A programme designed to embed a culture of innovation within the day-to-day operations of the company, sees key staff members implement new knowledge, tools and expertise and drive forward new and exciting ideas from across the business generate.
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Siemens are working with +ADD to support utilities engage in ‘Intelligence as a service’ concepts
+ADD’s first event of 2019 set to be a smash with the water industry
ENGIE are offering 5 local authorities free data driven innovation programmes in the coming year.
Following the success of the Yorkshire Water ‘Visible Networks’ innovation programme, +ADD are supporting a major tender development - the Call for Competition is now live!
New applied innovation training programmes designed to support creation of and enable ‘communities of action’ prove to be a great success.
A global giant has selected +ADD to support engagement of UK utilities in collaborative solution experimentation and development.
The +ADD team were delighted to recieve coverage in the latest edition of the IOW - Institute of Waters Autumn magazine for 2018.
+ADD are working on several multiyear contracts to accelerate approaches to innovation, developing innovation champions in workforce, realising implementation of pilots and supporting transformation leadership.
The Northumbrian Water Innovation Festival is in its second year is a truly unique event, taking problems and applying design thinking techniques to try to solve them in five action packed days.
Once again the focus on innovation will be mashed up with the feeling of a summer festival featuring a Marquee village and fun events every evening to engage various groups in the North East of England.
Paul Sutherland, MD of +ADD said:
We are delighted to be supporting the Festival again this year having been involved in various aspects in the inaugural event. The festival is an important expression of change in the Water industry and generates real solutions.
Last year the sprint we facilitated on solving leakage generated several invested projects including the development of a to sensor technology which is going to market in 2018. Further we raised sponsorship for an APP development for WaterAID that went on to in a national award!
You can view this years challenges and register your interest in attending below:
+ADD are working with the North East Local Economic Partnership and Northumbrian Water to engage with small and medium sized businesses across the UK and Europe.
We are actively seeking enterprise that can support different thinking in overcoming important societal and environmental problems that will be explored over the 5 days of the evet.
There is also a competition open UK and European enterprise (Less than 250 employees). To enter simply register your interest in attending the event and tell us why you should receive £1000 for getting involved.
As part of the event, attendees took part in a design sprint and data hackathon facilitated by innovation consultancy +ADD Strategy.
More than 100 people from 38 organisations joined Severn Trent at the Coventry University Technology Centre to share their ideas as part of the four-day Coventry and Warwickshire Business Festival. Together, they used each other’s expertise to explore new and innovative ways to find leaks for the water company, which serves around 8 million customers in the Midlands and Wales.
READ MORE:
http://www.waterjournal.co.uk/news/severn-trent-goes-businesses-leakage-reduction-ideas/
A couple of weeks ago a team from 1Spatial attended a four day Data Hackathon organised by Severn Trent Water and +ADD Strategy. The event offered individuals and teams the opportunity to help Severn Trent increase the efficiency of water supply through improving leakage detection techniques. The ideas the 1Spatial team put forward engaged the Severn Trent team and as a result the team were awarded the award for best analysis.
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https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/severn-trent-water-reducing-leakage-data-hackathon-steve-penson/
Northumbrian Water Group continues to demonstrate that collaboration is essential to successful innovation. Working with +ADD Strategy, an agile innovation partner that specialises in solving hard problems, the team have won an international WaterAid competition focused on improving hygiene awareness and education delivery for rural communities in Nicaragua.
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https://www.unitracc.com/aktuelles/news/northumbrian-collaborators-win-wateraid-innovators-challenge
The team at +ADD are delighted to be working with the 'Digital Innovation HUB' to deliver a London Summit for senior management in corporate environments.
About the event:
+ADD will be presenting and facilitating discussion alongside global innovation brands such as SPIGIT, and major corporate innovation speakers from BMW, VOLVO, MasterCard, VISA, VESTAS Wind, BAYER, Thomas Cook, THALES and others.
