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.
Categories: Codexx News, Industrial Sector, Innovation, Strategy & Studies, Systematic Innovation
Tags: Codexx, GJE, innovation journey, John Bessant
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December 9th, 2009
Lean manufacturing techniques enable companies to dramatically improve their customer service, reduce their costs and improve their quality. The origins of Lean Manufacturing are over 50 years old, Toyota first started developing the new thinking and methods that became Lean in the 1950s. Toyota has used Lean to help it become the largest automotive company in the world, overtaking Ford and GM in the process. Read the rest of this entry »
Categories: Best Practices Assessment, Industrial Sector, Lean, Re-engineering
Tags: Lean
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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.
Categories: Innovation, Law, Professional Services
Tags: Award, Blake Lapthorn, Financial Times, Innovation
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September 8th, 2008
Codexx has announced the release of its ‘New Vector’ re-engineering solution, based on over 15 years of re-engineering experience on client projects. New Vector has been developed to provide a time and cost-effective way of applying best practice re-engineering approaches for Services and Industrial companies. It uses a challenging and structured approach with a focus on strong involvement by client managers and employees. For more information, check our services.
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June 27th, 2008
Codexx is pleased to announce that Grundfos A/S, the world leading pump manufacturer, has achieved a World Class level of manufacturing practices in its Danish factories according to the PROBE model. Alastair Ross, Director of Codexx, who led the recent benchmarking assessment at Grundfos said: “I have led regular best practice benchmarking assessments, at Grundfos since 1996 and have witnessed first-hand the major improvement effort and results achieved by their people. Their focus and sustained resourcing of improvement activities should be a lesson to all manufacturers. It has been a pleasure to work with Grundfos and apply methods such as benchmarking, world class manufacturing and Lean, to gain measureable and major improvement.” Grundfos A/S won the EFQM award in 2006 and continues to drive improvements across its manufacturing operations.
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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.”