Case Studies: 0-C

A successful innovator for over 100 years and famous for its culture of innovation.

A case study describing the company’s moves into customisation and user engagement in product development

Audio and transcript of interview with Dr Tim Craft, Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care and also Deputy Medical Director of the Royal United Hospital, Bath, U.K. Tim is also Managing Director of AMS, a medical devices company specialising in anaesthesia equipment.

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You can find the audio version here

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And a video interview featuring Tim Craft here

A case study describing the company’s moves into customisation and user engagement in product development.

Exploring the company approach to change management in a major internal transition.

Comparative study of the emergence of two dominant smartphone platforms.

A start-up in the field of sustainability, offering an alternative to plastic packaging for bottled water.

You can learn more about Aquapax through their website here.

A social innovation offering low cost, safe and reliable eye surgery for the poor.

Video of an interview with Francisco Pinheiro, Strategic Innovation Manager with Atos talking about the challenges of getting innovative ideas from employees via internal online platforms in the company

Case study of Margaret Knight, one of the first women entrepreneurs in the USA to successfully patent and defend her ideas.  The story explores her many innovations including the development of key process innovations for the emerging packaging industry

Describes the way in which ‘lean’ thinking evolved through a programme of systematic benchmarking across the world auto industry.

At one stage one of the biggest start-ups in the world, trying to leverage the movement towards electro-mobiliity. It demonstrates the challenges of adoption and diffusion and some of the issues in managing a large-scale start-up venture.

A film charting the early days of a small green-grocery business moving into new innovation space by opening a cafe.  The chain has now grown to a network of 78 cafe/shops across the whole of the UK.

The story of Charles Kettering and his innovation team which pioneered key components including the electric starter.

A start-up business in the growing field of personal grooming products via online sales and distribution.

Born out of the challenges of creating housing solutions in the aftermath of the Nepal earthquake, this humanitarian innovation organization aims to scale a sustainable solution to ;provide employment and solve a housing crisis

Food aid is an important part of any relief operation.  But until comparatively recently the main approach was to buy, ship and deliver food to affected people.  An innovation – giving people cash directly so they could procure food and other things for their urgent needs – was first tried in 1985 but took twenty years to diffuse to the mainstream.  This case looks at the history of this pattern of adoption and diffusion.  This case comes from a wider report looking at the Humanitarian Innovation Ecosystem - for more on this see here.

This case describes how a medium-sized machine builder met the challenge of changing its culture.  Although an old case it still has relevance in today's context where change management of this sort is often required.

A case describing collaborative response to a crisis through innovation.

A detailed case looking at a major Danish manufacturer of medical devices and exploring how well they organize and manage innovation.

A case pack with a variety of resources describing their ‘Connect and develop’ programme.

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Part 1 explores their journey towards developing a radically different model for innovation in a 200 year-old business

A case pack with a variety of resources describing their ‘Connect and develop’ programme.

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Part 2 explores the journey towards maturity, looking back over twenty years of the programme

Looks at how the company has built a strong position through innovation management over many decades.

A study on crisis-driven innovation as the process of rethinking and recombining in creative ways to create a crucible out of which novel innovation trajectories emerge.

A report, by Howard Rush and Puay Tang of CENTRIM, looks at the innovation race in the shadowy world of online crime..