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Solving skills challenges in Aerospace !!!
The team at +ADD Strategy are delighted to be working with a major national skills agency to solve challenges in advanced manufacturing and engineering sectors.
Covid has damaged the sectors skills pools and reduces key organisations abilities to recover effectively. To help reduce risk and accelerate recovery +ADD and the team at Enginuity are working with some of the biggest names in UK industry to create novel learning solutions to aid knowledge retention and sharing.
According to Enginuity, More than 200,000 years* of ‘invaluable experience and specialist knowledge’ have already been lost from UK aero and aviation alone, due to post-pandemic job losses already announced.
The initiative will see ADD Strategy working with Enginuity to develop bespoke games in the Aerospace industry to support skills exchange and retention using the BrightGame system. These interactive games help engage and explore different situations using the theory of constraints (people, money, time and resources) to stimulate thinking around real-world scanario’s.
The initiative is supported by Ufi Voctech funding which is enabling the development of not only games but a new online platform to enable organisations to create their own learning games using the system.
Paul Sutherland said…
‘We have been making Serious Learning board games using BrightGame for many years. As an expert body, Enginuity brings deep insight into application space that really needs help and the team offer an inspirational and deep understanding of the potential for digital skills solution in UK advanced manufacturing and engineering sectors who crave fast-paced accessible, easy to deploy and interactive learning solutions’.
Lucy Thompson, COO of Enginuity said in their recent article, ‘Brain Games Block Brain Drains’:
“Neuroscientists have identified that the best way of imparting knowledge to young people is by using games – so we are equipping companies with the ability to create games to pass on knowledge.
“This makes the transfer of knowledge fun and easy. Games are an engaging, easily accessible, contemporary catalyst to help a workforce learn – retain and enhance their knowledge in specialist sectors.
“We have been inundated with interest from the sector.”
The collaboration is unique to UK industry and we are very excited to see where it leads.
You can read more about BrightGame here and learn about Enginuity’s focus in their article on the collaboration here
For more information on how we approach gamification and to express interest in creating learning games with us in any sector, please email [email protected]
#Get-Involved #Gamification #Serious learning #Skills
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A frosty walk to Ridley Mill today ! https://www.instagram.com/p/CKcgRgOAsCp/?igshid=106849wd4k4gr
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A busy day working on innovation roadmaps on utilities! https://www.instagram.com/p/CI1dKFDg6Ni/?igshid=b2gtwzujg8qy
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+ADD brings in the 'Big Guns!!!' thought leaders and world renowned experts
The team at +ADD have gone above and beyond in bringing together some of the worlds leading expertis in innovation management and practice.
As part of Innovation Evolved - a unique small audience masterclass for those serious about developing innovation management and leadership skills, this event offers the opportunity to exchange thinking and ideas with innovation authors, Blue chip CEO advisors and international experts.
Speakers include Professor Roy Sanbach OBE FRS (Innovation leader), Cris Beswick (expert bluechip advisor/ Author), Jon Metselaar (Global speaker and consultant), and Paul Sutherland FCIM (corporate counsel and +ADD’s MD).
This session is focussed on the development of innovation culture enabling the acceleration of innovation and better response to major shifts in the environment affecting innovation such as Covid, market disruption, and innovation elsewhere!
THIS SESSION EXPLORES THREE DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES ON INNOVATION CULTURE, NEW WAYS OF ORGANISING FOR INNOVATION AND INNOVATION LEADERSHIP STYLES, AND PROVIDES FOR AN IN-DEPTH LOOK AT HOW TO BUILD, SUPPORT, AND EMPOWER INNOVATION COMMUNITIES AND ENSURE OUR STAFF ARE SET UP TO SUCCEED AS THEY START TO DRIVE CHANGE WITHIN OUR ORGANISATIONS.
There are various ticket options and some sponsored tickets available. Please contact click here, or contact [email protected] for more details
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New innovation capability and capacity review service
As an ‘innovation partner’ we understand it is important to develop a clear understanding of where you are as well as what you seek to achieve moving forwards.
Our Innovation baseline programme enables us to explore where you are in terms of simple comparable measures. Our methodology includes a staff survey, supply chain and select staff insight interviews.
We are privileged to have senior thought leaders on innovation strategy and management in our delivery community. Most of our strategic practitioners are published and have high reputation. Your initiative will be led be a credible expert in innovation practice.
We help you explore:
•Innovation focus, strategy, goals and metrics
•Development of challenge themes
•Principle innovation strategy and action planning
•Current innovation capacity
•Barriers and constraints to innovation success
•Policy environment and supplier community FIT
•Boundary spanners, networks and community
•Culture drivers and constraints
•Focused resource, skills and capability
To learn more or to arrange a preliminary discussion, please contact [email protected]
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Exploring smart meter realisation models at the Urban Innovation centre
Future Smart 2 is a FREE to attend 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 event takes place on Tuesday May 14th in collaboration with Diehl Metering and hosted by the Urban Innovation Centre in London, home of the UK’s Future Cities Catapult.
