Future Smart 2 was a one day event (ideaLAB™) asking the question….What are the real options for smart meter deployment; and realistically what models are likely to be adopted in the next few years.
The +ADD team are continuing to support the Northumbrian Water Innovation Festival in its 3rd year.
In the past we have delivered competitions, investment clinics, design sprints, STEAM activities and even supported recruitment for the first festival Hackathon. This year we are exploring sensor futures…get involved!
Led by an experienced funding specialist, +ADD have launched a new service has designed to support corporate supply chain build innovation consortia and initiatives!
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A programme designed to embed a culture of innovation within the day-to-day operations of the company, sees key staff members implement new knowledge, tools and expertise and drive forward new and exciting ideas from across the business generate.
Surrey County Council operate a £160m programme for highways maintenance with KIER group. Working together with supply chain the Council is seeking fresh thinking to support resource optimisation and process efficiency….can you help?
The team are interviewing and sharing insights from some of the greatest minds in innovation leadership today!
This article explores the challenges to and opportunities for accelerating adoption of ‘system wide integrated intelligence’ in network infrastructure.
Siemens are working with +ADD to support utilities engage in ‘Intelligence as a service’ concepts
+ADD’s first event of 2019 set to be a smash with the water industry
ENGIE are offering 5 local authorities free data driven innovation programmes in the coming year.
Following the success of the Yorkshire Water ‘Visible Networks’ innovation programme, +ADD are supporting a major tender development - the Call for Competition is now live!
New applied innovation training programmes designed to support creation of and enable ‘communities of action’ prove to be a great success.
A global giant has selected +ADD to support engagement of UK utilities in collaborative solution experimentation and development.
The +ADD team were delighted to recieve coverage in the latest edition of the IOW - Institute of Waters Autumn magazine for 2018.
+ADD are working on several multiyear contracts to accelerate approaches to innovation, developing innovation champions in workforce, realising implementation of pilots and supporting transformation leadership.
The Northumbrian Water Innovation Festival is in its second year is a truly unique event, taking problems and applying design thinking techniques to try to solve them in five action packed days.
Once again the focus on innovation will be mashed up with the feeling of a summer festival featuring a Marquee village and fun events every evening to engage various groups in the North East of England.
Paul Sutherland, MD of +ADD said:
We are delighted to be supporting the Festival again this year having been involved in various aspects in the inaugural event. The festival is an important expression of change in the Water industry and generates real solutions.
Last year the sprint we facilitated on solving leakage generated several invested projects including the development of a to sensor technology which is going to market in 2018. Further we raised sponsorship for an APP development for WaterAID that went on to in a national award!
You can view this years challenges and register your interest in attending below:
+ADD are working with the North East Local Economic Partnership and Northumbrian Water to engage with small and medium sized businesses across the UK and Europe.
We are actively seeking enterprise that can support different thinking in overcoming important societal and environmental problems that will be explored over the 5 days of the evet.
There is also a competition open UK and European enterprise (Less than 250 employees). To enter simply register your interest in attending the event and tell us why you should receive £1000 for getting involved.
As part of the event, attendees took part in a design sprint and data hackathon facilitated by innovation consultancy +ADD Strategy.
More than 100 people from 38 organisations joined Severn Trent at the Coventry University Technology Centre to share their ideas as part of the four-day Coventry and Warwickshire Business Festival. Together, they used each other’s expertise to explore new and innovative ways to find leaks for the water company, which serves around 8 million customers in the Midlands and Wales.
READ MORE:
http://www.waterjournal.co.uk/news/severn-trent-goes-businesses-leakage-reduction-ideas/
A couple of weeks ago a team from 1Spatial attended a four day Data Hackathon organised by Severn Trent Water and +ADD Strategy. The event offered individuals and teams the opportunity to help Severn Trent increase the efficiency of water supply through improving leakage detection techniques. The ideas the 1Spatial team put forward engaged the Severn Trent team and as a result the team were awarded the award for best analysis.
READ MORE
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/severn-trent-water-reducing-leakage-data-hackathon-steve-penson/
Northumbrian Water Group continues to demonstrate that collaboration is essential to successful innovation. Working with +ADD Strategy, an agile innovation partner that specialises in solving hard problems, the team have won an international WaterAid competition focused on improving hygiene awareness and education delivery for rural communities in Nicaragua.
READ MORE:
https://www.unitracc.com/aktuelles/news/northumbrian-collaborators-win-wateraid-innovators-challenge
The team at +ADD are delighted to be working with the 'Digital Innovation HUB' to deliver a London Summit for senior management in corporate environments.
About the event:
+ADD will be presenting and facilitating discussion alongside global innovation brands such as SPIGIT, and major corporate innovation speakers from BMW, VOLVO, MasterCard, VISA, VESTAS Wind, BAYER, Thomas Cook, THALES and others.
The speed of digital innovation has completely change the rules of play – we are talking industry convergence, as a service everything, a start-up within a conglomerate, AI eating business models, the opportunities are mind blowing, but so are the risks…
In the digital economy, the forwards looking business strategy is go digital, find new revenue streams, increase current market share, do not be disrupted but disrupt, FAST!
In January 2018, on the 25th and 26th the digital innovation hub will bring together an exclusive group of executives – key topics include:
Digital Purpose: Transformation & Innovation
Business Model Innovation – Perfect Blend of Technology, People and Service/ Product
Digital Innovation What’s Crippling Progress and Large Deployments?
The Secret of Scale and Mass Deployment of Digital Innovation
Shareholder Value – The Reality of Innovating in the Corporate Environment
Go here to find out more and register.
About the HUB:
Every organization has its own individual culture and how you go about driving innovation is unique to your environment but learning and discussing common challenges such as implementation, change and ROI with other peers will help you achieve your targets, goals and KPIs.
The hub is a unique platform alongside 100 leading and CIO's, Innovation leaders from corporates working in digital innovation and transformation.