Reply To: Digital Twin Blockers – Your Priorities Please

On 20/10/2021 at 11:46, Deeyesbee said:

Thanks DW. Very interesting additions.   Am I right in thinking that you have identified two new blockers as follows:

1. Misalignment of public procurement methods (with what please? – see below) 

2. Lack of collaborative problem definition. Yes, although this is often easily resolved.

Thanks!

David

There are a number of examples of misalignment of public procurement and innovation projects

1)      SaaS business models pose problems for public sector CAPEX/OPEX financial budgeting

2)      Learning by ‘brilliant failure’ doesn’t sit comfortably in risk-averse cultures

3)      Procurement risk tends to favour tried & proven solutions and doesn’t promote the experimentation needed for successful innovation outcomes.

4)      Competitive tendering to obtain ‘best value’ makes innovation of new concepts and technology difficult.

5)      A view that new foreground IP and background IP used to develop the foreground should belong to the Purchaser.

6)      Data security and privacy concerns tend to be problematic in public-sector organisations. Cyber-security concerns often used as excuse for not engaging.

7)      Data quality often much worse than in equivalent industrial organisations, especially in asset intensive sectors where much of the asset infrastructure predates computer records.

😎      Lack of technical confidence necessary to judge the level of detail and compromise and relationship with risk. The ‘good enough for the problem we need to solve’ and ability to ‘start somewhere and see where it lleads’.

9)      Genuine systems complexity, especially in asset-centric organisations which lack the technical experience to take a Systems-thinking approach.

10)   Inadequate IT budgets and large desktop requirements which are not able to support modern browser technologies and security policies which exacerbate the problem.