Archive for 'Innovative Product Development' Category
A Happier and Healthier New Year?
With the Season’s festivities now over, many people turn their thoughts to creating – and trying to stick to – a whole series of New Year resolutions… many of which are normally based around creating a happier and healthier year ahead. Drink less, stop smoking, eat better and exercise regularly must be amongst the most [...]
Convenience, vulnerabilty and upgradeability in innovative product development
A growing theme in innovative product developments of the last decade is exploiting the benefits of connection. The public has shown time and again that it values the convenience of connection very highly. But there is a sometimes implicit trade-off. For instance, the rise of internet banking has been a gold mine for organised crime. The [...]
The answer is blowing in the wind….*
Strangely enough, running an innovative product development company isn’t all about developing innovative products. But if you employ the kind of people we do….the type capable of really making a difference to the way next generation products are developed, then a by-product is that they rarely stop thinking about alternative ways of taking technology and [...]
Innovation… On the Edge
As an innovative product development company we get involved – not surprisingly – with all sorts of new product development; from coffee machines through to cardiac monitors. But once in a while, we have to develop products that can work truly on the edge…. in some of the most inhospitable places in the world, [...]
Will finding the Higgs boson have any impact on our lives?
Arguments are often put that money that is spent on research should be targeted on things of economic value. Currently a large multi-national effort is going on to find the Higgs Boson in experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Particle physicists say that our current understanding of physics fundamentally explains the evolution of [...]
Innovative product development – what’s that?
There are many advantages of working at a company like Cambridge Consultants and not least you get a real insight into a whole host of truly innovative products and service developments long before they hit the high street. But if there is a downside to working here (for me at least) I guess it would [...]
Windfarms on a collision course?
According to Renewables UK , the UK is the windiest country in Europe, so much so that we could power our country several times over using this free fuel. A modern 2.5MW turbine at a reasonable site will generate 6.5 million units of electricity each year, enough to meet the annual needs of over 1,400 [...]
User experience should be at the forefront of innovative medical device development
In consumer products it has been long been known that market share can be driven by the user experience with the product. In pharmaceuticals, the medical devices that deliver medication have been regarded as a somewhat peripheral part of the therapy. A new study suggests this is not the right approach for commercial success.
Cambridge White Space Trial – first tweet over White Space by Cambridge Consultants?
One of the progenitors of innovative wireless product development is the adoption of new standards …The first radio concept along these lines is the use of the white space in the TV spectrum on allocation and time dependent basis to provide services such as rural broadband and yesterday we sent the first tweet over a white space link from our building at Cambridge Consultants to a subscriber terminal in Cottenham.
When is it good to be disruptive?
I still haven’t made my mind up about twitter and whether or not this form of communication is a good thing or a complete waste of time in a B2B context. That said, amongst others, I’ve started following Hermann Hauser’s ‘tweets’. In one of his recent tweets he mentioned that he had just taken delivery [...]
