We develop products, businesses and people

Technology & Product Development

Technology innovation

  • Identifying, developing, reviewing and applying new technologies for clients

Technology translation

  • Helping clients to understand relevant technologies which might be non-core

  • Translating the language between technical and commercial teams

  • Finding and working with suppliers of new technologies on behalf of clients

Product design

We develop products from ideas to volume production and through-life support

  • System design

  • Wireless communication systems and smart products, especially low-power, low-cost IoT

  • We specify, design, implement, source and test:

    • Electronics: digital, analogue, power, RF

    • Software: embedded, communications, cloud, database, apps

    • Mechanics: concepts, rapid prototypes/ 3D-printing, detail-design, tooling

    • Applied science: sensors and materials

Manufacturing

We have a network of manufacturing partners for low-to-high volumes and simple-to-complex products

  • Design-for-Manufacture and test

  • Manufacturer selection

  • Support for New-Product-Introduction (NPI)

  • Supply chain management

  • Design and implementation of test systems

  • Through-life support: cost-reduction, re-inventing, re-purposing, obsolescence replacement

Quality systems and standards

  • Quality system implementation, pre-audit checks and ongoing system maintenance, for ISO9001 and others

  • Design to medical and Ex standards

Project directing and critical review

  • Technical review

  • Project management review: planning, directing, correction, fire-fighting

Workshops and idea-creation

  • Design

  • Participation

  • Facilitation

CIQ provides technology and product development in electronics, mechanics, software and physical science. We support scale up to manufacture and test

Business Design & Support

Supporting SMEs and multinationals:

  • Introducing new business processes and strategies

  • Growth through sales and efficiency improvement

  • Growth though new products and technology strategies

  • Road-mapping and market-matching

  • Commercialising Intellectual Property (IP) and technology

  • Training

  • Programme and project support

  • Reorganisation, restructuring, outsourcing/ Open Innovation (OI)

  • R&D and productivity improvement

  • Market studies

Designing business models around technology, innovation and processes

  • Growth models for new products, aligned to road-map of releases

  • Addition of new technology to traditional products to enable innovative business models, e.g. smart packaging/ direct to consumer/ services

  • Business and technology risk assessment and management

Introducing service models into product companies

  • Use of connected products and IoT to introduce new service businesses

Business development strategy and support

  • Sales funnel and integrated operations design

Quality systems

  • Quality system implementation, pre-audit checks and ongoing system maintenance and management meeting chair as part of an effective business strategy

Facilitating workshops

  • Process-led ideation and filtering of concepts to deliver new strategies and products or refresh existing propositions against market needs

  • Independent review and facilitation

  • Customer and market facing

Role definitions

  • Support of new roles and job definition and recruitment

CIQ carries out IP commercialisation, business strategy setting, business modelling, road-mapping, quality systems and brainstorming

People & Organisational Development

Organisational review and design

  • Setting up core business structures to deliver results

  • R&D effectiveness and optimisation

  • HR processes (excluding financial, legal or compliance)

  • Supporting recruitment: job definition, role change, recruiting

Coaching and mentoring

We coach and mentor executives and leadership teams with Level-7 qualified staff

  • Help-to-Grow mentoring, helping SMEs to fulfil their potential

  • Entrepreneur and start-up mentoring

  • Helping senior leaders and leadership teams to deliver

Team dynamics

  • Psychometric profiling

  • Mission, vision and values

People development

  • Personal training, career progression

  • Technical training

  • Commercial processes, including business development

  • Individual coaching and mentoring

  • Leadership and management training

Networking and collaborative partnership development

  • Building eco-systems of technology and commercial partners

  • Cross-fertilisation of innovation from partners and sectors

Design and facilitation of internal development programmes

  • Programmes can be for market-led business activities, team development/ building, specific technical needs or career building/ retention