Welcome to Cambridge Consultants
We innovate across diverse markets globally
Clients engage us to access our deep market knowledge and exceptional technical expertise – a combination that leads to industry-defining ideas and breakthroughs that defy convention.
Six decades of breakthrough innovation
Regular award-winners, we’re the partner of choice for global multinationals, aspiring enterprises and ambitious start-ups alike. Take a look at some of our projects…
What our clients say
Our clients tell us that we create devices that “almost defy the laws of physics” and deliver “out-of-the-ordinary engineering capability”.
How we work
We know that outsourcing can seem daunting. We’ve honed our processes to make sure we’re easy to work with, minimising risk and enabling effective collaboration.
We can help at every stage, from technology consulting and concept strategy, through to full product and service development.
Discover
Our clients look to us for breakthrough innovations that will transform their business.
To provide this consistently, a structured approach to innovation is required. We have developed processes and tools that minimise the time to create breakthrough ideas, allowing our clients to stand out in their markets.
Conceive
Market-leading breakthroughs don’t happen by accident. We apply a combination of creativity and science-led design so that products and services reach their fullest potential.
We perform robust feasibility analysis to establish what’s possible, minimise risk and provide greater budget and timescale confidence.
Support
Once a design is completed, that’s just the start of its life in the market – especially for services.
We provide comprehensive support of designs into operation to minimise problems during launch, then supply ongoing enhancement throughout the lifecycle.
Realise
Once a design is agreed, every day that it’s not on the market is a day of revenue lost.
We’ve honed our development, test, NPI and supply chain processes to provide fast and reliable realisation, over the 400+ projects that we undertake each year.
Our people
We employ the brightest minds in engineering, science and design.
Passionate problem-solvers, experienced specialists and revolutionary thinkers, our team exists to make a real difference.
News & insights
Bottling out – the plastic problem
Consumers woke up to the news that the UK government is proposing a deposit return scheme for drinks bottles. But is plastic the real problem?
- Innovation management
- Service design
- Strategic advice
Building the business of biodesign
Synthetic biology remains nascent, yet full of promise. The idea of using rational engineering approaches to design biology has the potential to solve some of humanity’s biggest challenges, such as securing food supplies...
- Innovation management
- Product realisation
- Strategic advice
- Synthetic biology
A taste of the future
Unveiling Cambridge Consultants’ vision for bioplastics in food packaging. The global spotlight on the environmental damage caused by single-use plastics is driving business to consider the sometimes ruinous...
- Industrial design
- Innovation management
- Product realisation
- Synthetic biology
AI in telecommunications set to secure the ‘Augmented Human’
Cambridge Consultants today launches a major new report, stating that the telecommunications sector will be an AI pioneer, as many features of 5G and IoT networks will depend on AI to reach maximum potential.
- Cloud/scalable systems
- Digital health
- Digital services
- Industrial design
- Innovation management
- Machine learning & AI
- Robotics
- Strategic advice