Pharma’s Conundrum Part 2: Ensuring Value Through Integrated Project Delivery

Marks says that her job at Autodesk is to help people envision what that future could be by taking the current building blocks and foundational pieces and expanding on them.

This project looked at delivering a new technology to the company in a new and radical way.Although the core ideas had been established, the next question was how this concept would be physicalised in a way that preserved and enhanced its potential value, in a business, like all, with multiple levels of moving parts..

The standard way of scheduling such a study simply results in stress for those doing the work and/or the project manager.Scheduling an organic integration is like trying to Christmas-wrap a puppy.We firstly looked to use a critical chain approach to planning, which naturally allows for flexibility in the schedule.

The ideas were helpful and certainly better fit the real world.Combined with the concepts of “Focus and Finish” rather than “Meet the commitments” it provided a better collaborative and coordinated approach.. What we realised though was that there were parts of the schedule which were even more organic than buffers or “Focus and finish” could accommodate.

We therefore striated our schedule into four layers:.

Integration of scope and design and delivery process.The former focuses on ownership of the whole integration chain, the whole vertical delivery model.

In this instance, a player owns the factories and designs, pushing out what’s required for the kit-of-parts to consultants, and achieving an output that way.On the other hand, some contractors don’t want to tell others how to innovate and would prefer to let the innovation ride.

They’re looking for ways to bring all of that information together digitally, aiming to get the best out of the innovative companies who are pursuing ways to be smarter all of the time.. Will geography limit DfMA in Australia?.In terms of Australia’s vast size potentially impacting on DfMA advancement, in actuality, 90% of the population live on the east coast.