There’s a lot of things closing in on the space that's creating a lot of dissatisfaction, and the people who have the money are the most dissatisfied - the big end-users, the big governments…”.
The locus of power and decision-making in companies.Operational engineering and manufacturing drive the majority of investment plans and proposals.
Their expertise, understanding and comfort lie with the plants and systems they work with every day.This creates a natural inertia away from any transformation of technology or approach.. Capital governance processes skew decision-making and inhibit the new..Significant investment approvals come to senior executives who rightly ask many difficult questions, while they may mistakenly expect and demand certainty.
The demands and difficulties in getting through these governance processes drive both a false optimism in justifying product demand and drive the scale of the investment; “this is our one chance, so go with what we know and go big!”.The resources needed for change (above the day-to-day).
Changing platform technology could place additional demands on operations above and beyond those of securing ongoing supply and product transfer..
The compulsion to change seems not yet powerful enough to overcome these barriers or to put it another way, has not yet reached the activation energy threshold.While there, he engaged Bryden Wood and together they developed the Front End Factory, a collaborative endeavour to explore how to turn purpose and strategy into the right projects – which paved the way for Design to Value.
He is committed to the betterment of lives through individual and collective endeavours.. As well as his business and pharmaceutical experience, Dyson is Professor of Human Enterprise at the University of Birmingham, focussing on project management, business strategy and collaboration.. Additionally, he is a qualified counsellor with a private practice and looks to bring the understanding of human behaviour into business and projects.. To learn more about our Design to Value philosophy, read Design to Value: The architecture of holistic design and creative technology by Professor John Dyson, Mark Bryden, Jaimie Johnston MBE and Martin Wood.Available to purchase at.Like many, I am torn.
I am very clear that we are at a Rubicon for human life, we are rapidly changing the environment and damaging the eco-system.The geological record demonstrates that changes of this magnitude in the past have been catastrophic, particularly for the earth’s dominant species.