Felix Bergstrom / Chief Technology Officer
Perspectives from a life in leadership.
The latest essay
Long infrastructure contracts tempt owners to buy technology for the life of the asset. I argue for separating systems by their real lifetimes, owning the interfaces between them and planning the final replacement around handback.
Read the essayLong infrastructure contracts tempt owners to buy technology for the life of the asset. I argue for separating systems by their real lifetimes, owning the interfaces between them and planning the final replacement around handback.
Image-based defect detection is useful on a motorway network when it decides where inspectors look first. I argue for measuring what it misses, keeping the signature with the engineer and distrusting accuracy figures that hide the base rate.
A road operator's sustainability report can blend metered electricity with modelled traffic emissions. I argue for measuring our own consumption properly first, keeping measured and modelled figures apart, and setting targets only on what we control.