Front-end innovation

Discovering the right opportunities for you

Background

Balancing future customer needs with your capabilities, competitive and technology trends and ever-changing regulatory context is the crux of successful innovation.

Lucid’s team works with clients and expert collaborators to look ahead.  We challenge pre-conceptions, find people who matter, listen and navigate constraints to spot the valuable opportunities that underly solutions with impact.

Discovery

Using a suite of tools, years of experience and know-how, we can help you build the right foundations for innovation.

Workshops

Bringing your team together with insightful experts is a springboard to valuable ideas and shared vision.  We facilitate ad-hoc and regular group workshops resulting in ground-breaking collaboration, products and services.

Gap analysis

To discover the optimum return on investment we can identify barriers to innovation and routes to navigate through the cost, scheduling and risk implications.  Our team’s experience in technology, IP and regulation and human-factors helps deliver early, informed insight.

Customer and user insights

Talk to people about the value of theoretical ideas, products and services and they often find it difficult to provide informed feedback.

Discovering the right questions,  role-playing real scenarios with visuals, models, and mock-ups, we can develop deeper understanding and better information to support development decisions.

Technology and process selection

Deep experience of development and manufacturing with many different tools and partners helps Lucid provide independent, informed advice about what could best match your needs.

Defining your priorities and weighting factors like time, cost to reach markets and sustainability, we help focus on the most viable options.

Market scoping and analysis

With a network of opinion leaders in health and wellness, and awareness of trends, healthcare organisations and user priorities, we combine qualitative and quantitative research to align design requirements to deliver the value that markets require.

Design

Lucid is a design-led business.  We collaborate with your team to make ideas as real as possible, as early as possible.

We’ll help provide robust evidence to justify your investment.

Whether the right media is sketches, storyboards, card models or working prototypes, we help the people that matter understand, contribute and buy-into visions for their future.

We are inquisitive, independent and experienced enough to see problems from new angles and develop new opportunities.

Delivery

Involved from the outset, our team has the capacity, capability and competence to deliver innovation at greater pace.

In the medical device space, regulation and guidance focusses on evidencing risk-management in the full life-cycle of people’s interaction with products and services.

Front-end innovation techniques are the right way to build firm foundations for future development.