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Severn Trent Article:  Open innovation with +ADD tackling leakage

Severn Trent Article: Open innovation with +ADD tackling leakage

As part of the event, attendees took part in a design sprint and data hackathon facilitated by innovation consultancy +ADD Strategy.

More than 100 people from 38 organisations joined Severn Trent at the Coventry University Technology Centre to share their ideas as part of the four-day Coventry and Warwickshire Business Festival. Together, they used each other’s expertise to explore new and innovative ways to find leaks for the water company, which serves around 8 million customers in the Midlands and Wales.

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http://www.waterjournal.co.uk/news/severn-trent-goes-businesses-leakage-reduction-ideas/

1Spatial Article:  Our experience at +ADD's  Severn Trent Fusion event

1Spatial Article: Our experience at +ADD's Severn Trent Fusion event

A couple of weeks ago a team from 1Spatial attended a four day Data Hackathon organised by Severn Trent Water and +ADD Strategy. The event offered individuals and teams the opportunity to help Severn Trent increase the efficiency of water supply through improving leakage detection techniques. The ideas the 1Spatial team put forward engaged the Severn Trent team and as a result the team were awarded the award for best analysis. 

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https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/severn-trent-water-reducing-leakage-data-hackathon-steve-penson/

UNITRACC Article:  +ADD and NWG collaboration wins award

UNITRACC Article: +ADD and NWG collaboration wins award

Northumbrian Water Group continues to demonstrate that collaboration is essential to successful innovation. Working with +ADD Strategy, an agile innovation partner that specialises in solving hard problems, the team have won an international WaterAid competition focused on improving hygiene awareness and education delivery for rural communities in Nicaragua.

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https://www.unitracc.com/aktuelles/news/northumbrian-collaborators-win-wateraid-innovators-challenge

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Members of +ADD team are national 'Business Growth Services' advisors

Members of +ADD are now able to access grant funding to support client work under the Business Growth Services programme operated by PERA.  As regional coaches .

For new Business Growth Service clients there is grant funding available for Leadership & Management Training.   In addition to our expertise in business growth you can access  support for Intellectual Property Audits and Design Mentoring which is delivered by Design Coaches from the Design Council and the broader GrowthAccelerator community.
 
Design Mentoring is a high impact form of support which demonstrates how any business can benefit from its powerful influence to develop long-term opportunities for growth.

you can find out more by contacting us directly (paul@addstrategy.co.uk), or by looking at these sites:

GrowthAccelerator: www.ga.businessgrowthservice.greatbusiness.gov.uk/

Manufacturing advisory service (MAS): www.mas.businessgrowthservice.greatbusiness.gov.uk/

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