Imrecon

Ian Rowson has been involved in the design of regimes since a secondment to the UK Government in the early 1990s (developing options for the financial and economic framework for the restructured water industry in Scotland).

Model & measure

Imrecon's approach to design is informed by experience of modelling processes and diagnosing their effectiveness.  Whether it is designing a regulatory mechanism, a price control formula, contract or licence terms or a routemap for the introduction of competition, Imrecon's instincts are to model and measure the effectiveness of any design, understand the dynamics of it and be guided to elegant structures engineered to meet the objectives.

Imrecon looks for elegance, simplicity, symmetry, structures that reflect the inherent structure of the problem being solved, evolution rather than revolution, robustness, maintainability and acceptability.

Judgements & choices

Imrecon is alive to the fact that design choices are informed not only by measures of effectiveness and the stucture of the problem being solved, but also by judgements and priorities.  Any proposed solution carries with it those choices, and an important part of the process is identifying what those judgements are, making them fully transparent and ensuring they are validated through impact assessment and consultation.