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The UK suffers from a widely recognised lack of productivity, and a low uptake of AI and robotics in SMEs..There's a perceived 'malaise' where society needs to reappraise its relationship with work and effort relative to desired per capita income, moving beyond merely changing environmental conditions to actively fostering growth.. 5.

Compelling Vision and Clear Measures are Needed to Engage and Drive Change:.The strategy lacks a clear, compelling vision and visual representation of what the UK could be, making it difficult to engage a wider audience beyond policy circles.. Establishing a single, understandable measure like GDP per person could provide a clear objective, showing how economic growth directly funds essential services like the NHS.. Watch Navigating the Energy Debate: Challenges and Solutions with Martin Wood, Adrian La Porta and John Dyson.on scale took me on a journey from Mitochondria.the microscopic batteries of life.

to railways and.This blog will focus on the latter and particularly with the size and scale of unit operations in production plants.

I will reiterate here that I remain highly curious that most economic discussions focus on economies of scale and thus constantly encourage scale increase and growth.

T. hey talk little about the diseconomies of scale.By fracturing the design process, traditional approaches to design and construction make room for ballooned budgets (being over budget is a built-in assumption at this point), rushed decision making, sacrificed ethics and injurious miscommunication and lack of trust.

Design to Value embraces complexity, acknowledging the complementary nature of ‘value drivers’: the financial, aesthetic, socio-environmental and processual.Rather than breaking down the design process into discrete, rigid steps, Design to Value seeks nuance and the space for innovation in the layers of each project.

Keeping a project and all its elements together is, however, complex – but not complicated.The complexities, interactions and patterns reveal the essence of every project – they tell the stories of where value actually lies.