
The latest thought leadership from our expert teams

Building firm foundations for effective AI-powered innovation
The buzz around potential applications for AI continues to grow. The trouble is that the excitement is often not tempered with a solid understanding of the practical requirements for innovating with AI. So let me cut through the noise with a simple but heartfelt message.
- AI & Analytics
- Innovation management
- Strategic advice

Data analytics is the key to unlocking new revenue streams from carbon farming
With the Cop26 summit in Glasgow providing a noisy, politically charged backdrop via the mainstream media, there was a real sense of relevance and urgency in the air as I contributed to last week’s virtual REAP Conference, organised by Agri-TechE.
- AI & Analytics
- Innovation management
- Robotics
- Sensing
- Sustainability

Warehouse automation: innovators must take a system thinking approach to scale up successfully
Fresh from her panel appearance at the recent Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMR) and Logistics Conference in Memphis, Oli Qirko reflects on the need for warehouse automation to ‘get moving’.
- AI & Analytics
- Innovation management
- Robotics
- Sensing

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

Domestic appliance brands must adopt a radical, digital-first mindset to get ahead
Product owners in appliance brands across the world are sitting on the threshold of extraordinary digital opportunities – but a radical change of mindsets is vital if they are to take advantage of them.
- Digital service innovation
- Innovation management
- Product realisation
- 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

From emissions to sequestration, how does your product’s carbon modelling shape up?
Over a series of discussions with clients on sustainability we’ve been building a quick and accessible modelling tool to model the carbon cost implications of typical high-volume products across a variety of markets.
- AI & Analytics
- Innovation management
- Strategic advice
- Sustainability

Our sustainable materials database is enabling innovation in the drive to net zero
The ambition to reduce or eliminate single-use plastics from the world’s supply chains is of course as laudable as it is essential. I’m proud to be part of a team of colleagues dedicated to doing something about it – by creating a guide that is helping innovators switch to alternatives.
- Bioinnovation
- Innovation management
- Product realisation
- Sustainability

How to spur climate targets in 2021 while juggling economic recovery from COVID-19
Nathan Wrench, Head of Sustainability at Cambridge Consultants, joins Gulf Intelligence to discuss how to spur climate targets in 2021 while juggling economic recovery from Covid-19.
- Digital service innovation
- Innovation management
- Strategic advice

Middle East Energy Transition Dialogues
Nathan Wrench, Head of Sustainability Innovation at Cambridge Consultants will be discussing pressing topics, from climate finance and technology advancements, to the new era of mobility and the potential of hydrogen and much more.
- Digital service innovation
- Innovation management
- Product realisation

Faster-to-market innovation with multi-modal R&D
The world’s most innovative companies do not have the largest R&D teams, they combine their in-house capabilities with a wide range of external resources.
- Innovation management
- Strategic advice

Post COVID - how to deliver an exceptional event experience
The event and theme park industry has been particularly hard hit by COVID with Disney alone suffering a billion-dollar loss in operating income during Q2.
- AI & Analytics
- Innovation management
- Robotics
- User Experience (UX)