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.
demonstrator projects’.that will prove how innovation can transform construction..
This is a landmark moment.But it is also the latest chapter in a long story of Government-led collaborations with private sector clients and a new kind of supply chain, resulting in real progress and real, tangible outcomes, which benefit both private and public sectors..It is this kind of sustained, intelligent and joined-up collaborative approach that will bring about sector-wide positive change.
Government should be applauded for this consistent direction of travel, and it’s worth recounting the linked pieces of work that predate this latest announcement..The development of Platforms started back in 2016, when the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) appointed us to develop a new type of prison, focused on rehabilitative outcomes for prisoners.
One aspect of the project was to maximise the use of DfMA and set a new benchmark for public sector adoption.
It soon became apparent that systems developed for the MOJ (whose estate includes education, healthcare, offices, sports halls and workshops) would also be appropriate for the wider public sector..If we shoot for the moon and get into orbit we have done well enough.. Secondly, there will be direct antagonism in the value sought by each delivery organisation, the parties will not be aligned in value drivers.. Open discussions and agreements need to be had about what value means firstly for the intent of the endeavour e.g.
patients looking for access to medicines; secondly for the party who own the endeavour e.g.profitability of the client; and, often missed, the parties who will deliver the endeavour with the client.
These different measures of value need to be expressed not so narrowly as purely financial e.g.margin and profit; but expansively including kudos and marketing from the work, with larger social and environmental impacts important to each organisation and the wellbeing, growth and development of the people involved.. Providing such a web of value interconnects and energises the whole project community into the generation of shared value..