[Henry Fenby-Taylor]

Points to CDBB…https://www.cdbb.cam.ac.uk/files/gemini_how.pdf

In my view, the answer is, the closest we have is a plan to develop a plan (see above)

You can see in the image that there is an acknowledgement that there needs to be an interface…

A lot of the projects that I’m seeing as part of the Cyber Physical Infrastructure Review I’m undertaking are facing exactly these problems.

Access to data, business models for all involved, what to regulate and how. The only thing that seems clear to me is there is a supply chain hungry to deliver meaningful solutions, but that data holders and originators need to be correctly incentivised 🏑🥕

So Offshore Renewable Energy Systems are looking at an integrated operating model 

… there’s a lot, I’m creating some videos on them as we speak.

 

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at CDBB, our report on the start up space highlighted that companies at the ‘scale up’ phase were those that were being least well served, so this is well placed investment.

https://www.cdbb.cam.ac.uk/news/get-started-start-ups

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[Henry Fenby-Taylor]

The change from a waterfall to an agile methodology has got to be a hard sell for an organisation like the MoD. Is iterating scenarios helping bridge that uncertainty? 

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I saw that article, so good! 

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@Timothy

Here’s the paper:

 https://www.cdbb.cam.ac.uk/news/publication-deepdish-multi-object-tracking-shelf-raspberry-pi 

Here’s the code:

https://github.com/AdaptiveCity/deepdish

 

[Henry Fenby-Taylor]

What did you think of the episode @Humanner ? We spoke to someone who is quite sceptical about the possibility of social reform through digital twins. 

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Thanks both, I think that’s exactly right, tracing the lifecycle of an information requirement through this process gives it a clear rationale. I think it would be interesting to see the information management landscape within an organisation. To your point 1 and 2 @Matthew where these information flows might be consistent, one off or variable. I think this is about control, where a client has a strong asset base they will certainly be able to define these processes and even understand their organisation better as a result.

On 15/07/2021 at 10:19, Matthew West said:

@HenryFT Yes, having information you do not need is a cost without benefit, and not having information you do need means a higher risk of mistakes or exposure to legal consequences from not having the information.

When you look at the benefits  these start with the converse of the costs of poor quality information.

1.       You will be able to automate deterministic processes (the boring ones) because relevant information is held as data.

2.       You will just be able to use the information provided to you, rather than having to fix it up, condition, or wrangle the data before you can use it.

3.       The risk of making mistakes will be reduced because you had the information you needed to take the right decision when you needed it.

4.       In addition to the elimination of negatives, which all go straight to the bottom line by improving productivity, there are some purely positive benefits of good information management (see Figure 2).

5.       You will have greater agility because rather than responding to changes in circumstances, you will be able to anticipate them and pivot to take advantage of them rather than being overwhelmed by them.

6.       You will have better insights into your operations and assets and this will enable innovation that comes from being able to spot new opportunities.

7.       You have the confidence that comes from knowing you are in good shape, rather than hoping you are.

Yes I think there’s a key quality and quantity overlap here. The greater the quantity of information the harder it’s going to be to retain high quality information so asking those sorts of questions makes a lot of sense.

On 15/07/2021 at 10:16, Al_ said:

Hi Henry, Recognising that there is value in having data at the right quality is important.  Good quality management practices should be applied, including identifying key performance indicators on how well the information management practices are performing (Plan, Do, Check, Act cycle).  It can be very hard to measure the value of data that is not at the right quality, although it is possible to look at issues resulting from it (this can provide some motivation for addressing data quality in the first place).  However, once you know what your requirements are, and what it takes to meet them, it is also good practice to look at what improvements are expected as a result of doing this and determine metrics.  Continuous improvement is then built in to the information management lifecycle and matched to the lifecycle of the assets that require the information to be managed well.

 

[Henry Fenby-Taylor]

Information Requirements are clearly key to unlocking value (of all kinds)in the lifecycle of assets. @Al_ and @Matthew I think the spatiotemporal approach in the space time diagram is a great idea. 

How do you think we can trace value but specifically for this question the return on investment from Information Requirements development? How important do you think it is to do that?

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🧐 glad to have you here! There are lots of resources you can look at, but with someone of your skills it would be interesting to know what you have found out in your research so far

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That sounds like an excellent suggestion Dave, thanks for sharing.

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Hi Seren, there has been a lot done in the Water utilities space that I know about. Working from the water catchment all the way down through the complex network of pumps and down to the treatment works is a perfect use case for digital twins. Anglian Water and Welsh Water are the two water utilities that I know the most about and could put you in touch with someone.

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Thanks for sharing @Peter I always love a tree based analogy.. especially an Oak based analogy!

[Henry Fenby-Taylor]

I was just writing an elevator pitch for information management which I’m still crafting. I, being me, went online to find some interesting guidance on this. 

Is it intended as a script? Is it something that you tell someone in an actual elevator, or around a table at a board meeting?

My focus has been on being brief, using language the listener understands, addressing a need and providing clear measurable benefit.

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We have a memorandum of understanding with Tech UK who represent the sector. https://www.techuk.org/ . They represent the large firms, but the smaller ones as well. I’d be happy to organise an introduction.

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I was curious about the answer to this so I did some digging.  The UK gov digital marketplace does seem to have some interesting leads

I tried some searches: 

https://www.digitalmarketplace.service.gov.uk/g-cloud/search?q=facilities management

https://www.digitalmarketplace.service.gov.uk/g-cloud/search?q=estates management&resellingType=not_reseller

It seems there are quite a lot of solutions out there, adding the ‘not reseller’ filter created an interesting snapshot.

My view is that there are consultants out there who have seemingly developed software that is utilised as part of their service, there are some niche pieces of software and quite a number of people offering configuration of the larger solutions you mentioned at the start.

Personally I stopped looking after page 2!