
The latest thought leadership from our expert teams

Automation to autonomy: navigating the path to success
Extraordinary advances in artificial intelligence, robotics, wireless connectivity and edge compute are opening up transformative commercial opportunities for all sorts of businesses. Now is the time to seize them. This whitepaper could act as your window on the future – offering as it does a practical guide to navigating the road from automation to autonomy.
- AI & Analytics
- Connectivity & IoT
- Digital security
- Innovation management
- Strategic advice

Digital transformation for physical product companies
The movement is irresistible. Companies traditionally focused on physical products, from beauty to laundry, are embracing the opportunities of digital. The time to make things happen is now, before it’s too late and competitors steal a march. If you are part of a consumer business intent on transforming digitally and growing in entirely new ways, this eBook is essential reading.
- Digital service innovation
- Innovation management
- Product realisation
- Strategic advice

The rise of non-terrestrial networks and 5G hybrid architectures
There’s far more to the disruptive power of 5G than fast speeds – it’s also about the resulting network architecture that brings new levels of flexibility and service innovations the mobile industry has never seen before...
- Connectivity & IoT
- Radio systems

Creating robust bioprocessing scale-down models
Scale-down models have become an increasingly common development tool, especially in the bioprocessing industry. Read our eBook to discover our approach to the challenge of scaling up scale down models.
- Bioinnovation

Why digital biomarkers are vital for a patient-empowering connected health future
The pandemic has accelerated our path towards an inevitable conclusion – a digitally connected healthcare future that empowers both patients and carers alike. The opportunities are out there, so what’s the next step for pharma companies and device developers with ambitions in the space?
- Digital health

From glowing flowers to decomposing buildings – it was an illuminating week for biotech in the Bay Area
From almost three years of pandemic restrictions to a three-day biology bonanza. Senior Biomedical Engineer Ellen Simmons gets back on the live conference trail with a visit to Built With Biology, formerly SynBioBeta. Here she shares her experiences – and enthusiasm for helping to drive the biotech ecosystem forwards…
- Bioinnovation
- Sustainability
- Synthetic biology

Inside CPGs – experts share their views of how CPGs can turn profit from digitally enabled products
Digital transformation is a huge topic, sweeping across many aspects of our lives, from ecommerce to the digitalization of internal systems. When we partnered with news publisher CGT (Consumer Goods Technology) for its latest webinar, we were keen to focus on a specific part of this topic - digitally enabled products. It was energizing to be joined by a world-class panel of industry experts as we swapped insights into how CPG brands can rise to this challenge.
- Connectivity & IoT
- Digital service innovation
- User Experience (UX)

CC and The Engine venture ecosystem: an alignment of ambition
Our brand relaunch has landed just as we ramp up our commitment to The Engine, the ambitious venture capital firm spun out of MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) to support ‘Tough Tech’ companies and solve key challenges in climate change, human health and advanced systems. What’s particularly energizing is that as a strategic partner, we get to engage with founders of disruptive start-ups who are so passionate, driven and mission focused. The alignment with our own renewed purpose couldn’t be stronger.
- AI & Analytics
- Bioinnovation
- Connectivity & IoT
- Robotics
- Sensing

Will private 5G networks address connectivity concerns for utilities?
Utilities are well aware of the potential of private 5G networks and are keen to explore the full spectrum of digital systems for next generation connectivity – including AI, IoT, and Edge Compute. Oftentimes though this interest can be tinged with trepidation and concern around how to implement such technologies, especially given several complex connectivity requirements of modern utilities. Private 5G can meet the connectivity requirements of modern utilities – but the right strategy is needed.
- Connectivity & IoT

Collaborating with Cambridge University on a breakthrough in advanced optical sensing
The ability to count and track individual units of light can have an exciting range of applications across medtech and beyond, as a recent collaboration with Cambridge University has proved. Principal electronics engineer Oliver Hicks explains more…
- Electronics & ASICs
- Optics
- Physical sciences
- Sensing
- Signal processing

The World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit gets down to business on regenerative agriculture and carbon capture
The tangible sense of joy in being able to interact with people face-to-face at last week’s World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit soon switched to a business-like determination to confront the big issues of the day. I had plenty of lively discussions about forward strategies as the industry comes to grips with the challenges – and vast opportunities – of doing the right thing for both business and the planet.
- AI & Analytics
- Sensing
- Strategic advice

Ophthalmology - forging a bold vision for 2035
We have arrived at the most significant crossroads in ophthalmology that any of us can ever remember. It’s time for a bold vision of 2035 that all of us can share...
- Digital health
- Human factors
- Physical sciences