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Tag Archives: Innovation
The secrets of successful R&D
As with all business decisions there is an element of ‘gut feeling’ with innovation. While many of the most successful R&D directors are those that have clear sense of vision, there is a role for a systematic approach to underpin …
Technology roadmapping – a concept or a pragmatic tool?
Is a technology roadmap a destination or the start of the journey? Peter Allen, co-founder of nu Angle argues that roadmapping is a tool that can be used to develop robust investment strategies. It can be structured to support ‘challenge-led’ …
How to build an expert network
Open Innovation is a key skill and part of a process for many companies in their search for sustainable growth. To achieve a step change in growth an organisation needs to look outside its core competencies and explore new opportunities. …
nu Angle rises to US firms’ demand for technology strategy
‘Innovate or die’ is the hard reality and one that progressive US corporations are taking seriously. In response to strong demand in the US for our technology strategy and roadmapping tools, nu Angle has established a Pittsburgh-based company to support …
Creating and implementing a technology roadmap – Smith & Nephew
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.
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.