The event is our second in the field of smart water metering and follows a successful design sprint sponsored by South East Water exploring data call frequency and GDPR implications.
The event is an ideaLAB™ ; A proven one day event designed to bring together diverse communities to explore, discover and co-design forward thinking and innovative concepts.
Our goal is to help water companies and their supply chain better prepare for the coming challenge of developing strategy, policy and decisions regards how and what they will look for….
To register for a free place click here
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WATER INDUSTRY ASSET MANAGEMENT 2019
The 9th annual Water industry asset conference is set to be a great success with talks from
The event is the only dedicated UK event that connects senior asset, capital delivery and supply chain leaders within water companies and tier 1 contractors together.
It will be held at the Birmingham Conference and Events Centre on the 2nd May.
The +ADD team are supporting the event, providing facilitation support for three challenges exploring key issues such. The three challenges include:
Develop a framework for water resource planning for the future
Considerations:
The impact of a growing population on our national water supply
How will regional transfers increase water supply between regions in the future?
The role of water companies in developing a truly national water framework
Develop a framework for setting up a collaborative working relationship
Considerations:
What role do alliances have in delivering vital projects?
How can water companies work together more productively for the good of the national water service?
Develop the framework for a smart solution that manages asset health
Considerations:
How can smart maintenance be used to provide information on potential threats and improve the safety of the water network?
What role does control technology and the use of remote sensing equipment play in proactively managing assets?
How can the water sector balance technology, customer engagement, regulation and policy while driving innovation?
You can register for the event here: https://event.wwtonline.co.uk/asset/
For more information about how to work with us, contact [email protected]
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Accelerating adoption of system wide integrated intelligence
In the utilities industry we face the challenge of optimising the life on ageing assets and operationally, constantly improving actionable understanding and management of cause & effects on service quality and resilience.
The infrastructure is under attack from nature, the environment, the weather and a host of other man-made problems.
This article explores the challenges to and opportunities for accelerating adoption of ‘system wide integrated intelligence’ in network infrastructure.
Currently a number of operational decisions are made through tacit expertise and knowledge of process, as well as historical or predictive analytics and process/event modelling . While this is increasingly sophisiticated, utilities are constantly questioning for a more ‘real’ truth.
We are now in a position where technology could help us see the network through data in a way not feasible 20 years ago …creating visible networks.
‘So what?’ and ‘Why should we change?’
+ADD is involved in a host of related projects from problem definition to enabling experimentation, solution and business case prototyping to tender support and trial management.
At every stage these healthy questions are asked, especially since in most organisations there is already an overwhelming amount of data.
It is inevitably not used to best effect due to various constraits including difficulties of access, inconsistent quality and lack of resource to turn it into actionable insight. Beyond this new insight leads to demands for change in processes and systems (a barrier in itself).
Our response to why we should forge forward is simple as network visibility enables:
More accurate prediction of issues
Proactive control processes and offers a foundation for de-manning and process automation
Better operational planning to avoid network stress
Improvements in asset management and redundancy/ repair and replacement planning
Better intelligence for validation of decisions, business cases and regulatory reporting
Reduced reliance on tacit knowledge and associated risks and errors
This inevitably leads reduced incidents of supply interuption, reduced leakage, flooding, fewer works or service quality complaint events to cost efficiences, better service value, and happier customers.
What are the problems in question?
The truth is many parts of these networks are essentially invisible apart from at critical operations, process points and for regulatory monitoring requirements. In some cases the exact location of infrastructure isn't really known either.
Shockingly utilities …like the rest of humanity operate in an imperfect world where there are too many variables, not enough ‘quality’ data and there is too much to improve with not enough resource.
Making decisions on how to prioritise works and allocate limited resource effectively is complex and there simply is not enough information on which to develop effective insight and establish the best decision making processes.
Enhancing operational performance and resilience is an organisation wide challenge with diverse departments and stakeholders involved.
Looking at the diverse nature of insights in each vertical department that ‘could’ be useful is a challenge in itself, let alone considering the issue from a system wide, multi directorate and ‘integrated intelligence’ perspective.
What is the role of ‘network intelligence?’
It is better to answer this as a series of questions. Some are longstanding while others (enabled by technology) are new…
How can we ensure product and service quality and deliver quality beyond customer expectations?
How can we realistically optimise asset life and management; making better decisions on repair, maintenance and replacement?
How can we de-risk and make better operational decisions, for example reducing asset stress, improving supply resilience and reducing failure events?
