The roadmap had allowed us to clearly prioritize and communicate our technology investments and activities to the business and has generated real interest from our commercial team who can see the direct relevance to their own goals and objectives. This roadmap isn’t just to give us comfort that we’ve done it but rather it’s driving our daily activity.
Category Archives: Case studies
Exploiting the Hydrogen Economy
Our client, a well-known chemicals company, is potentially well placed to exploit the ‘Hydrogen Economy’. This area has many companies and researchers working in it, so it’s vital to pick the right areas of this emerging industry to focus on.
What else could you do with copper?
The question we were recently asked was “can copper be used in other large volume applications at the intersection between its properties and potential new market trends”. In effect the client was asking for a major new growth platform for …
Developing an innovation growth platform – Lonza
Most companies reach a point where their ability to generate growth falls well short of the rates expected by the board and CEO, and demanded by investors. Visionary companies like Lonza anticipate this and set up projects to identify and implement growth platforms well before market conditions dictate.
Railway infrastructure company
A large railway infrastructure company had significant financial challenges and needed to develop a system to convert the numerous ideas across the business in to real money (i.e. reduced budgets).
Growth on a budget – electric motor company
With slow growth in its core sector and a technical team overstretched by customising existing products and trouble-shooting, this electric motor company decided to look externally for advice on how to grow.