ATP powers muscle cell contraction, protein building, cell replication.. To go down a rabbit hole briefly, these fascinating organelles are the vestiges of ancient bacteria which somehow became intertwined with the larger eucaryote cells of animals and plants.
She’s as excited for them as she is for architects.. Marks recalls that while talking to the Head of VD&C for a large company, she was impressed with the work and incredible technology going into a two-billion-dollar hospital project.At the end of the presentation, she asked, “how much of this can you use for the next project?”.
The answer: “None of it.”.It’s not acceptable, she says, addressing the position of the serial owners who are building hospital after hospital, school after school.Owners who are spending billions of dollars.. “What owner in their right mind is going to spend money and not get consistency of any data,” she says, “to learn from, reuse and evolve, to be more operationally efficient?
How could that be acceptable?”.“We find the same thing”, says Jaimie Johnston.
“It's serial custo.
mers who are dissatisfied with either the quality they're getting or the value they're getting.”.If a construction partner finds a cheaper way to deliver a part of the project does that put holistic value at risk or maybe it allows investment elsewhere where more value can be delivered.. As design moves towards construction and beyond, an.
approach needs to ensure that all parties are doing the job that fits their capability best and decisions are made with a focus on delivering shared value, to client, the client’s customers, the widest project team and society.. Of course, the way the work is contracted needs to be aligned to sharing value, of which financial risks and opportunities play a significant role; but that is another story….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 a 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.