A $12 trillion global industry Despite being a roughly $12 trillion global industry, construction productivity has barely moved. Since 2000, productivity has improved by around 10% in total. Over the same period, manufacturing has improved by closer to 90%. At the same time, demand for infrastructure, housing, and energy transition assets continues to accelerate. The result is not a mild inefficiency. It is a structural gap. McKinsey & Company estimates that, at current traje

Ahh! The wildly misleading innovation theatre. Be WARNED! It makes sense though, what is exciting & motivating in the approvals office might not be so great in our business as usual (BAU)… or as I sharply say, what looks good on a LinkedIn feed often is straight out silly on a site! My go to example is the back-flipping robot that standing on a scaffold & is simultaneously throwing a tool kit at a human co-worker (seriously, google it, you’ll find the video from a reputable r

There is a deep disconnect between the emerging tech shepherds & those that could benefit from the use of the emerging tech that runs deep in the BAU of our heavy industries. The harsh (and all to often impossible for the office folk to accept) reality is (and strap in for a controversial point): → Not every computer on a site or in a plant is even connected. In fact, There are many plants that generate $300M+ annually that I have first hand been to that simply do NOT have a

Here’s what they don’t seem to get. No one cares & the more words the less meaning. I am sure that you have seen those emails, notes, pitches, presentations, memos, etc where the author has decided that you need to know their life story, every possible thought, every bit of context, every possible nuance to ever possible bit of related info. Winston Churchill, Mark Twain, Blaise Pascal, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Pliny the Younger, Cato, Cicero, Bill Clinton, Benjamin Frankl

A Gemini rendition of many a room that I have pitched to! No brainer?… No brains?… a stumble to nowhere! There is an invisible wall holding you back, that’s real! There is also a way to get past it! But first, let’s dive into what’s driving it. The basic emotions Psych 101 time! Psychologists often describe six basic human emotions that appear across cultures: happiness, sadness, fear, anger, surprise, and disgust , a framework popularised by Paul Ekman (google him, maybe gr

Why is it that some of the most promising academic projects and emerging tech startups seem to fail when hit with the cold water of reality? There is a gap, a misalignment of goals, a failure to communicate, something… I think it is because the best solution in the eyes of the idealistic creator is often not adoptable into the business as usual of the potential user business. As I talk about in my post The challenge isn’t technical . I completely get it, my VERY technical bac