Richard Hall MSc, BA(Hons), CMgr MCMI, FRSA
Product design consultancy founder I Innovation I Leadership I Mentor I Consultant
United Kingdom
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About
I help organisations of various sizes understand, strategise and monetise their innovation. If you have a particular challenge with innovation or product development please get in touch, my email is [email protected]
Who do I work with?
I work with a range of organisations including entrepreneurs, start-ups, spin-outs, SME’s, manufacturers, PLC’s, Universities and the research arm of NHS England. I also work in a range of industries including medical, consumer, industrial, healthcare and nursery to name a few. Although I am based in the UK my work has global reach.
How do I do it?
I have over thirty years demonstrable experience in innovation, research, engineering, product development and manufacture. Every project is different and requires a tailored strategy in order to maximise the potential of the innovation. I work very closely with clients, from early stage research through to commercialisation. My approach varies and is dependant on the organisations experience in innovation, their appetite, where they are and where they want to get to.
What’s the process?
Making money from innovation is a complex and challenging journey with many pitfalls along the way. Working with me you will learn about the different types of strategy, why good ideas fail and the most appropriate process for success. This is something I am passionate about. I write and lecture about innovation, create innovation masterclasses, mentor and deliver key note speeches.
What's the capability?
In addition to working with clients I also run an innovation agency www.pd-m.com. The team are highly skilled, agile and deliver high quality results to clients in the UK and overseas. At our studio we have a fully equipped environment including a workshop, 3D printers and virtual reality. The business is award winning and ISO 9001 accredited.
If you are new to innovation, need additional innovation capacity, require some input to a project or a sounding board please contact me. I’m very happy to have an exploratory conversation to see how I can help you. My email is [email protected] or direct message me here on Linked In to start a conversation.
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Today marks the launch of the iphone!
Today marks the launch of the iphone!
By Richard Hall MSc, BA(Hons), CMgr MCMI, FRSA
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Shaking things up at Polaroid
Shaking things up at Polaroid
By Richard Hall MSc, BA(Hons), CMgr MCMI, FRSA
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Sorry Boris, I got you wrong. My reflection on this week.
Sorry Boris, I got you wrong. My reflection on this week.
By Richard Hall MSc, BA(Hons), CMgr MCMI, FRSA
Contributions
Activity
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Happy #InternationalDogDay 🐶. We love having Roxy around the office putting smiles on our faces. She’s out of office this week having a well earned…
Happy #InternationalDogDay 🐶. We love having Roxy around the office putting smiles on our faces. She’s out of office this week having a well earned…
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Prepare for an engaging session on Sep 15 at ESMO - European Society for Medical Oncology Congress 2024! Learn from experts about successful scalp…
Prepare for an engaging session on Sep 15 at ESMO - European Society for Medical Oncology Congress 2024! Learn from experts about successful scalp…
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Paxman Scalp Cooling Reports Strong Q2 2024 Results📈🚀 Paxman Scalp Cooling has released its Q2 2024 report, showcasing a quarter marked by…
Paxman Scalp Cooling Reports Strong Q2 2024 Results📈🚀 Paxman Scalp Cooling has released its Q2 2024 report, showcasing a quarter marked by…
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Experience
Education
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University of Leeds
MSc Senior Leadership
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Modules covered over the two years part-time study included Strategy for Business Leaders, Managing Change and Innovation, Positive Leadership, Tackling Global Challenges, Digital Business Technologies, Methods of Enquiry, Management Decision Making and Finance for Practice. My Thesis area of research was ‘A live Business project to gain insight from a qualitative study of organisations from start-up to maturity, with particular focus on the journey from founder to leader and influencing…
Modules covered over the two years part-time study included Strategy for Business Leaders, Managing Change and Innovation, Positive Leadership, Tackling Global Challenges, Digital Business Technologies, Methods of Enquiry, Management Decision Making and Finance for Practice. My Thesis area of research was ‘A live Business project to gain insight from a qualitative study of organisations from start-up to maturity, with particular focus on the journey from founder to leader and influencing factors’.
