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People on ground floors in largely empty offices may feel particularly vulnerable to intruders, for example.

It’s a tough thing to do, we all wear our own symbolic robes and masks, those which we hope will keep us safe by hiding our true selves.The more we can divest of these, the better we can work together.. My thinking took this metaphor a stage further.

While we are stripping things down, let’s tear down the importance we place upon the physical.While there is undoubted value in the aesthetic and power in iconic objects and structures, in the end true value comes from the people within.We can become obsessed by the physical, by the building.

I have observed many times that we have a great tendency to grasp too early for the physicality of buildings - I need a factory, a hospital, a data centre etc - when they are just labels for the human and human-created activities within.Design to Value.

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“What if we look past the hospital building and see the journeys of a thousand patients, past the factory and reflect upon the launch of a lifesaving treatment, past the data centre and muse upon millions of connected people.”.This creates a natural inertia away from any transformation of technology or approach.. Capital governance processes skew decision-making and inhibit the new..

Significant investment approvals come to senior executives who rightly ask many difficult questions, while they may mistakenly expect and demand certainty.The demands and difficulties in getting through these governance processes drive both a false optimism in justifying product demand and drive the scale of the investment; “this is our one chance, so go with what we know and go big!”.

The resources needed for change (above the day-to-day).Changing platform technology could place additional demands on operations above and beyond those of securing ongoing supply and product transfer..