In our recent blog post ‘What’s Next In Hemodialysis’ we looked at some of the trends that are driving the industry. This month we report from the European Renal Association – European Dialysis and Transplant Association (ERA-EDTA) congress in Budapest. With more than 110 companies exhibiting to 9,500 attendees, Matt…
Margaret Thatcher famously said ‘sleep is for wimps’. Sadly, that’s not good advice, but also, it seems, it is exceedingly bad for the economy. Even though we spend around a third of our lives asleep, society it seems, has been mis-sold the value of a full night’s sleep. RAND Europe,…
Currently agriculture is facing challenges from many directions. Modern hyper-intensive farming (demanding the highest crop yield from monocultured crops with less regard for long-term fertility or ecosystem metrics) is interrelated with the great environmental threats; destabilising climate change, biodiversity, oceanic dead zones and poor global soil health. In turn these…
Women are still hugely under-represented in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) careers. Only 22% of the UK STEM workforce is made up of women according to a 2018 study. In Engineering specifically, the stats are worse: only 12% of all professional engineers are women. Here at Cambridge Design Partnership,…
There is no doubt that User Experience (UX) is a hot topic throughout today’s design world. But how is the personal approach to product development affecting the field of healthcare? Lucy Sheldon, people-centered designer, and Andres Barrera, user experience designer, went along to the first ever User Centred Design (UXD)…
The 56th European Renal Association-European Dialysis and Transplant Association (ERA-EDTA) conference takes place this year on June 13-16 in Budapest. With this in mind, Matt Brady, Partner & Head of Medical Therapy at Cambridge Design Partnership and Jess Carroll, Mechanical Engineer from Cambridge Design Partnership consider the future of renal disease patient…
Matt & Jess consider the future of renal disease patient care, and how the growing home dialysis market could drive innovation.
Crossing the chasm from design to manufacture can create an acute case of innovation vertigo. Carl Pullen, senior consultant mechanical engineer and Wade Tipton, partner responsible for quality and manufacturing at Cambridge Design Partnership discuss the benefits of using short-run manufacturing to solve the challenges of design transfer in medical…
The challenges of bridging the ‘design transfer chasm’ are well known in the medical device industry. If your approach to design and innovation has not fully anticipated the intricacies of volume production in a regulated environment, then difficulties will arise when it is sent to your manufacturing partner to be…
Highlights from Martha's keynote talk centred on the belief that innovation happens where consumer insight, technology enablers and business opportunities coincide.
Simply the bestCDP scoops the ‘Employer of the Year’ award in the 2019 Cambridge News Business Excellence AwardsIt’s official: Cambridge Design Partnership is indeed a truly great place to work.CDP won the prestigious Employer of the Year award for 2019 at a reception at King’s College in Cambridge this month…
As you may have seen in the news recently, Unilever have bought the UK snack business Graze, well-known for their healthy-snack subscription service. Subscription is an example of a growing trend in e-commerce and a recent Mckinsey survey found that 15% of US online shoppers have signed up to an…