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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
For some innovation challenges, solutions already exist – it’s just that your industry doesn’t know about them yet. Dyson is the classic example – its iconic vacuum cleaner cyclonic separation technology was originally being used to separate particulates in sawmills. By identifying and linking a seemingly unrelated market opportunity with…