The Dyson blog: Design to Value and the Environmental Emergency
Operational benefits.
“The team paid attention to creating a ‘can do’ attitude and culture whilst implementing accelerated delivery tools,” said the FOYA Judging Panel.“As a result, GSK and ViiV Healthcare ensured the continuity of supply of Fostemsavir for clinical trials.”.
The common thread: Design to Value.Although the two projects are quite different, the underlying principles of our responses are the same.. Design to Value.is our unifying approach to finding the most efficient route to the optimal solution by analysing and understanding every facet of a problem..
In both projects we took a methodical approach to building a thorough understanding of the process, breaking it down into its component parts, considering these from every angle and configuring them in the optimal way to meet the project’s unique challenges: supplying a new life-saving drug in the shortest time possible, or delivering a best-in-class API plant on time and budget during a pandemic..Both the Parma Attachment Inhibitor and Singapore API Plant were highly complex projects with many stakeholders and technical challenges to overcome.
Collaboration and engagement with the client in an open, exploratory way was critical to managing this complexity.. Much contemporary design practice seeks to reduce complexity through specialisation –fragmenting responsibility until nobody has a clear view of the whole.
Our approach was to embrace this complexity, viewing it through the lens of value drivers to find and bridge the gap between the existing and desired state.. As explained in our book.This shift forces data centre developers to adjust their strategies.
As Lincoln puts it:.‘I’m in conversations all the time, whether or not it’s a new client that’s asking for, you know, 100 plus KW per rack… it’s pushing us to innovate pretty hard.’.
More powerful servers mean that traditional air cooling can become inadequate.Lincoln suggests that the move towards alternative cooling methods - like liquid cooling - must balance innovation with the reliability needed to maintain near-perfect uptime.