Episode #2 - Jerker Lessing

January 17, 2024

Timestamps

  • 0:00 - Jerker's academic background
  • 11:50 - Jerker’s career path
  • 17:36 - The BoKlok story
  • 23:30 - What is industrialized construction?
  • 25:31 - Industrialized construction vs. traditional construction
  • 34:30 - The “8+1 Method” described in Jerker’s Thesis
  • 41:00 - Assessing companies by using the 8+1 method
  • 44:48 - The outside-in vs. the inside-out perspective
  • 50:36 - The correlation between industrialized construction and car manufacturing Comment end
  • 1:01:49 - Additional Information
  • 1:02:31 - Outro

Episode Summary

In this episode, we had the pleasure of hosting Jerker Lessing, who earned a Ph.D. from Lund University in Sweden, is an adjunct professor at Stanford, and works as an independent advisor and consultant within the industrial construction industry.

Our conversation delved into the transformative realm of industrialized construction, Jerker's thesis and dissertation, and his previous work as the Director of Research and Development at BoKlok.

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