F1 – Methodology

The most critical issue in the methodology (Chapter B) is understanding the differences and thinking about what infrastructure means for high- and low-income territories and how these differences are interpreted during specific projects' preparation, implementation, and operation. Chapters A to E follow the optimistic view that the core methodology of infrastructure projects (their technical and organizational principles) is the same. It assumes that the project's process (procedure) is tied to its structure (function), not the demand for its subject, size, and space-time.

Nevertheless, significant differences in the soft measures (influences) that directly attack the core of the project methodology cannot be neglected. These are primarily legal, educational, professional, and other frameworks, different business practices in dealing with projects, and limits for the local community (in finance, capital, investment, and banking services). These are the primary impulses to solve the differences in the worldwide preparation, implementation, and use of completed projects.

More details emerge when we focus on financial interventions in the environment of the infrastructure of low-income provinces in which the SPC Concept is growing. It works with the assumption of a unified project methodology and various soft measures (influencers). It solves its operations by the synergy of data in the assignment of instructions according to SPC Drivers via apps of algorithms of the SPC Utility services.

The pragmatism of this path lies in the steps from the simplest to the most complex, in the lesson that small professional results are more valuable than large ones with elusive results and hard-to-correct mistakes. It is based on the knowledge that the fewer Influencers we meet on this journey, the more time we get for ourselves and self-improvement.

In other words, this means that project management (PM) is a universal "umbrella" of current project preparation and implementation methodologies. It indicates To-Be for integration processes, unifying and simplifying project algorithms, etc. It opens a challenge to how the methodology of projects will lead projects in transforming responsibility for results from a human-human relationship to a human-machine relationship indicated in Figure Dx.1 and Figure Dx.2. Sets of photos in subsection F4 intimate the state at the beginning of this path. 

Two main directions follow this path. The first targets SHIFT process integrity in infrastructure cycles. From planning, construction, maintenance, and reconstruction to the involvement of existing infrastructure in new functions or final disposal. The second aims at SHIFT in the quality of linking Self-Powered Community projects with other SED, DRR, and HA projects that enter life in the province, digital support transformation with a potential to change the behavior and thinking of residents in situ.

Chapter E aims to bring the SPC Concert to a reality of the infrastructure need in low-income provinces using two filters, A and B, according to Chapter D, Figure Dx3, below:

Figure Dx.3 Filters A and B for the SED, DRR, and HA projects and offset options

 

Filter A covers the broad spectrum of projects passing through the current needs and demands of the present world. Projects are divided into three groups, SED, DRR, and HA. Filter B accepts any projects after filter A. It is about projects that have the potential to be prepared and implemented via SPC Concept rules for the SPC Utility and SPC Divers operations.

Figure Dx3 offers more interfaces; for example, reactions on direct foreign investment or any big project initiated by the central government. To the SPC project's package remain many options to penetrate "white" places with great potential to support local safety and development. 

It is a challenge how to complement offset's inputs and outputs in and out of project phases under the responsibility of a "Local Masterplan" or any other document relating to the local demands (more detailed comments to Figure Dx4.b see in Chapter D or F4, including the two options of the Offsets outputs and inputs). 

For faster reading of the following text, the web reader will find below a reminder of some used terms split into three groups: 

  • F1a Projects SED, DRR, and HA projects. 

  • F1b SPC Concept, Utility, and Drivers.

  • F1c SPC Drivers' structure (by items) and Table E1.

F1a SED, DRR, and HA projects

  • SED (Social and Economy development)

    If an economic development model (ED) is under the building, a social development (SD) cannot stay beside it. Therefore, today (in deepening globalization), it only makes sense to talk about social and economic development (SED). It is one joint sustainable development and security. The modern age brings this value between the current and post-industrial stages. It covers the critical tasks of the UN (by Wikipedia): 1. Stopping wars; 2. Opening business opportunities; 4. Facilitating innovation; 5. Collaboration on research and development (R&D) for SED, DRR, and HA projects.

