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.
Your email address will never be sold, traded or used by anyone else. Plus you can unsubscribe in one click at ANY time.
Wishing you great innovation success,
Raglan Tribe
Managing Director
Mindsheet Ltd
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
War of the future: Robot versus robot
Published May 2, 2008 | From the Toronto Star, May 02, 2008
LONDON–A fleet of tiny tanks, each no bigger than a breadbox, cruising in remote-control formation down the dusty alleys of Afghanistan to neutralize roadside bombs…
…The Grand Challenge (detailed at www.challenge.mod.uk) was launched in 2006 in an attempt to solve modern military riddles …
… Several of the systems entailed futuristic flying bots built from scratch. Others, such as the fleet-formation ground system by the British firm Mindsheet, are adapting conceptual robot armies based on over-the-counter cars available at hobby shops everywhere.
“We chose not to reinvent the wheel but to work instead with the wheels readily available. That way we are able to more easily concentrate on providing a tool that a soldier in Afghanistan would be able to begin using immediately,” said Mindsheet managing director Raglan Tribe …
…”It is a weird extrapolation, the idea that war is becoming a scenario of `Your robots versus our robots,’ Why not just fight it out on a video game instead?” said Mindsheet’s Tribe. “But this is where things are moving.”
Read full article at www.thestar.com
Mini-helicopters, flying saucers and robot buggies fight it out for war games prize
Published May 2, 2008 | “We call it boys’ toys for warfare,” bellows Chris Burgess, as the hip-hop act Stromkern roars “Come Armageddon come” from the plasma screen behind him. On the video a radio-controlled buggy is zipping along a dusty street, its onboard camera swivelling left and right, on the lookout for snipers and roadside bombs that might lie ahead.
Burgess belongs to Mindsheet, one of 11 teams unveiled as finalists in the Ministry of Defence’s most ambitious – and unusual – attempt to bring hi-tech science to the frontline. Called the Grand Challenge, the £4m project calls on engineers to design a robot that can scour an urban area for enemy combatants and explosives and report back, preferably without human intervention …”
Read full article at www.guardian.co.uk
From The Guardian, Friday May 2 2008
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chris burgess, grand challenge, Mindsheet, MOD Grand Challenge, plasma screen | 
Leave a commentITI Techmedia Invests £4.3M In R&D Programme To Reduce Errors In The Software Design Process
Published February 5, 2008 | ITI Scotland, Feb 05, 2008
Market for tools to deliver greater efficiency to the software industry
set to reach $3.8 billion by 2016
ITI Techmedia today announced plans to create software design and development technologies which will play a role in reducing the incidence of critical errors in commonly applied software design processes.
ITI Techmedia has engaged the services of a number of R&D providers. Mindsheet, BitWise and Roke Manor Research (Roke) have been contracted to undertake the initial work required in research and system design. It is expected that additional organisations will be added to complement the skills of this core team during the lifetime of the programme.
Read full article at www.itiscotland.com
Posted in Articles | bitwise, critical errors, initial work, ITI, roke manor research, Techmedia | Leave a commentMindsheet 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.
Visit the Mindsheet R&D Business Exchange now.
Innovation Management Guide
Published January 10, 2008 | 
Innovation like clockwork is an easy to read, 22 page guide that covers all facets of innovation in technology type companies. The paper discusses the importance of innovation and the main factors that contribute to innovation performance. Also, included is a useful questionnaire for assessing idea strength and some key pointers to the future of innovation.
This free but valuable 22 page, easy to read, guide details the major factors that drive innovation and it specifically addresses:
- The strategic importance of innovation
- 10 major causes of innovation failure
- Proven methods for managing innovation
- Mechanisms for managing collaborative innovation
- The importance of invention uniqueness and IP protection
- The drive towards open innovation
- A questionnaire to score idea uniqueness upfront
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