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Intellectual Property Office
Intellectual Property Masterclass
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Leeds University Business School
10,000 Small Businesses
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Sponsored by Goldman Sachs, the programme is targeted at small businesses and social enterprises with clear ambitions to expand. The goal of the programme is to provide participants with tools and resources to help them lay the foundation for long-term sustainable growth and job creation in their communities.
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Volunteer Experience
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Assessor
SparkFund
- Present 7 years
SparkFund is an ERDF funded innovation support and grants programme that will help you to improve or develop exciting new products, services or processes. The fund offers innovation vouchers, grants R&D grants and low carbon grants. I'm an assessor advising on the submissions and suitability for applicants being awarded.
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Judging panel member
The RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce)
- 9 months
The RSA Student Design Awards is a global curriculum and annual competition for higher education students and recent graduates run by the RSA. Each year the Awards challenge emerging designers to tackle a range of design briefs focused on pressing social, environmental and economic issues. I'm involved in the judging process, from creating the shortlist to the final winner.
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Business mentor
Wildfire
- 3 years 2 months
Education
Wildfire was an initiative set up by Yorkshire Forward. Its purpose was to select business leaders and partner them with young entrepreneurial talent, in order to provide experience and support in order for the entrepreneuer to develop their business idea.
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Qualified Mental Health First Aider
St Johns Ambulance
- 1 month
Mental Health First Aid is a training course which teaches people how to identify, understand and help someone who may be experiencing a mental health issue. I'm not a therapist, but I am trained to listen, reassure and respond, even in a crisis – and potentially stop a crisis from happening. I can recognise warning signs of mental ill health and empower someone to access the support they might need for recovery or successful management of symptoms.
Publications
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Collaborative approach to re-design of a lift device for Gas Insufflation-Less Laparoscopic Surgery (GILLS) in Low and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs)
SAGE
Abstract:
Aim: Our aim was to address current LMIC user limitations of a GILLS lift device for laparoscopic abdominal surgery, using a collaborative design approach with LMIC partners to develop a next generation device.
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Evaluating the use of participatory and frugal methods to re-design a device to facilitate laparoscopic surgery in low-resource settings
Submitter top IDEAL conference 2020, Amsterdam
Presenting Author: Millie Marriott Webb
Introduction:
Providing surgical equipment for Low and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) is more complex than simply repurposing technology developed for western markets. New surgical technologies must be designed specifically for low-resource settings, ensuring their affordability, availability, accessibility and appropriateness with safety and high-quality.
Objective:
In this ‘Development’ project, an inter-disciplinary team…Presenting Author: Millie Marriott Webb
Introduction:
Providing surgical equipment for Low and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) is more complex than simply repurposing technology developed for western markets. New surgical technologies must be designed specifically for low-resource settings, ensuring their affordability, availability, accessibility and appropriateness with safety and high-quality.
Objective:
In this ‘Development’ project, an inter-disciplinary team investigated design approaches to this non- trivial process whilst re-designing a surgical system for Gas Insufflation-Less Laparoscopic Surgery (GILLS), which enables performing laparoscopic surgery in low-resource settings.
Methods:
The design process utilised popular approaches to medical device design for LMICs, including principles from frugal innovation (optimising performance for function and dramatically reducing cost) and participatory design (facilitating understanding of LMIC contexts through involvement of end-users in the design process). Over 5 months, the team designed the RAIS (Retractor for Abdominal Insufflation-less Surgery) device. Rural surgeons then participated in a study in India to evaluate the effectiveness of the design approach. They performed diagnostic laparoscopy on cadavers using the RAIS and provided feedback through semi-structured interviews.
