“R&D is the most expensive resource of a company, not because of the cost of development or staff but because of the immeasurable cost of developing the wrong thing – the opportunity cost of not having the killer product. I believe every company can have the killer product – they just need to find it, commit to it and develop it.” Colin Dobbyne, award-winning founder of Big Blue Solutions product development consultancy and specialist in disruptive design
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Disruptive product design can turn a vision into a reality. When Big Blue Solutions was approached by Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust to design a unique telementoring system that would link surgeons in the UK and Tanzania, no one thought it could be done. It was. The full story The Link – An Adventure in Africa from the Inside Out is now available on Amazon.
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Managing showers can be problematic for facility managers and estates teams and requires effective measures to mitigate risks such as Legionnaires’ Disease. To assist, W.E.T (Water Environmental Treatment) have developed and launched the innovative - Hygiene 20™ Shower Management system.
Current cleaning regimes in hospitals are often carried out using the traditional ‘hand and bucket’ method, submersing the showers in a biocide and descaler. In addition to the problems of deploying hazardous chemicals in a healthcare setting, W.E.T’s research project has provided evidence to suggest that these
procedures are not as effective as we may think. Results showed hoses with significant counts of microbiology remaining and layers of dead cells and biofilm that go on to become a food source for new bacteria. In search of a more effective approach to shower management, an innovative process for managing the
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task of descaling and disinfecting showers and flexi-hoses is now available and is being adopted by NHS Trusts. Following the successful completion
of R&D trials, W.E.T has invested in a new production facility to manage the cleaning of over 100,000 showers; faster and more effectively than any known process available today.
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