
The latest thought leadership from our expert teams

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 future of vertical farming: the intelligent ecosystem
Vertical farming promises a step change in production density, providing significant efficiency savings with the additional benefit of improved product quality. Vertical farming also presents the only viable option for growing crops within urban environments...
- AI & Analytics
- Innovation management
- Mechanical engineering
- Robotics
- Sensing

Extracting value from e-waste
Year on year we’re producing more and more waste electronics – e-waste. Recovering the valuable materials embedded in e-waste will become significantly more important. At present this is a highly manual process...
- AI & Analytics
- Innovation management
- Sensing

The drug-free approach for managing menopausal hot flushes
This new whitepaper provides insights gained from a series of workshops into women's experiences of menopausal hot flushes, and how these insights can inform the design of (drug-free)...
- Digital health
- Innovation management

Our team was up for the challenge of the British Antarctic Survey’s Decarbonisation Hackathon
CC put forward a team to take part in the British Antarctic Survey’s Decarbonisation Hackathon. The aim was to find new solutions to completely decarbonise the Rothera research base in Antarctica, beyond those that British Antarctic Survey (BAS) had determined could account for the first 70% of their energy demand.
- Innovation management
- Strategic advice
- Sustainability

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

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