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From Caffè Culture 2011

Yesterday Edd and myself visited the Caffe Culture show in London.  It’s the largest coffee show in the UK and has a good variety of stands in everything from roasting equipment and espresso machines through to small foods suppliers and ancillary support companies. It’s good to see coffee machine innovation continuing.  In the espresso machines [...]

Kick-starting open innovation with formulation

Yesterday was the ‘Formulated Product Design: Kick-Starting Open Innovation’ event in snowy Harrogate.  This was a networking and matchmaking event aimed at connecting Open Innovation staff at large firms like P&G, Reckitt Benckiser and Kraft Cadbury with small companies delivering innovations in formulation.  This was interesting to us, because we often get called on by [...]

Coffee time for Macmillan Cancer Support

The world’s best espresso for the world’s biggest coffee morning, here at Cambridge Consultants.

FEI: Unreasonable Behaviour—A Driving Force for Innovation?

Does unreasonable behaviour inspire disruptive innovation? If you set goals for a project that are not just challenging but are actually unreasonable, you can inspire a team to challenge conventional thinking and look for a step change – a radical innovation. This is the subject presented at the keynote presentation at Front End of Innovation [...]

Is there still such a thing as a commoditised market?

I don’t believe there is such a thing as a commoditised market any more. We work with a lot of companies in what I used to think were commoditised markets, from drinks to hi-fi, and there seem to be opportunities for innovation in every market. Am I right?