Process engineering and Design to Value, Built Environment Matters podcast with John Dyson, Professor of Human Enterprise at the University of Birmingham
After that, she collaborated in the design and development of residential plots in Sugar House Island.. Having gathered experience in a variety of sectors, Cristina is currently the architect for the Front End Factory GSK Project, working with information of a sensitive nature.
We must like Tevye, flex, weigh things up and at times dispense completely with the way things were done.Guided by the value-we-can-create and the values-we-hold-to, we can constantly change the way we come together to find solutions to problems.
Being in the construction industry we can see how we can make playing the fiddle on the roof safe.. Maybe what we need to do is ask the fiddle player why they are there, what is their purpose and what do they need.The answers to these questions may open up a whole new level of understanding..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.Design to Value evolved gradually and intuitively – and holistically.
From designing the brief to considering how elements should be delivered on site to how best to engage the supply chain to how to repurpose existing technology – these things were always central to the Design to Value thinking, even before being labelled as such.. Design to Value purports that the front-end of the project needs to focus on developing data to support decision making at all stages of a meandering process – where each decision step is influenced by the one before.The pandemic has highlighted our ability to make large, successful shifts, and to do so very quickly.
Rather than resisting change out of fear of uncertainty, we should embrace it.Let’s use the uncertainty to fuel a change in our processes and find a better way of doing things.
Often it happens that opportunities have been with us all along, we were just too nervous to take them.Now we find that our risk has increased anyway, and so we really have nothing left to lose..