Adrian Cole
Partner @Disruptive Lemonade
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WORK HISTORY
Partner @Disruptive Lemonade
Birmingham, GB
Experienced innovation facilitator able to confidently work with technical teams in a variety of disciplines to support stretch initiatives and develop internal innovation capabilities within corporate and HE environments Corporate and public access innovation learning using Systematic Innovation/TRIZ in UK, France, Brazil and USA via workshops and supported online learning platforms. Corporate innovation capability auditing. Open Innovation Research Expertise; TRIZ, Disruptive Innovation, Customer Led Innovation Recent Projects; In depth customer awareness research for global brand, through journey mapping and interviews to provide focused technology development insights Stakeholder innovation breakthrough workshops involving technology partners and suppliers Up skilling of engineering teams within UK, France & Germany to provide a common innovation process tool kit and internal expertise EU Leonardo funded project “European Innovation & Enterprise Academy”; with; ProAcademy,(Finland), AJE (Spain), Saxeed (Germany) Past Clients; Jaguar-Land Rover, VAP (Bulgaria) Pera, ZF (Brazil), Royal Mail, Innospec, Avon, MAS, Dura Automotive, Delphi (Brazil), Bentley, Aeristech Academic (HE) Innovation & Enterprise Training: BCU (UG) Warwick University (MSc) Cranfield University (MSc) Research; Royal Academy of Engineering sponsored Innovation Effectiveness programme (2005), EPSRC funded Dynamic Innovation Communities research with Cranfield University (2008)
EDUCATION
University of Bath
PhD, Automotive Engineering
University of Bath
BSc Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
ABOUT ADRIAN COLE
Adrian has extensive business development, management and technical expertise across the transportation and manufacturing sectors gained through a career encompassing industry and academia at both managerial and professorial levels. Adrian gain his technical engineering expertise within automotive powertrain, with a Phd at Bath University, post doctoral research at Imperial College and then in industry working for a number of automotive consultancies (ERA, MIRA) including a secondment at General Motors, Detroit. Adrian moved into academia to initially hold a professorial post at Birmingham City University and more recent as the programme lead for the £67m Digital Aviation Research and Technology Centre at Cranfield University. During his career Adrian has coached over 150 engineers and managers from UK, Brazil, France, Germany, USA and Singapore, including in some leading academic institutions (University of Warwick, Singapore Institute of Management and Cranfield University) to understand and use proven tools and methods for innovation and creativity. Adrian’s expertise and experience extends to leading concepts such as; Lean Innovation, Lean Startup, Customer Informed Innovation (e.g. Jobs to be Done), TRIZ, Disruptive Innovation, Innovation Strategy, Innovation Management. Adrian is a past Director of the Society of Automotive Engineering, a Fellow of both the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and the Royal Aeronautical Society plus the author of multiple technical papers
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