These hierarchies define the roadmap to achieve good and best practice performance targets defined by bodies such as LETI, RIBA or GLA.
She cautions against trying small, single aspects of industrialised construction on one project at a time, as the projects take years to complete and so the learnings are too few and take much too long to achieve.She says there’s a need for more people like herself and Jaimie Johnston to challenge what doesn’t make sense and stick their necks on the line.. “It's not easy to be the Queen of Prefab!” she says, adding, “Mike Tyson says, everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.
I've been punched in the face a lot.It's not easy, but nothing that's really amazing is ever easy.And, by the way, interestingly enough, I don't really get punched in the face that often at all anymore, which is, I think, a litmus test that things are changing.”.
Marks says that these days people mainly just want to know how to get where they need to go with all of this.She says the CEOs still fighting the change to industrialised construction need to recognise that others aren’t anymore - that in a long-game sense, they “probably aren’t doing the right thing.”.
“Companies should be seeing this as a massive opportunity in shaping themselves,” Johnston says, “positioning themselves to see it as a benefit and not saying: ‘I hope this passes me by and I can avoid making some of the big shifts.’”.
Marks reiterates that the shift to industrialised construction is going to take everyone’s involvement.Discover his unique perspectives on how we can collectively contribute to a more purposeful and rewarding future..
Professor John Dyson spent more than 25 years at GlaxoSmithKline, eventually ending his career as VP, Head of Capital Strategy and Design, where he focussed on developing a long-term strategic approach to asset management..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.Our latest video from Head of Global Systems,.