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How to find 7,000 ideas in five days

Nigel Watson CIO, Northumbrian Water Group

Northumbrian Water Group has hit on a winning formula for driving innovation, and it all starts with a festival.

24 Jul 2019, 4 min read
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We’ve not long since finished our third Innovation Festival and while many would think it wold be time to relax and reflect on what we’ve achieved, it’s quite the opposite here at NW towers.

Our Innovation team is already busy working their way through all of the amazing ideas and inventions that came out of this year’s event. Analysing data, scoping ideas, following up leads and crunching the numbers. It’s no easy task. Not when you consider that we had more than 3,000 people from over 700 organisations divided up into ten sprint groups, nine daily dash teams and three data hackathons.

We had 118 small businesses and entrepreneurs join us on our five-day journey through inn

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