Vlognotes#8 Weeknotes S3 Eps 8 Economic Recovery, GCLP Digital & Social Value…
So breakdown of my key three reflections for this week:
So breakdown of my key three reflections for this week:
I’ve tweaked a little bit so the vlog is down the bottom and added a bit more written narrative for those getting bored of watching me ramble.
Meeting with Rob and Guy from Grant Thornton around a #ThinkPiece for future economic challenges;
- Early thinking and emerging evidence would be best applied in considering interventions around cross skilling and monitoring ‘bottom up’ innovation where this is already manifesting through early entrepreneurship — this could have the most immediate impact on economic and social recovery, but also shift market diversification and positive changes.
- Reskilling and cross skilling will be critical for those more vulnerable especially in lower skilled sectors.
- Supply chain failure will be a serious issue for next year especially in SMEs within core economic industries eg construction industry, impact on house building/brexit/materials/supply.
- Other specialist skills — eg shortage to meet zero carbon agenda, recent green grants did not consider the depth/availability of skills to actually deliver this (although clearly is an are of opportunity for cross/reskilling those in vulnerable sectors) — this also could translate across to diversification for entrepreneurial business which could be supported.
- C19 behavioural change especially in relation to movement to/from urban work locations. Does this have opportunity to shift to hyper local economic development eg home working, need for suburban/village office hub space — impact on land use requirements, impact on city/town centres.
- The ABSOLUTE need to this to be a catalyst to use live data in how we plan.
Meet up with our little GCLP Digital Plan team Tom, Hana, Marco, Tim, Sam to develop the emerging PID and Pilot on geospatial platform suitability (see call for opinions on Slack API.)
We discussed;
- Open Source versus corporate mapping
- Differentiating Geospatial data/Semantics data
- How do we think of policies as simple rules
- Semantic order of policies in plans, currently this is not user designed and needs a lot user story/journey mapping. (i.e. the difference between Mr X looking for what policies apply to him replacing dormer windows on his listed cottage, to Agent Y needing to understand affordable housing policy for a 150 home urban extension).
- Policy chunking into clear data
- Legacy policies and how we start to break these up into binary rules based framework where possible (we know this will not be possible with everything)
- Overlaps with digital twin project and how this can align as we progress
Social Value in the Construction Industry. Great session courtesy of the Institute of Economic Development (IED) on Delivering Social Value in the Construction Sector. There's much to do in this space but the approach of pulling together a multidisciplinary centre of excellence is a fantastic starting point. Link to Phase 1 report here;
My key takeaways from the session;
- Need to focus not just on delivery (i.e. construction but also the full process from inception, through planning etc as this facilitates early conversations with communities to identify ‘actual’ needs in a locality
- Different ‘owners’ of procurement depending on the project. For example large scale infrastructure projects are owned and delivered by completely different organisations than local direct delivery housing
- Also profoundly different in community engagement processes as planning processes are different with National infrastructure/Highways/Plan led development. So need wide range of stakeholders and user journeys to map current process.
- Once construction contracts are procure this is sometimes ‘too late’ in the process to have meaningful outcomes in social value being driven by actual community need as it will be a more retro fit/tick box exercise .
- In addition construction companies will be at a different stage of maturity so some of the low hanging fruit e.g. schools visits etc might be a big deal for some if they’ve not done anything social value related previously. Showing these companies that there is even more they can do will be key to encourage innovation and a broader mindset.
- What tools and approaches should we be using developing to measure social value outcomes
- Visibility of existing community priorities (community charters to inform council procurement), social value insight data/information from Local Authorities — more than an overarching SV framework/policy
All have a great weekend…. Here’s the vlog;
No more election watching as that’s been the only other thing on my phone this week!!!