Navigating the innovation journey: A guide for manufacturers with ideas
The need to innovate has never been as important as it is now. But innovation is not a simple or straightforward process, it’s one that requires skill and expertise. For over 16 years, we have been honing these skills and have collaborated with many clients who have identified a need to innovate. For manufacturers, this is often in the form of bringing an entirely new product to market or redesigning an existing product.
As a result, we have produced a guide that shows where manufacturers can turn to for support and expertise. In the first instance, support can be providing by contacting the Manufacturing Growth Programme (MGP), a business support initiative, that will connect the manufacturing SME to external expertise. Having worked together with MGP on a number of product development projects, we partner with manufacturers who lack in-house expertise or R&D capability.
The innovation process is not straightforward, there are many challenges and pitfalls along the way. In the guide we discuss the areas of expertise that we bring to these projects and the various work packages we offer from viability research right through to manufacturing.
To show how we do it, the guide also includes three case studies showing how we collaborated with manufactures and helped them define the best approach to successfully bring their product idea to market.
If you’d like to know more or to read the guide, please get in touch.