Consumer Products Blog
The value of user feedback for innovative product development
By Richard Mann - Last updated: Monday, March 14, 2011Gaining user feedback during the development of new products is the norm in the medical design sector, where new devices have to go through stringent regulations to ensure they perform to the correct standards. Some of our consumer sector clients have known this for years, but gaining user feedback and utilising human factors engineering are ...
Smart Meters must communicate with Consumer Appliances if we are to achieve significant energy savings
By Richard Williams - Last updated: Wednesday, March 9, 2011Across the world governments, utilities and industry bodies are working hard to define and roll out Smart Metering Systems which will work for their customers, industry structure and regulatory environment. In many countries consideration is being given to Meter Design, Wireless LAN standards, System Security, Data Privacy and many other areas essential to the successful ...
FEI Europe 2011 – Culture Breeds Innovation
By Edd Brunner - Last updated: Monday, March 7, 2011I’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 ...
Bathtub to Warehouse Tour continues to Cambridge University – Innovative Product Development Discussion Group
By Ruth Thomson - Last updated: Thursday, February 17, 2011After taking the ‘Bathtub to Warehouse’ event to London twice in 2010 and to MIT in January we were delighted to make a ‘home’ appearance and bring ‘Bathtub to Warehouse’ to Cambridge, UK earlier this week. The event was part of the Enterprise Tuesday Programme organised by the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning at Cambridge University, ...
Bathtub to Warehouse – innovative product development experts – on tour at MIT!
By Ruth Thomson - Last updated: Tuesday, February 8, 2011Braving the snow and the threat of freezing rain Duncan Smith and Ruth Thomson from the Consumer Team at Cambridge Consultants headed to MIT in Cambridge, MA to take our ‘Bathtub to Warehouse’ seminar on the next stage of its tour! ‘Bathtub to Warehouse’ is our name for an event where we explore how the product development ...
CES Trends…. predictable in 2011?
By Duncan Smith - Last updated: Monday, January 3, 2011What trends in innovative consumer products would you to see at #CES this year?
CES is only two weeks away….
By Duncan Smith - Last updated: Tuesday, December 21, 2010…. it seems hard to believe at the moment, as we prepare for a brief chance to enjoy taking consuming our products at Christmas, but in two weeks we’ll be setting up the stand for another exciting Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. As Rachel mentioned, we’ll be showing two of the innovative consumer products ...
Our innovative consumer product developments hit the market – Christmas present anyone?
By Rachel Harker - Last updated: Thursday, December 16, 2010We are delighted that two of our product innovation projects have made it to market in recent months. The Q2 Cube radio is based on our Iona internet radio platform implemented in a really novel way; it’s got no dial, no buttons and no display. Instead you tip it, tilt it or roll it to ...
Kick-starting open innovation with formulation
By Rachel Harker - Last updated: Friday, November 26, 2010Yesterday 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 ...
UMI and Smart Meters at Metering and Billing 2010
By Richard Williams - Last updated: Sunday, September 26, 2010Last week in Vienna saw the major European conference on Smart Metering. Our colleague Alistair Morfey presented UMI – Universal Metering Interface on Wednesday 22nd September in the afternoon session on Standardisation and Interoperability. You may be thinking why is metering so important to consumers – meters are those ugly grey boxes which are buried ...
