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.
Categories: Best Practices Assessment, Industrial Sector, Lean
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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.
Categories: Catalyse & Train, Codexx News, Innovation, Systematic Innovation, Uncategorized
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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.
Categories: Codexx News, Innovation, Virtual Business
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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.”
Categories: Codexx News, Industrial Sector, Supply Chain
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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.”
Categories: Innovation, Law
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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.
Categories: Codexx News, Industrial Sector, Supply Chain
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November 10th, 2006
Codexx played a key role in the research behind a new government environmental report, “Emerging markets in the environmental sector – November 2006”. As the consulting partner for UKCEED, who compiled the report, Codexx were responsible for defining and running fast-track scenario development and strategic road-mapping workshops with industry experts. Our work provided Case Studies and analysis for the important Contaminated Land Remediation and Environmentally Smart Buildings sectors.
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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.
Categories: Best Practices Assessment, Codexx News, Innovation, Systematic Innovation
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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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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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