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3D Printing - Empowering Sustainable, Distributed Manufacturing

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3D Printing - Empowering Sustainable, Distributed Manufacturing

3D printing is ushering in a new atomic model for physical objects and a new era of pan-industrial competition. Any factory anywhere can potentially manufacture not just parts, but complete products for any number of industries, continually iterate and hyper-personalise these at low cost in response to market demand.

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Augmented and Virtual Reality: Enhancing Our Real World Experience

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Augmented and Virtual Reality: Enhancing Our Real World Experience

As both consumers and organisations struggle with cognitive overload from the rapidly escalating volume and velocity of data from ever more connected devices, AR offers up a much-needed panacea. Where current internet technologies place access to the right information at the right time at our fingertips, with AR, we will now have it in plain sight.

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The Business Value of Design & Design Thinking

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The Business Value of Design & Design Thinking

Design delivers the market value that separates the most desirable brands and businesses from the rest. The deep insights uncovered through the design process lead you to build emotion, meaning and identity into your product or service, wherein lies value to the customer, and your source of differentiation.

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From Facts, Data and Observations to Insights

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From Facts, Data and Observations to Insights

Customer insights are formed by interrogating data, facts and observations and connecting empathically with customers' contextual needs. There are no shortcuts to deriving genuine customer insights. Customers don't always do what they say. Ethnographic research and techniques such as contextual immersion are the key.

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Using trend intelligence to inform innovation

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Using trend intelligence to inform innovation

A critical capability within an innovators DNA is to be able to interrogate and identify the nascent trends arising from innovation at the edge; understand the new expectations these are creating for customers and citizens; and apply these to better serving the needs of your customers, stakeholders and society.

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