The speed of digital innovation has completely change the rules of play – we are talking industry convergence, as a service everything, a start-up within a conglomerate, AI eating business models, the opportunities are mind blowing, but so are the risks…
In the digital economy, the forwards looking business strategy is go digital, find new revenue streams, increase current market share, do not be disrupted but disrupt, FAST!
In January 2018, on the 25th and 26th the digital innovation hub will bring together an exclusive group of executives – key topics include:
Digital Purpose: Transformation & Innovation
Business Model Innovation – Perfect Blend of Technology, People and Service/ Product
Digital Innovation What’s Crippling Progress and Large Deployments?
The Secret of Scale and Mass Deployment of Digital Innovation
Shareholder Value – The Reality of Innovating in the Corporate Environment
Go here to find out more and register.
About the HUB:
Every organization has its own individual culture and how you go about driving innovation is unique to your environment but learning and discussing common challenges such as implementation, change and ROI with other peers will help you achieve your targets, goals and KPIs.
The hub is a unique platform alongside 100 leading and CIO's, Innovation leaders from corporates working in digital innovation and transformation.
Exploring the factors influencing taste and odour
Recently +ADD delivered a fusion project which saw delivery of an integrated sprint and hack. The programme attracted over 160 participants from very diverse backgrounds.
The initiative was an integrated design challenge around leakage which was sponsored by Northumbrian Water and Microsoft. The process and results have been highlighted by various organisations in national press and media including the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC), OfWat and British Water.
See more in this attached video:
Agile and design led innovation is all the rage. Everyone is 'jumping on the bandwagon and reading the 5 day sprint book and giving it a go.
We admit it - its true ...we harness unbound enthusiasm and commitment to gain real results. The +ADD team are unashamedly having no less than 'tonnes of fun' running agile and design led hacks, sprints and innovation challenges. You can see more about this side of our work HERE
We are genuinely passionate about the adoption of new faster quicker and better modes of innovation practice and creating new methods. Given this the +ADD team also work carefully and with method to deliver practical, impactful solutions and end results.
We work with diverse teams and communities to discover deep insight, define true missions and co-discover genuine solutions.
Our team is committed to this goal - it is our principle purpose and not a side-line. We are completely focussed on genuine innovation, solving hard problems and making the right propositions come to life with our clients.
Our people often co-locate and work from within clients offices for days, weeks, months. Some clients provide us with team titles and dedicated email addresses. We are truly part of the team if not the business.
New solutions created through +ADD's work have gone on to be implemented and even win national awards.
We work as innovation partners and present clear roadmaps and work alongside internal teams with resource to see initiatives through conclusion.
Our team includes expertise and practical experience in culture change, transformation and service innovation, strategic marketing and insight, innovation management and commercialisation.
Building foundations on solid ground...genuine insight
Extensive pre-work enables us to define organisational context, commercial objectives, goals and develop practical understanding of barriers to innovation.
We consider patent landscapes, existing and alternative R&D, other relevant innovation initiatives and competitive activities as part of our early approach.
In preparation for co-creation of new offers; we have recently been helping a client in subsea understand market dynamics and drivers effecting demand for their products.
Peter Chalder Wood, an engineer turned marketer, tech. transfer practitioner has been leading this particular initiative. The research work alone has included extensive desk research, workshops with technical experts, insights with fleet operators and asset specifiers, data analytics and development of statistical market models.
Dedication and commitment to achieving clients goals on time sometime means working long hours and lots of coffee.
This kind of work on advanced technology's, complex propositions influenced by 'global to local' factors, changing market structure and complex application drivers requires experience in strategic technology marketing and practical commercial understanding.
In preparation for several recent open innovation programmes we have secured sponsorship, grants and supply chain contributions.
Our work has seen us building consortia, establishing principle terms for IP governance and enabling collaborative developments.
Unbound enthusiasm and commitment to ideas has its place, it is from experience an essential ingredient. However the recipe is complex, it varies and successful innovation is not simply about the winning idea.
So, if you work in a complex market, and are working to solve hard problems with wining solutions... If you are seeking to co-create market led innovations in complex and rapidly changing markets...
Get in touch with peter@addstrategy.co.uk to explore out how we can assist.
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