Archive for the ‘Codexx News’ Category
Sunday, May 9th, 2010
We are pleased to announce that we have been engaged by Mills & Reeve to help them increase innovation and efficiency in their business. Mills & Reeve is a Top 50 UK law firm that has been listed in the Sunday Times ‘Top 100 Companies to Work For’ for the past 6 years.
We are seeing increasing interest from progressive law firms in improving their competitiveness by application of proven business approaches such as process re-engineering and Lean thinking. In addition, firms are also looking at how they can improve their value to their clients and differentiate themselves from rivals by improving their ability to innovate.
We have worked with a number of major UK law firms to help them put in place new methods and thinking to improve their ways of working and innovating.
Posted in Codexx News, Innovation, Law, Professional Services, Re-engineering, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
Monday, January 11th, 2010
Today Codexx launched a study on ‘The Innovation Journey for High Technology, High Speed Businesses. We are working with Professor John Bessant at the University of Exeter Business School and Gill Jennings & Every LLP (GJE), leading UK Intellectual Property Attorneys. The ability for high technology businesses to bring their new products to market quickly and successfully has never been more important. Being late to market with a product offering that is simply a functional ‘me-too’ will never compete with rivals who have captured the hearts and minds of the customers. It is the effectiveness of the innovation journey that businesses make from the initial idea to their product in the hands of the customer that is key.
Alastair Ross, who is leading the study programme, said “We are aiming to bring new insight to this important aspect of innovation. Those businesses that take part in the study will gain the opportunity to review their own innovation journey against best practices. They will also receive a copy of the final study report which will allow them to compare themselves against other businesses – on an anonymous basis of course. Since participation is at no charge, I think this is an excellent opportunity for businesses interested in improving their innovation.”
We are studying the innovation practices and performance that hi-tech businesses have in their innovation journey, from ideas to market. The study questionnaire is based around a nine stage model of the innovation journey, developed for the study. Whilst good practices in innovation are generally understood, we are aiming to determine best practices for these particular types of business across the end-to-end innovation journey. If you are interested in taking part, contact us at innovation@codexx.com.
Tags: Codexx, GJE, innovation journey, John Bessant
Posted in Codexx News, Industrial Sector, Innovation, Strategy & Studies, Systematic Innovation | 3 Comments »
Thursday, January 17th, 2008
Codexx has been certified as a training partner for the ‘Managing Innovation’ training course developed by Dr David Francis of CENTRIM (Centre for Research in Innovation Management) at the University of Brighton and Barnes & Conti Inc. This unique course provides training in key skills across the innovation cycle. It is based on research conducted by Dr Francis with over 100 innovative organisations world-wide to identify common skills that were key to effective innovation. Alastair Ross, Director of Codexx said: ” I am pleased that we are able to offer this excellent course to clients – as far as we know, this is a unique course, and complements our other innovation solutions. ” Codexx has worked with CENTRIM on a number of innovation projects since 2002.
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Thursday, July 12th, 2007
Codexx announced the opening of an office in Second Life, the fast growing online virtual community which is seeing increasing use by progressive businesses. “We will be using the office to provide an additional point of contact to Codexx services for businesses and more importantly to experiment with new ways of working, working with our clients and partners,” said Alastair Ross, Director of Codexx.
The Codexx office is located in the Depo Business Hub.
Posted in Codexx News, Innovation, Virtual Business | 1 Comment »
Thursday, February 15th, 2007
Codexx announced the purchase of the supply chain strategy and assessment solutions business from Supply Chain Analytics Ltd. This includes the SCAN supply chain assessment solution. Alastair Ross, Director of Codexx, said: “This is a valuable addition to our existing range of best practice strategy and assessment tools and allows us to further extend our existing services in innovation and supply chain management.”
Posted in Codexx News, Industrial Sector, Supply Chain | 2 Comments »
Monday, November 13th, 2006
To help Codexx industrial clients assess their supply chain operations and strategies against best practices, as part of an improvement programme, Codexx has made available the SCAN supply chain assessment, developed with its partner Supply Chain Analytics Ltd in conjunction with British Standards Institute and Nottingham University. SCAN enables a detailed assessment against key supply chain best practices.
Posted in Codexx News, Industrial Sector, Supply Chain | 1 Comment »
Friday, April 21st, 2006
Codexx Associates Ltd announces ‘Foundations for Innovation’ following the successful pilot of key components in an Industrial company and a Professional Services firm. F4i is a modular solution providing innovation auditing and the implementation of key foundations for an innovation system and supporting environment in an organisation. F4i was developed with the support of Professor John Bessant at Imperial College London. It enables organisations to assess their innovation practices and performance against world class standards and so focus improvement activities.
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Wednesday, January 5th, 2005
The UK Centre for Economic and Environmental Development (UKCEED) announced the launch of the Centre for Sustainable Engineering. The Centre for Sustainable Engineering (CSEng) is a new national initiative established by UKCEED to support businesses developing innovative and more sustainable technologies. The Centre is designed to exploit the opportunities offered by significant predicted growth in demand for many sustainable technologies, both in the UK and internationally. Codexx is pleased to have been involved in the development of the centre. Reflecting on Codexx’s role in the project, Jonathan Selwyn, Executive Director, UKCEED said “Codexx played a key role in helping UKCEED explore the feasibility of its concept for the Centre for Sustainable Engineering. The consultancy also helped develop an outline business model which played an important role in securing public funding for the Centre.”
For more information on the Centre, go to http://www.ukceed.org/cse.htm
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Friday, May 7th, 2004
Alastair Ross, Director of Codexx Associates Ltd, became Chairman of the Institute of Electrical Engineers Manufacturing Professional Network after accepting the nomination of the Executive Panel. He will lead the executive in working to improve the offerings to the manufacturing community served by the IEE.
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Wednesday, November 19th, 2003
Codexx Associates Ltd and Supply Chain Analytics Ltd signed a collaborative agreement in the area of supply chain optimisation. This will provide for Codexx to market and sell Supply Chain Analytics offerings. Supply Chain Analytics provides technologies and methods to help companies optimise their supply chains. Their core offering is the Zemeter supply chain optimisation suite.
For more information go to Supply Chain Analytics website
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