How can we create efficiences and better value for our customers through longer term planning, process redesign, automation and systems efficiencies?
There are of course a host of practical questions but they often fall into these domains.
Breaking down silo thinking and barriers to change
In real terms there are a number of barriers to effectively adopting integrated intelligence solutions. Technology is the least of these, we need to focus on people, processes and culture.
In the network operator, ambition can be inhibited by traditional asset governance and directorate performance management models.
It’s fair to say managers are under pressure to make ‘the right’ decisions with clear justification. This business case approach does not accomodate investment in experimentation and can lead to a focus on existing proven technology adoption and a risk averse culture.
Lack of clear ambition and policy regards ‘integrated intelligence’ is can be an issue as the internal stakeholders are diverse and leadership across these different silo’s are understandibly unclear on ‘integrated intelligence’ potential and the level of commitment they should provide in their plans and budgets.
Integrated intelligence is the foundation for disruptive change, offering potential for actionable insight, automation and de-manning systems and processes. This is can be a concern particularly in more sensitive operations which are bastions of data, knowledge and expertise. Intelligence may be seen as a prelude to change in roles, teams and responsibilities.
It is very unclear who should own and operate principal intelligence in this new world. While some suggest it is hype and just an extension of existing solutions others recognise the impact of intelligence on future business and sevice models to be disruptive.
Supply chain is less than collaborative, often focussing on the value of thier specific component technology or narrow value propositions. This leads to poor integration and even barriers to co-design and solution thinking.
The supply chain is converging on the potential in intelligence leading to a confusing array of stakeholders offering overlapping ‘solution component’ service models, consultancy and transformation agenda’s. Rather than recognising the value of collaborating many are going beyond their domain and seeking too offer end to end services as new topical tenders emerge.
There is clearly a role for ‘pairs of safe hands’ in supply chain and solutions integrators to create new business and service delivery models open to new communities of sensor, telemetry, data management and analytics enterprise. Inevitably the true value of the investments are in facitating integration of data and creating new insights.
Technology is flourashing and this is leading to diverse telementry, protocols, standards as well as a myriad of sensor solutions and technology families. As well a a fear of selecting the wrong solution there is concern over technology redundancy.
Not surprisingly there is mixed perception on the required level of policy guidance required from the regulator in this domain. Too little can mean slow commitment and risk to service and regulated performance metrics; too much could constrain innovation and different thinking that offers stepchange in performance.
This IS a transformative movement !
We can see the challenge is not so much about technology but rather defining ambition, goals, pritorities and enabling collaboration both in utilities, across network operators and in the supply chain.
This is an operational and digital transformation agenda and should be treated as such with strong leadership, vision and clear alignment across departments. Innovation teams in this domain can be a constrained to focussing on short term topical agenda’s, business case POC’s (Proof of concepts) and longer term advocacy of research and technology development.
This IS about enabling experimentation co-creation of new use cases and collaborative solution and business case design. This is NOT about selecting winning technologies but de-risking intelligence supply and service models.
Vendors need to consider redundancy and change in use cases that are inevitable and new insights are dscovered from merging new and existing data. New business models and a move away from capex thinking and rationale is critical to avoid that capitalisation demands halting change and operational transformation. Supply chain MUST step up and offer validation for Opex solutions and square the circle of impact on utility financial modelling through new and creative service models.
Another key factor in enabling change is culture and response to system change propositions. Business modelling must grasp the thorny issue of both internal process and system changes, automation potential and change to operational processes. To this end, integrated thinking and rationale across utility departments is the next battle front. There are plenty of champions within the utilities and they need help and assistance in realising the message and making clear arguements for integrated approaches.
The biggest barrier is lack of realised collaborative intent as borne out of all of +ADD’s work to date in this field. This is simply a lack of real collaboration versus the spoken intent to get involved. When it comes down to it, many simply don’t see the commercial value. This can be short sighted concerns over loss of ownership of percieved opportunities or fear of competitive action.
While we are sure the prolifieration of new technologies will continue , and that we will see new disruptive innovations this is not the principle barrier. (I personally hope we see some practical deployment of Battery-less, Wireless energy harvesting and more solid state low cost sensors in currently seemingly impossible water quality fields)
Our conclusions…
The real goal is to co-create and establish a clear vision on the potential for system wide integrated intelligence. The vision needs to break down into tangible actionable strategic and topical roadmaps with inegrated demonstrable benefits across departments.
Like all aspecs highlighted in this article, this cannot be achieved by one or even a few organisation collaborating. This needs to be a concerted and coordinated effort involving both utilities and supply chain.
We are delighted to have already secured some excellent collaborations enabling oen debate and collaborative works to shape the angenda. We hope to discover more with such a rich array of forward thinking and ambitious global brands seeking to enable transformation in these sectors.
