The UK's 'primate city' structure, where investment gravitates towards London, also complicates the effective distribution of support and infrastructure for these regional hubs.. 4.
So what does this mean in the world of projects?It means ensuring that the purpose, aspiration and hope for the project is kept alive.
In practical terms a problem statement and value drivers help this.In hospitals, these should be about health improvement, in pharmaceuticals about patients treated or lives saved, in housing about thriving people..It means visualising in a way which communicates both something aspirational while at the same time something with a playful vagueness about it.
We used to block units of operations out in bright colours, using pink to designate an area that was only loosely defined..It means a culture of inclusivity; anybody can have an idea, in fact, those not constrained by having been involved in a subject for many years, often ask the best questions and come up with more innovative ideas.
Matching this creativity with open-minded expert knowledge can be very powerful..
Above all it means jointly resisting, as long as is responsibly possible, narrowing to a defined solution and only then when it is very clear it matches up to the fundamental purpose and the highest aspirations.The reliance of traditional construction on variable quality of workmanship/skill of the site operative makes it difficult to guarantee that what was drawn and specified is actually what is installed..
The design of platform interfaces is so accurate it reduces reliance on skilled trades and workmanship and provides a visual and straightforward Quality Assurance process, for greater consistency and accuracy:.The manufactured brackets that create the interfaces between beams and columns use very simple standardise tasks (bolted together vs requiring specialist steel erectors) ensuring a level of consistency normally unachievable in traditional construction..
Brackets are designed in a way that they can only be installed correctly (referred to as ‘poka-yoke’ in manufacturing) making it impossible for an error to occur or making the error immediately obvious.In addition, the brackets are colour coded, with each colour relating to a specific condition, e.g.
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