Reply To: Gemini Call Q&A Thread, Tuesday 1 March 2022

[David Simoes-Brown]

On 03/03/2022 at 12:30, Mark Enzer said:

A question for the Gemini people: who is up for doing what 100% Open recommend?

thanks @Mark Enzer. Here is the link to the poll directed to the whole community to tell us what the TOP THREE actions should be. 

Recommendations posted here for convenience. 

1. Form a digital twin accelerator programme. The DT Hub would benefit from moving from ‘open sharing’ to ‘active collaboration’, therefore seeking or pooling resources for practical programmes on individual blockers. This would seed an Accelerator programme that encompasses all the elements of Open Innovation Challenges – a challenge platform, prize challenges, hackathons, investments, and commercialisation/scale-up services.  
2. Review the online community platform. The DT Hub has significant value for its membership, its unique selling point being a domain focused on digital twins and the built environment while overlapping with most other sectors. The platform itself has clearly developed organically to the extent that navigation is compromised and some members do not appear to be aware of the resources contained within it. A platform service design programme is recommended, with the resulting blueprint used to redesign the platform and community to incorporate better collaboration capabilities.
3. Leverage the convening power of the DT Hub for engagement with others. With over 3,000 members, the DT Hub is at the centre of a powerful network of common interest. There is potential to engage and partner with other public bodies and companies as the ‘digital twin ally’.  
4. Lead on the development of vision and value for digital twins. As this is the key problem space, CDBB and the DT Hub would provide value to the community and DT digital twin sector in creating deeper insight and practical techniques for creating a vision for digital twins. 
5. Evaluate and progress the Strategy Jam ideas. The ideation process generated 192 ideas across the problem spaces, with Readiness, Data Issues, and Governance and Guidance generating the most ideas. Those ideas are ready to be evaluated and progressed. In terms of the selection of future collaborative innovation projects, it is recommended to both play to strengths and to address weaknesses. The project selection criteria need to be transparently agreed in advance. 
6. Introduce a problem-solving toolkit. There is an opportunity to create a tangible and useful product to help members overcome digital twin blockers, widening the scope of the existing Digital Twin Toolkit. 
7. Conduct a meta-analysis. There is further information to be gained from comparing this research with other findings and DT Hub resources. A Gap Analysis would review the content and outputs of three years of previous research and map any existing blocker solutions. A Dynamic Analysis would compare this research with results from previous workshops.