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Infrastructure meets Business: Building new Bridges, Mending Old Ones

Infrastructure meets Business: Building new Bridges, Mending Old Ones. Nuno Gil. Nuno Gil, nuno.gil@mbs.ac.uk , AoM Chicago 2009. Putting the PDW in perspective.

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Infrastructure meets Business: Building new Bridges, Mending Old Ones

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  1. Infrastructure meets Business: Building new Bridges, Mending Old Ones Nuno Gil Nuno Gil, nuno.gil@mbs.ac.uk , AoM Chicago 2009

  2. Putting the PDW in perspective

  3. Complex, but fascinating empirical setting • Basic facilities on which continuance and growth of communities and states depend, e.g., transportation systems (airports, roads, waterworks), utilities (gas, water, power), social assets (hospitals, schools, prisons) • Ensuring everyone can access these services at affordable costs is necessary to protect equity and public welfare • Neo-liberalism ideology + pragmatism (cash-constrained state budgets) + demand for infrastructure => new infrastructure development and operations becomes a (regulated) business • privatization of state-owned firms • private finance initiatives • public-private partnerships

  4. Conceptual class on its own right? • Infrastructure assets, a subset of Complex Products and Systems (CoPS) • New assets delivered through capital-, IT-, engineering-intensive projects/programmes • High heterogeneity in stakeholder input from developer (client), suppliers, institutional customers, public agencies, local communities, often engaged in symbiotic relationships • High heterogeneity of outputs from one-off projects, frequently irreversible once initiated • Assets create natural monopolies that can be hard to contest: low competitive intensity • Low competitive intensity+ high heterogeneity of inputs/outputs => inertia to move from complex integral architectures (w/wo built-in allowances) towards modular architectures (hybrid at best!) • Affordability issues can compromise operational longevity under uncertainty

  5. PDW Architecture • Roundtable I: Institutional Developments , Industry Response  (1.50 -3 pm) • Young Kwak, The George Washington University • Jochen Markard/Hagen Worch, Cirus - Innovation Research in Utility Sectors, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology • Dennis Lorenzin, Head of Global Project Management, Nokia-Siemens Networks • Glenn Ballard, Research Director, Project Production Systems Lab, UC Berkeley • Coffee break (3-3.20pm) • Roundtable II: Relevance of Research Developments to Practice (3.20-4.15pm) • Donald Lessard, MIT Sloan School of Management • Graham Winch, Manchester Business School • Andrew Davies, Imperial College Business School • Brain break (5 min) • Challenges, opportunities for taking infrastructure as empirical context (4.20-5pm) • Carliss Baldwin, Harvard Business School • Michael Jacobides, London Business School

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