Podcast: Systems Thinking, Systems Leading (Episode 1 and 2)

Summary

This two-part podcast draws on the ideas and insight generated at the Association seminar on Systems Thinking in September 2022.

Podcast Part One

“As projects become more complex, their success or failure is increasingly determined by the interactions between new and pre-existing natural, built and digital systems, and the critical role of people in making these interactions work. As such, project outputs should not be viewed in isolation but as part of a system of systems”. 

In the first of this two-part podcast, based on the Major Project Association seminar ‘Systems Thinking, Systems Leading’, Andy Murray interviews Mark Wild, ex-CEO of Crossrail and now Chief Executive at SGN and Michele Dix, previously Head of Crossrail 2, and now a Non-Executive Director at the Association.

Podcast Part Two: The HyNet North West Case Study

In the second of this two-part podcast, based on the Major Project Association seminar ‘Systems Thinking, Systems Leading’, Andy Murray interviews David Parkin, Project Director of HyNet North West who gives an insight into how one enterprise has sought to manage the system complexity that comes with the challenge of decarbonisation. HyNet is not a legal entity, but rather a collaboration through which the partners are seeking to break the link between wealth generation and carbon emissions in the UK’s industrial hub of North West England.