Technophobia and the Technology Strategy Board empowering UK innovation.
23/07/2009
We are delighted to announce that we have been appointed by the Technology Strategy Board to create a new web-based system to promote collaboration and innovation in UK business.
By creating this new system the Technology Strategy Board aims to provide a collaborative environment which will help to create a step change in the UK’s innovation performance, raising confidence in innovation and generating commercial benefits for business.
The brief is to develop the largest, most interactive and respected open knowledge sharing platform in the UK, breaking down the barriers associated with making valuable relationships to solve innovation challenges.
The Technology Strategy Board is an executive non-departmental public body (NDPB), established by the Government in 2007 and sponsored by the newly formed Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS). It promotes innovation in many ways. As well as investing in programmes and projects, much of its work is in spreading knowledge, understanding policy, spotting opportunities and bringing people together to solve problems or make new advances.
The project will enable the innovators in business, research, and government to collaborate and share knowledge online as well as supporting collaboration offline, driving forward the rate of innovation in the UK. It will be a key tool for the knowledge transfer networks managed by the Technology Strategy Board, which already number 50,000 members.
The system will also allow the Technology Strategy Board to manage and award competitions and funding for research and development online; further reducing the resources, administration and timescales required to get new projects up and running.
The ambitious objectives and timescales of this project present a significant innovation challenge in themselves and call for a modular approach both in terms of delivery and the technology architecture. Robust and dynamic project management and development techniques will be employed to ensure the system is able to adapt in order to accommodate emerging requirements from the innovation community.
The value of the contract is around £1.5m in the first year followed by an estimated £1m over the following 3 years.
Amelia Thorne, Managing Director said, ‘The fact that we has been chosen to develop this prestigious and ambitious project is down to our dedicated team who really believe in its importance and have worked so hard to secure this contract.’
Chris Dymond, Director of Business Innovation added, “We’re massively excited at the prospect of designing and building this system. It’s going to be challenging I’m sure, but it’s also going to allow us to learn a huge amount about how to enable and manage lots of communities. And these communities are going to be collaborating on a vast range of subjects at lots of different scales. We’re really going to dedicate ourselves to building tools that help users do this every day as well as rationalising and automating a lot of the operational work of the Technology Strategy Board itself.”
Commenting on the contract award Steve Price, Head of IT at the Technology Strategy Board, said ‘Technophobia was chosen because of their ability to provide thought leadership in addition to the high level of delivery.’
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