competing Interests
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Authors’ Contributions
All the authors contributed significantly in writing this article. The authors read and approved
the final manuscript.

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