Weight on upfront design is made viable by the digitised process: automated design and updates speed up the process and have delivery ‘built in’..

This initial representation allows us to agree what kind of expertise we require to develop a solution.For a prison design, that might mean that we need to understand how guards and social workers do their jobs.

For a pharmaceutical plant, it might mean we need a specialist in oral solid dose manufacturing, a quality representative and a health and safety specialist.. Based on this initial representation, we can start gathering the knowledge and data that is essential for developing a solution.We use this input to create a comprehensive and holistic model of the problem and the outline solution.We call this process Chip Thinking®️.

It allows us to generate outputs about its performance under different conditions..This is a powerful picture that allows all stakeholders to understand the problem and come up with creative ideas in a structured way that take into account what others know, while focusing on aspects that matter to achieve a successful solution.

Jointly they can then decide what to do next.

Do we need better data or knowledge about a certain aspect?Many of the deliverables (3.)

could be sequenced traditionally and could be tracked.The trick was that as far as possible they should be de-linked from Integration Strategy E.g.

the fundamentals of a process P&ID or a Functional Specification are not linked to the scale of the process or its capacity..The coordination of key interactions (4.)