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…
Cambridge Design Partnership (CDP) is opening a new base on America’s East Coast, aimed at meeting the needs of its US customers. Focusing on CDP’s strengths in product and technology innovation, particularly in healthcare, the new facility will open this month (February 2019) in North Carolina.‘We are very much looking…
CDP has just opened a brand-new biological laboratory at its Cambridge HQ, certified to allow research on containment level 2 biological hazards such as micro-organisms, blood and other body products. ‘We are delighted to announce that our new lab has now received approval from the UK Health and Safety Executive,’…
Biosimilars are taking on the multi-billion-dollar blockbuster drugs of today, with some sources suggesting that the market will be worth greater than $20 billion per annum within the next couple of years. The growth is being driven by factors such as healthcare systems looking to reduce costs and the growing…
The Consumer Electronics Show 2019 in Las Vegas is the world’s largest gathering of future-facing technology. Here, CDP’s Tom Lawrie-Fussey, digital services specialist and Alan Cucknell, front end innovation leader, report back on the tech trends that every company needs to know about, now. With 4,500 exhibiting companies and 180,000…
Neil Campbell, CDP’s consumer technology business development leader, is freshly back from the Consumer Electronics Show 2019 in Las Vegas. Here, he reflects on the healthcare innovations there that caught his eye, from malaria-defying lightbulbs to DIY ultrasound scannersThe Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2019 is a vast, raucous collection of…
For the last decade I have been part of the medical devices industry, most recently as part of a design consultancy firm specialising in medical device innovation. In the last few years our world has been shaken with reports of the failure of medical device implants and the insinuation of…
This article was first published on Drug Development and Delivery.“Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history.” For many involved in the medical and pharmaceutical industries within the last few years, this quote – attributed to American historian Joan Wallach…
We are all manufacturers. Without appreciating it we manufacture products ourselves every day. Think back to breakfast this morning – did you make toast? Most mornings my son has toast for breakfast. The process of making his toast mimics the work I do every day at CDP in the development…
Design Thinking is a popular approach to solving innovation challenges, but is it actually a flawed tool? And is there a better solution?
The recent Digital Health World Congress 2018, which was held in London at the end of November, covered aspects of medical and mobile technology. It certainly presented an interesting and diverse line-up of speakers and exhibitors. A key learning we took from the event is that digital health (the intersection…
With inhaler use notoriously prone to user error, any clinical study that involves self-administration via an inhaler is challenging from the outset. Help is at hand, however, with a simple-but-smart device developed by Cambridge Design Partnership “So many things can go wrong when an inhaler is used to deliver a…