Available to purchase at.Design to Value in the Built Realm..

These ideas are part of leadership but I believe leadership needs to go further than influence.The ambition needs to link the influence with the capability and energy to deliver..

When my son was in Junior school as part of a project, we did a historic walk around my hometown, Newbury.I remember vividly reading about a workshop, just behind the Methodist Church, which during the Second World War was used to make components for the eponymous Spitfire.Just a small reminder of the scale and organisation required to help us defeat what seemed an unbeatable enemy.

The ingenuity, the leadership, the ambition, the delivery..In our Design to Value approach, we have found that it is not enough to come up with a great conceptual design which in principle delivers great value.

Without the maintenance of the energy and ambition which delivered the design, the value can simply be frittered away.

You must take up the mantle and do things you have not done before, engage with people not engaged with before; like a carpentry workshop making aircraft parts.How to develop the expertise and constraints of the supply chain, including integrators to get them “on the curve”!.

How to find outlets for waste heat.How to deal with fragmentation across Europe in regulations/standards.

How to deliver value across the board within service level agreements..Plenty for the group to discuss and action when it meets again later this year..