Archive for the ‘Innovation’ 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 »
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
The 2008 Financial Times Innovative Lawyers awards, held at the Royal Courts of Justice in London on 16 October, announced that Blake Lapthorn is now the 21st most innovative law firm in Europe. The firm rose 18 places in the rankings, from its 2007 position.
The firm was commended for 4 project areas covering new services and ways of working including a new ‘Life Coaching Offering’ and ‘FirmJam’ an internal brainstorming week run on the firm’s intranet. Alison McClure, Transformation Partner, said: “The team have done a really good job this year in implementing our various Innovation projects and it’s extremely rewarding to see that all our hard work has received such great recognition in today’s FT Innovative Lawyers report. We will continue to generate our Innovation projects, which play a key part in the firm’s ongoing development.” Codexx has provided Blake Lapthorn with ongoing consulting support since 2005, to establish their innovation process and develop new services and ways of working.
Tags: Award, Blake Lapthorn, Financial Times, Innovation
Posted in Innovation, Law, Professional Services | 1 Comment »
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.
Posted in Catalyse & Train, Codexx News, Innovation, Systematic Innovation, Uncategorized | No Comments »
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 »
Wednesday, January 17th, 2007
Tanaka Business School at Imperial College London, hosted the presentation of the report on ‘Innovation in major UK law firms’, resulting from a joint study performed by Alastair Ross, Director of Codexx and John Bessant, Professor of Innovation Management at Tanaka Business School, Imperial College and supported by AIM Research. The audience comprised executives and partners from representatives of the 16 top 75 UK law firms who took part in the study. Alastair Ross said, “This unique study focused on an area of increasing importance to all law firms as they seek to compete in increasingly challenging markets.”
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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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