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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 [...]
Why do big Government Innovative Product Development often go wrong and what should we expect from the SMART Metering roll out?
There’s a long history of cost overruns, delays and problems in major government procurement whether it be a radio for the military (see Delivering Digital Tactical Communications Through the Bowman CIP Programme … By Great Britain: National Audit Office) or an IT system for the NHS that had to be scrapped after £12bn of costs had been incurred. In fact, it’s almost an oxymoron to talk about government innovative development in the UK, so commonly are these programmes delayed, cancelled or don’t deliver the promised benefits.
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 [...]
Extending the life of technologies for decades
Businesses need to not only make technology breakthroughs, they need to continuously improve technologies and adapt them to market opportunities. An example that has been an important technology capability within Cambridge Consultants for thirty years is broad band radar, which has enabled a succession of innovative product developments.
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 [...]
A Riot of Innovation ?
One of the technological mega trends is the transfer of control of media channels from the State and big corporations to everyone in the Social Media age. In recent months, we have seen authoritarian regimes in the Middle East tremble as people power aided by communication tools such as Twitter and Facebook have forced regimes to [...]
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.
So you’re concerned about your Smart Phone being tracked – you ain’t seen nothing yet
There are real challenges to innovative wireless product development. Not so much from the difficulty of implementing wireless technologies though that can be challenging but from the system complexity that often attends wireless product development and deployment. One facet of the increasingly wireless connected world in which we live is that data about all of [...]
China’s hi-tech product development revolution
When we think of China in terms of product development, most of us think about it as a home to manufacturing but not, necessarily, as the home of innovative product design. But according to a recent story from the BBC, China is all set to change that. The story, produced by the BBC’s Beijing office, [...]
Innovative Product Development – where do I look for the opportunity?
New innovative product development has many engineering challenges, but most projects that fail won’t fail for engineering reasons, they’ll fail for business or organizational reasons. So how do you reduce these risks?
