Archive for 'open innovation' Category
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 [...]
FEI Boston Day 2 – Fail fast, but not too fast, for innovation
Day 2 of FEI in Boston and I went to a really interesting session involving Syl Saller of Diageo and Dr. Charles Camarda of NASA. Not an obvious combination – as Sal pointed out spaceships and alcohol don’t usually mix. There was a lot of common ground, however. Partly why I lked it was that [...]
Shouldn’t eco-credentials be taken for granted?
This week Rachel, Ruth and I continued to spread the good word according to Kevin (pictured above!) – the Cambridge Consultants process for developing breakthrough technologies and innovations that significantly reduce the impact products have on the environment. The latest workshop was part of the Cambridge Programme for Sustainable Leadership’s Master of Studies course. CPSL [...]
FEI Europe 2011 – Culture Breeds Innovation
I’ve just got back from the Front end of Innovation 2011 in Berlin. It has been a really interesting few days, with some fascinating presentations. I’ve come away with two main thoughts: You’ve got to Nurture Innovation For me one of the overriding themes was the need for the right culture within an organisation, large [...]
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 [...]
IFA 2010 Saturday – The eco-innovations keep coming…Philips speak
More news from Philips today about their commitments to the sustainability agenda. Philips really are at the vanguard of green consumer product development, having been working to reduce eco-impact for around 20 years. Philips have been our client for a number of years, and have heavily influenced our own eco-design processes (e.g. Leapfrogging which we’re [...]
How personal is personal?
The second Cambridge Network Consumer SIG meeting was held last Wednesday night. The topic was personalised products, and there were excellent talks from P&G, Hypertag, Samsung and Tonejet followed by a lively discussion. Having been somewhat busy I’m a bit late to write a review as I did last time, and anyway Matt Scofield has done that very [...]
Photos from FEI Boston
Last week was Front End of Innovation in Boston, attended by the leading innovation professionals from around the globe. We were there not only as sponsors but also as part of our programme of events for our 50th anniversary celebrations. Here’s a link to our photos, and also some links to other sites where you [...]
Buzzword bingo from FEI Boston
After three days at the Front End of Innovation, it’s no surprise that the delegates have been engaging in realtime syntactic innovation
From the ‘Beyond Open…’ Summit at FEI
Robert Kirschbaum from DSM gave an excellent talk really setting the scene for the ‘Beyond Open’ summit on the first day of FEI. Like many large corporations DSM has embraced the concept of Open Innovation and recognises that ideas can come from anywhere… in DSM’s case 99.999996% of the world is outside of DSM! As [...]