  • DRR (Disaster Risk Reduction)

    When economic development (ED) and social development (SD) models have a small (fuzzy) interface, the growing risks and missing synergy cannot be overlooked. Therefore, deepening globalization makes sense to talk only about social and economic development (SED), which has a link to the risks of disasters around us. It is one joint and sustainable approach to development and security. 

    The frequency, quality, and spread of disaster monitoring (e.g., local and global climate change impacts) grow. In parallel, the threats of catastrophic human conflicts are increasing as well. Therefore, logically the demand for adequate quality and frequency of the measures provided by the DRR projects is growing too. The goal should be to integrate the SED, and DRR approaches to project preparation and implementation and use standard algorithms to standardize these projects further. 

  • HA (Humanitarian Aid)

    Humanitarian aid is material and logistical assistance to people and Nature, living and non-living subjects, and objects that need immediate help. It is usually short-term assistance that, if structured correctly in advance (according to general algorithms for project preparation and implementation), can enrich the know-how of DRR projects and bring important lessons to the preparation and implementation of SED projects. 

F1b SPC Concept, Utility and Drivers

  • SPC Concept

    Chapter E helps create an image of how the SPC Concept projects can be positioned worldwide in the environments of investment projects on the UN, National, and Provincial levels, urban, peri-urban, and rural areas. For web readers, it can create questions about the potential to address banking, governing, consulting, NGO, and philanthropist sectors. 

    Or otherwise, what type of added value and how can it be added via the SPC Concept projects to the change of low-income provinces worldwide? There are two tools, SWOT and BOCR analysis, on the desk. They can generate answers and be presented based on the content of Geneses and References in this Webbook very simply. 

  • SPC Utility

    The sub-chapter D will explore the potential of SPC Utility services. It will be concerned with revitalizing (resuscitating) people's thinking and behavior for their entry into Global Digital Transformation (GDT) project preparation and implementation initiatives. This approach will help reveal how to make the Human (a partner in the GT environment) an active and vigorous representative of the administration of his/her existence. 

    The aim is not to fall into a philosophical discussion but introduce the principal issue on specific cases of how to succeed; in initiating Self-Powered initiatives. It can look like an incredibly complicated theoretical work. But the opposite is true. The focus on the low-income provinces and the demonstration of understandable examples will prove this approach's feasibility and value. 

  • SPC Drivers

    The sub-chapter E will explore the SPC Drivers' contribution to the effectiveness and sustainability of the SPC Utility services. SPC Drivers are about steps forward and priorities forming the success of any SPC Utility services. SPC Drivers are arranged in a matrix frame. Horizontally divided into five sectors (Sources, Services, Production, Freedom, and Finance) and vertically into four groups of drivers with five elements each (in total twenty items). For more, please see below.

F1c SPC Five groups of the SPC Drivers

  • WEMAF

    Primary drivers of WEMAF are water (W), electricity (E), material (M), and atmosphere (A). The content of these classical (core) antique components reflects Aristotle's statement, "When something has no owner, nobody cares about anything." So, the SPC Concept gained the justification to add another element, finance (F), without which the life of present generations could not exist. (W) means access to drinking water, and (E) access to electricity gained from renewable sources. (A) has two positions in the same environment. The first is the Freedom to live and breathe. The second is more comprehensive; it is the atmosphere functions. (F) was explained above.

  • HEDEC

    Derived drivers of HEDEC are Health (He), education (Ed), disaster (Di), environment (En), and capital (Ca). For any live object, it means access to the value of health, the usefulness of education, the position to partner in a disaster, and understanding how capital is essential for human sustainability in the GT environment.

  • FJTMI

    Derived drivers FJTMI are Food (Fu), job skills (Js), things (Th), mobility (Mo), and investment (In). Similarly, any live object needs food, needs skills for jobs to have many things on hand in the mobility environment of his/her investment plans in the urban, peri-urban, and rural areas worldwide.

  • SBRVB

    Derived drivers SBRVB are Soil (So), biomass (Bi), housing (HO), resilience (Re), and banking (Ba). Also, here, any live object needs soil to live. On soil (Earth, ground) exist biomass (in any live or buried forms), and they must have housing somewhere and take care of his/her resilience. Innovative banking integrates access to finance, helps build capital, and opens investment opportunities.