
The latest thought leadership from our expert teams

COVID – a preview of the retail service model future?
Consumer choice has been a guiding retail principle for decades, but recently much of the world has had no choice but to buy online for everything except supermarket essentials...
- AI & Analytics
- Digital service innovation
- Innovation management
- Strategic advice

COVID – can automation rise to supply chain and labour challenges?
The focus on automation has sharpened in recent months, following global disruption of supply chains and labour. But what can be done now to speed the delivery of such vital solutions to help in the aftershock of the pandemic?
- Digital service innovation
- Human factors
- Innovation management
- Strategic advice

The AI opportunity - ensuring AI investments pay-off
Excitement around the business opportunities presented by artificial intelligence (AI) is palpable, but it comes hand-in-hand with very tough investment decisions...
- AI & Analytics

How to train an engineer successfully – when vital bioinnovation depends on it
It could only happen at Cambridge Consultants. An internal training course for a group for engineers eager to gain some understanding of how it is possible to engineer biology. A challenge certainly… but also indicative of the unique blend of biology, engineering and advanced computation that is enabling our breakthrough work in bioinnovation.
- Product realisation
- Project management
- Strategic advice

COVID - tools to maintain both productivity and sanity!
‘WFH’ is an acronym now universally recognised. But even before the pandemic, remote working had been slowly increasing, with around 5% of UK employees primarily working from home in 2019 and 30% having experience of it. The benefits can include more productive working time, fewer office distractions and more flexibility, to name a few...
- AI & Analytics
- Digital service innovation
- Human factors
- Innovation management
- Strategic advice

The AI opportunity - overcoming a lack of quality training data
Tim Ensor shared his insights from working with a global medical device company to invent deep learning algorithms to amplify clinical trials data by 30x.
- AI & Analytics

The COVID questions – shaping our response for an innovative post-pandemic world
The world is in crisis. Simple, short-term survival is everyone’s top priority, whether that’s as a nation, a government, a business, a family or a lonely and forgotten self-isolating individual. But the overwhelming necessity to endure has always been the mother of invention. Where will the crisis lead us?
- AI & Analytics
- Digital service innovation
- Human factors
- Innovation management
- Strategic advice

Reducing risk with cross-sector thinking: an aeroponics example
Leveraging a broad range of technical experiences, from seemingly unrelated fields can help solve critical problems. This example looks at aeroponics in terms of challenges within the vertical farming sector, showing how insight in the right place can transform work across industries...
- Fluids & thermodynamics
- Mechanical engineering
- Physical sciences

The challenges of human/robot interaction in the real world
Robotics can enable humans to work better, faster and more precisely. We specialise in developing robotics in areas not traditionally automated, and sometimes in areas where automation was not even thought possible...
- AI & Analytics
- Embedded software
- Mechanical engineering
- Robotics
- Sensing

Synthetic biology: plotting a route from start-up to commercial value
One of the advantages of my role here at Cambridge Consultants is getting to swap thoughts and opinions with some of the brightest minds in the bioeconomy. Collaborating with members of the SynBioBeta network...
- Bioinnovation
- Innovation management
- Strategic advice

Enabling autonomous vehicles to see in adverse conditions
During 2020, advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) will continue their rise as one of the fastest growing technology segments in the automotive market. As manufacturers look to increase safety and improve the driving experience...
- AI & Analytics
- Connectivity & IoT
- Digital service innovation
- Electronics & ASICs
- Sensing

My CES 2020 predictions: what happens in Vegas has implications for business the world over
I've written blogs over the last couple of years on predictions for CES 2020, and sitting on the plane on the way to Las Vegas is the ideal place to carry on the tradition.
- AI & Analytics
- Digital service innovation
- Industrial design