Discussion/Conclusion:
While study feedback revealed nuanced aspects which were not obvious to designers, none were critical to the system performance. Adopting participatory design was fundamental to this success. The case study highlighted challenges in the design process when user opinions contrasted and little evidence was available to make design decisions, reaffirming that projects in Global Surgery should involve all stakeholders throughout the process, forming close collaborative partnerships and undertaking in-country research where there is a paucity of published information. -
Translating healthcare innovation from academia to industry
Sage Journals
Innovation lies at the heart of academia, and universities generate high-quality, intellectual property on a large scale. However, commercial translation of this intellectual property has traditionally been poor, particularly in the critical healthcare sector. It is critical that this situation is addressed to ensure that innovation from research institutes can fulfil its potential and progress to have a genuine impact on the outside world. In this article, we consider the nature of healthcare…
Innovation lies at the heart of academia, and universities generate high-quality, intellectual property on a large scale. However, commercial translation of this intellectual property has traditionally been poor, particularly in the critical healthcare sector. It is critical that this situation is addressed to ensure that innovation from research institutes can fulfil its potential and progress to have a genuine impact on the outside world. In this article, we consider the nature of healthcare innovation in academia and ways in which commercial translation of intellectual property can be successfully realised. This is first analysed from an academic perspective, with a particular focus on how academic motivations and work practices can shape successful translation. We then switch perspective to examine the same process from an industry perspective, looking at the characteristics and expectations involved in the innovation life cycle. To place these analyses in context, we present a case study examining a project being undertaken to commercialise a novel surgical instrument, the intra-abdominal platform, from identification of clinical need, through the development life cycle, to com- mercialisation of the system. We reflect on the successes and challenges encountered during the intra-abdominal plat- form project, the broader lessons learned and in conclusion use these to emphasise how academia can adopt practices to better translate intellectual property in the future.
Patents
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Medical device
Filed GB 2000200.2
Medical device
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Medical device
Filed GB 2000199.6
Medical device
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Apparatus for sensing
Issued GB GB2556973
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Vehicle Safety Barrier
Filed GB GB1801050.4
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Intra Abdominal Platform
Filed GB 1601858.2
Co-inventor for a medical device in collaboration with the University of Leeds, UK
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Furniture
Filed GB GB1502094.4
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Coffee machine
Filed GB GB1419967.3
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Safety Mechanism
Filed GB PCT/GB2013/052212
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Obstetric Forceps
Filed GB PCT/GB2011/050790
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Chair with incorporated scale
GB 1911923.9
Honors & Awards
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Fellowship
RSA
Fellow of the RSA
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NHS Innovations Award
Medipex
Pd-m International Limited were very pleased that its work of the Intra Abdominal Platform, in collaboration with the University of Leeds has been shortlisted for the innovations awards.
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Bionow Awards
Bionow
Finalists in the category of Healthcare Project of The Year.
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Medilink Business Awards
Medilink Yorkshire and Humber
Finalists in the Medilink Business Awards for Partnership with Academia
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NHS Innovations Award
Medipex
Pd-m International Limited were very pleased that its work with the innovation of obstric forceps received the prestigious Medipex NHS innovations award.
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Best International Business of the Year
YEDA
Pd-m International Limited were very pleased to accept the award of Best International Business of the Year, for its industry collaborations between the UK and China businesses.
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Grand Designs Magazine Eco Product of the Year
Grand Designs
Pd-m International Limited were very pleased that the work with its client in the innovation of eco-technology, which lead to the prestigious Grand Designs Magazine Eco Product of the Year.
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42 under 42
Yorkshire Business Insider Magazine
Richard was very pleased to be shortlisted as one of Yorkshire's emerging entrepreneurial talent in the Yorkshire region. The prestigious awards are held every year, from which the entrepreneurs go onto achieve great things.
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Engineering Apprentice of the Year
Rolls-Royce Plc
I was very privileged to be awarded apprentice of the year for my hard work through my apprenticeship and night class studies.
Organizations
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Manufacturing Advisory Service
Consultant
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Young Institute of Directors
Committee member
-Founder member of the Institute of Directors Yorkshire region
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British Design Innovation
Regional Director
Outside of Pd-m International Limited Richard is a Regional Director for British Design Innovation (BDI). BDI is the trade body representing Industrial Designers involved in product, service and interaction design.
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