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June 2010
We are delighted to announce that Professor David Gann, Head of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group at the Imperial College Business School and Chairman of the Think Play Do Group has been awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours announced on Saturday 12th June. The award recognises Professor Gann's great contribution to Engineering, particularly in relation to innovation in the built environment. Professor Gann also holds a chair at Imperial in Civil and Environmental Engineering.
June 2009
Dr. Pete Thomond presented some of his latest insights on the links between innovation and sustainability at the 14th Sustainability and Design Network Conference. For an abridged version of his presentation, titled "Innovation with Integrity: a new route to sustainability?" email disrupt@thinkplaydo.com.
May 2009
Think Play Do recently undertook a research study for the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association comparing the venture capital industry in the UK to those in Israel and the United States. The report, available here, delivers a series of recommendations on what the UK can learn so that venture capital will deliver greater benefits to innovative new firms and the wider economy.
Think Play Do delivers a seminar for leaders of a global lubricants firm to share its expertise in the next generation approaches to knowledge management for innovation.
Mar 2009
Think Play Do completes its project with a leading medical devices and service company, helping them to use challenge-led innovation to solve some critical business issues and roll out crowd sourcing technologies for the front end of their innovation process. The project team, Pete Thomond and Alex Velkov were proud to work with the fantastic team at Elguji Software. The estimated impact of this work is a 50% reduction in the cycle time at the front end of innovation generating faster times to market, potentially worth millions in savings.
Jan 2009
Dr. Peter Thomond delivers a seminar titled "How not to start a new cleantech venture"; Pete shared his insights from a failed venture in Australia with a budding group of student entrepreneurs at Imperial College.
December 2008
Our senior consultant, Dr. Peter Thomond was honoured to deliver a guest lecture at Loughborough University, where he facilitated a cohort of masters students to explore the latest thinking in the field of Disruptive Innovation in relation to Design and Sustainability. For an abridged copy of his slide deck contact disrupt@thinkplaydo.com.
Dr. Peter Thomond has put his support behind Loughborough University's EPSRC bid on Helping SMEs Rise to the Sustainability Challenge. He will be contributing to the project by bringing his latest knowledge on innovation and diffusion of new ideas.
November 2008
Dr. Ian Mackenzie, Dr. Peter Thomond and Kate Morrison present their research findings to an international oil and renewable energy company. The research identified the potential demand side effects of the growth of the sustainability agenda. To discuss these findings or obtain an abridged insights report, email disrupt@thinkplaydo.com
October 2008
Working together with the Centre for Process Systems Engineering at Imperial College, we have delivered the first prototype of a technology optimisation modelling tool and a supporting innovation process for a national supermarket chain. The project manager, Dr. Peter Thomond states that this will enable the supermarket to select the optimal set of technologies for on-site energy generation and consumption. He predicts this will help them surpass their energy reduction targets, whilst significantly lowering their carbon footprint.
After taking part in IBM's Innovation Jam 2008, Think Play Do began research into software tools that enable challenge based innovation. We have since refined our list of software partners to include Imaginatik IdeaCentral.
September 2008
One of Think Play Do's senior consultants, Dr. Peter Thomond recently presented at the UK Lotus User Group. Peter explored IBM's claim that its Enterprise Social Networking platform, Lotus Connections, empowers organisations to be more innovative. In this highly interactive session, the audience was introduced to the innovation process and asked to contribute their thoughts on the role of Lotus Connections within its key building blocks. For a copy of the presentation materials, contact us.
Professor Mark Dodgson was special adviser to the Australian Government’s recent National Innovation System Review, Chaired by Terry Cutler. Mark has given numerous presentations on the Review to groups including The CEO Forum and the Business/Higher Education Roundtable. An overview of the Report: Venturous Australia, is available here.
Professor David Gann addressed 300 business leaders at Enterprise Ireland's Innovation Forum in Dublin on Thursday 11th September. His presentation, entitled ‘Connect To Innovate’ can be downloaded here.
In a recent publication entitled ‘Innovate with vision’, Professors David Gann and Mark Dodgson argue that the convergence of digital technologies is opening the door to novel ways of managing the creation of new products and services. Read it here.
August 2008
Professor Mark Dodgson recently gave a keynote address to the Investment and Financial Services Association at the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia. His presentation can be downloaded here.
July 2008
During the Discontinuous Innovation Forum at Imperial College London, on the 9th of July, Dr. Peter Thomond conducted a session on Innovation Strategy, presenting three major hindrances to the success of discontinuous projects. A sample of Peter's presentation slides is available here. If you are interested in the full content, please contact us.
May 2008
Our senior consultant Dr. Peter Thomond completes his review of a green technology investment fund, demonstrating that most 'green' start-ups fail to integrate a clear market driven approach with their technologies and that investors systametically fail to use the principles of disruptive innovation to de-risk their portfolios.
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