Mindsheet
Raglan Tribe
Managing Director
Helping your business develop breakthrough products and services in a complex world.
"Free Report - The Innovation Lens: A Secret Blueprint for identifying the Next Big Thing ! "
Dear Business Leader,
Business has never been so competitive and the ability to develop and launch new products and services is critical. If you don’t innovate, then survival in the long term will be tough. Yet 90% of new developments result in commercial failure.
If you’ve ever gone through the pain and frustration of trying to develop a new product or an innovative solution for your company you will already be aware of the many pitfalls. Even if you have the right people and processes in place, hand on heart can you always tell exactly what your customers want? All too often “supposedly winning” product ideas flop in the market. So imagine being able to figure out exactly what your market wants to buy, the competitive definition of your offering and the exact sales pitch they want to hear! |
My free report discusses some of the issues with innovation and highlights proven processes that help you get inside the head of the customer to ensure every launch is a winner. Topics covered include:
• Why you shouldn’t listen to the voice of the customer
• The search for Six-Sigma innovation
• How to identify innovation hotspots
• Winning ways to generate concepts
Furthermore, I will send you the Mindsheet newsletter “The Innovation Lens”, packed with innovation tips and news.
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Wishing you great innovation success,
Raglan Tribe
Managing Director
Mindsheet Ltd
Mindsheet Wins MOD Contract to Develop a Portable “Battle-Winning” Reconnaissance Robot
Published February 25, 2009 | 
Mindsheet Press Release
25 February 2009
Mindsheet is pleased to announce that we have been awarded an MOD contract by the CDE (Centre for Defence Enterprise) to develop a rugged mini-robot, named Testudo, to act as a reconnaissance scout for troops.
Originally unveiled at the MOD Grand Challenge 2008, the robot scout is a platoon level asset that supports hazardous ground manoeuvres such as early warning of threat events, clearance of hazardous ground, compounds and buildings and could even help locate enemy fire. This low cost, man portable device acts as a force multiplier that could ultimately save lives.
The £28k contract, awarded in January 2009, will enable Mindsheet to further develop the robot for field testing in March with a view to realise the production system later in 2009.
Mindsheet has already been awarded Innovation of the Year by The News, Portsmouth, for work on the robot to date.
Raglan Tribe, the Managing Director of Mindsheet, says:
“It’s a great honour to be given the opportunity to support our troops. Hopefully, this programme will allow us to get the technology in a state where it could help save lives. If so, then our job is done”.
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Mindsheet Wins Innovation Of The Year Award
Published January 23, 2009 | 
The Awards were a chance to honour companies and organisations across the South East Hampshire region. The nine award categories reflected the merits of team work, community involvement, innovation and high achievement. Forty-eight entries made it onto the shortlist across all categories.
Innovation of the Year Tropy
Amid such an amazing range of local business talent at the Gala Awards Dinner, we were happily surprised to win the Innovation of the Year category -
“For individuals or businesses which had shown a proclivity to ‘think outside the box’, becoming the first in their field to embark on a particular course of action, or having researched and developed a particularly novel and useful system or product”.
for our Testudo robot spy buggy – a remote control reconnaissance device that combat troops can send into enemy territory to scout for hazards.
The robot was developed in response to the 2008 MOD Grand Challenge. It gave us the perfect platform to demonstrate how we work with our customers to gain a deep understanding of their operations and behaviour. We specialise in helping companies develop breakthrough products and services in highly complex environments.
Throughout the exercise we involved soldiers with recent active service experience to guide the development so that it was soldier friendly and relevant. Following our success at the Grand Challenge we are in discussions with the MoD who recently agreed to fund the next stage of development.
Learn more about our exploits in the MOD Grand Challenge.
Posted in Products & Services | 
Hampshire, innovation, innovation award, Mindsheet, MOD Grand Challenge, portsmouth, Testudo, The News | 
3 CommentsMindsheet nominated for innovation award
Published January 16, 2009 | As a result of Mindsheet’s work on the Testudo robot, we have now been nominated for an innovation award.
Mindsheet Grand Challenge
Published September 4, 2008 | You are a Company or Platoon commander about to undertake an urban operation, which might culminate in contact with enemy forces. As you enter the urban terrain your views along main streets are relatively good, but are figures in the distance hostile or not? Elsewhere, your line-of-sight is blocked by walls, buildings, shrubbery and all the usual urban clutter, such as power and telephone poles and cables. What waits at the next intersection? What lies round the corner of the next building or concealed in houses or behind rooftop parapets?
Answering those questions is the crux of the MOD Grand Challenge. In response, Mindsheet have designed a cooperative set of miniature autonomous surveillance vehicles with a top speed of 35MPH. The vehicles are based on a rugged remote control toy platform.
Each vehicle can follow a pre-assigned mission plan and then wirelessly report back detected threats that may include: snipers, IEDs, militia and technicals to a base station. This allows the remote generation of situation reports without risk to ground troops who do not have to enter the hazard zone.
IED Bomb Inspection by Mindsheet Robot
Soldiers trial the Testudo robots for Improvised Explosive Device inspection.
Raglan Tribe demonstrates the Testudo robot to Vicki Butler-Henderson from the Channel 5 Fifth Gear show
The Mindsheet Grand Challenge Team
The Testudo Robot in its early stages of design
Chris Burgess operating the Ground Control Station
Testudo finds the technical threat
Testudo at Copehill Down
Testudo crosses a puddle
Testudo finds a marksman
Mindsheet R&D Business Exchange
Published January 20, 2008 | There are now over 500 articles and resources on the R&D Business Exchange that help support strategic business development. Free registration allows all members to contribute articles too.
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