If you would like to discuss how to get involved, please do not hesitate to contact [email protected] and lets start the conversation.
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1Spatial Article: Our experience at +ADD's Severn Trent Fusion event
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.
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https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/severn-trent-water-reducing-leakage-data-hackathon-steve-penson/
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Severn Trent Article: Open innovation with +ADD tackling leakage
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/
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UNITRACC Article: +ADD and NWG collaboration wins award
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
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GET Involved: A new Hackathon on tast and odour of water
Sponsored data integration and expression project with Northumbrian Water – Get involved
#Hack Series 2017-2018 Event 2:
Northumbrian Water Group (NWG), which includes Essex & Suffolk Water in the South East and Northumbrian Water in the North East of England. We pride ourselves on offering excellent product and service and go to great lengths to ensure our product tastes great and smells good. Needless to say we are keen to ensure our customers are happy with our product 100% of the time.
Very rarely we receive a complaint about a change in taste and odour (far less than 1% of customers contact us about this issue). The events are few and far between but across our 2.7 million customers and 5 years of data there are sufficient to explore the root causes.
To make this more challenging, as well as a low density and geographically distributed nature of recorded events, the range of factors that can lead to a perceived change in taste and odour sufficient to contact us are diverse.
Examples include:
Water blending processes
Changes to water sources
Local distribution works
Repair/ replace/ maintenance works
Water processing decisions
Debris entering local supply
Domestic pipework issues
Property age and type
Chlorine residual effects
Changes in supply temperature
Rainfall
Social dynamics
House moves/ customer relocation
The overall goal
Our goal is to maximise satisfaction by better understanding the hierarchy of factors, compound causal factors, and as a result, to develop analytics that enable making decisions that reduce the likelihood of a perceived change to taste and odour.
This is a great opportunity to forge direct links with organisations that can engage and potentially work with you to develop commercial solutions.
Our goal is to discover analytics that can either:
Demonstrate new ways to effectively identify and prioritise factors or combinations of factors leading to perceived changes to taste and odour
Establish analytics that can predict perceived changes to taste and odour and support operational and process decision making that minimises events.
We are using this event to identify relevant skills and potential commercial suppliers.
About the event
We are organising an exciting 2-day initiative to bring together data analysts/data scientists, mathematicians and expression specialists to creatively explore the challenge.
The hackathon will span two days and will take the form of a contest. Participants are welcome from the UK and overseas and can attend site or participate remotely.
The initiative is sponsored by Northumbrian Water, with the main event running across the weekend of the 9th-10th December 2017.
The event will be led by +ADD Strategy our innovation partner, along with a number of postgraduate researchers with an interest in big data, data analytics and data exploration and expression. Further NWG systems and BI specialists will be on hand during the data hack to assist with questions arising during the experiment.
The initiative will see teams form and compete to see who can produce the best and most impactful data insights including data expression, mashup or visualization relating to our challenge.
Why participate?
ALL OF OUR OPEN INNOVATION PROJECT HAVE LED TO COMMERCIAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR PARICIPANTS. RESULTS HAVE RANGED FROM INVESTED PROOF OF CONCEPTS, TRIALS, DEVELOPMENT CONTRACTS AND EVEN JOBS!!! OUR HACKATHONS HAVE CREATED AWARD WINNING ANALYTICS THAT HAVE BEEN APPLIED IN INDUSTRY
TO FIND OUT MORE AND APPLY TO ATTEND/ FOR SPONSORED PLACES GO TO:
WWW.DEVPOST.WATERSENSE
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WET NETWORKS national networking event
+ADD are speaking on the developing use of agile and design led innovation in with utilities space.
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Hack opportunities in Newcastle and Coventry!
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More awards!!! - success speaks for itself
Success at the WaterAid APP. Challenge Awards
+ADD have been supporting an initiative to design a working mobile app which helps volunteer hygiene promoters to working in under developed and remote parts of the world! Our submission won a national category award.
The team was instrumental in coordinating the consortia's response to Water AID's challenge. As part of the project +ADD secured sponsorship and assistance from Nutshell (a novel software platform enabling mobile app development with no coding expertise). Further +ADD's team organised workshops to co-create and design the APP with NWG staff.
The resultant APP enables scheduling and management of field projects, as well as coordination of volunteers. Further the volunteers (typically local community members) can access an easy to use hygiene audit. The audit is designed to deliver insight over several visits, and to engage participants directly through the interface, mapping progress and highlighting areas in which practical assistance might be needed.
For more information please contact Fiona at +ADD.
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British Water asks +ADD to explain Agile innovation
+ADD have been invited to present case studies on the application of design led and agile innovation in water utilities at their London innovation event. Watch this space for more details.
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