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Category: Analysis

Analysis

Eliminating user error from inhaler-based clinical studies

6 Dec 2018

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…

Analysis

What’s next in digital connectivity?

17 Oct 2018

The Connected World Summit is a two-day festival of the connected technology industry and, with more than 2,500 industry leaders, tech innovators, decision makers and investors in attendance, I went along to see what was on offer this year. It’s a mark of just how important this area of technology has become…

Analysis

A practitioner’s view of ‘jobs to be done’ theory

15 Oct 2018

Many people are now familiar with the ‘Jobs to be Done’ or JTBD theory of innovation and it is becoming a prominent model that is deployed in successful businesses, big and small, as they look to grow through innovation. Stated simply, the JTBD theory is grounded on the understanding that…

Zoological Society (Elephants)
Analysis

Helping Zoological Society of London create new anti-poaching technology

11 Oct 2018

Cambridge Design Partnership is working with the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) on an innovative monitoring system designed to stop wildlife poachers in their tracks.Instant Detect 2.0 is an innovative satellite connected camera and sensor system that can be deployed in the most remote and inaccessible locations to provide sensor…

Bridging a cultural gap in product innovation
Analysis

Bridging a cultural gap in product innovation

1 Oct 2018

Industrial design (ID) and engineering skills are different, yet both are crucial to successful new product development (NPD). But as anyone involved will have experienced, tensions can arise due to the approaches and goals of different members of the team. Having attended both art school to study ID and university…

Medical Devices Regulation
Analysis

Medical Devices Regulation (EU 2017/245) – Are you ready for 2020?

27 Sep 2018

More than a year has passed since 25th May 2017 and the start of the three-year transition period from the Medical Devices Directive (93/42/EEC) and Directive 90/385/EEC on active implantable medical devices (AIMDD) to the Medical Devices Regulation (EU 2017/745).But what does this mean for businesses with products currently on…

Analysis

How to get serious about sleep – for you, your customers and your bottom line

20 Sep 2018

Recently we have been investigating how sleep trends are impacting consumers and how companies can develop new solutions to help us all to sleep better. There is growing scientific evidence, media coverage and public awareness of the impact of sleep on our health. Not just how you feel today, but…

IFA 2018
Analysis

IFA 2018: 5 important themes in consumer electronics the caught our eye

20 Sep 2018

The Internationale Funkausstellung IFA in Berlin is a showcase for consumer electronics innovation and if you’ve never been before it can be overwhelming, over 1,800 exhibitors from more than 100 countries. So we’ve reflected here on what stood out to us and summarised 5 key themes: Smarter Homes: Who is…

Superbugs: diagnostics fight back
Analysis

Superbugs: diagnostics fight back

23 Aug 2018

Medical and healthcare technology is a key and growing activity at Cambridge Design Partnership, and one of our largest growth areas is diagnostics. Diagnostic techniques and devices are truly interdisciplinary, combining and integrating biological processes with science and engineering disciplines including microfluidics, optics, electronics and more. I am excited and…

Analysis

China – opening the door to success

18 Jul 2018

Many still hold the outdated belief that China’s expertise lies solely in manufacturing, and the ability to copy other people’s innovations. On a recent trip to China, I saw how this couldn’t be more wrong. China is poised for success – it has all the pieces in place, the manpower…

Exploding some of the myths about product safety
Analysis

Exploding some of the myths about product safety

16 Jul 2018

Hardly a week goes by without the press or social media picking up on a story, often accompanied by dramatic video, of batteries overheating and even in some cases ‘exploding’ in a consumer product – raising serious concerns about product safety among both consumers and manufacturers. In reality, these incidents…

The fast track to drug delivery device development
Analysis

The fast track to drug delivery device development

11 Jul 2018

How fast is fast? I’ve always been told that when it comes to drug delivery devices, ‘fast’ development is usually measured in years rather than months – with additional years for industrialisation and transfer to manufacturing. In fact, there are drug delivery devices which have been in development for more…

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