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Ben Ford is listed as Strategy & Innovation with a Systems Approach at UCL, based in Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom. AeroLeads shows a matched LinkedIn profile for Ben Ford.
Ben Ford previously worked as Independent Consultant at Self-Employed and Guest Lecturer at Ucl. Ben Ford holds Blue Ocean Strategy, Business from Insead.
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Passionate in using strategy, innovation, training, and coaching to help organisations, teams, and individuals to maximise their potential. Enthused by defining and shaping the future with others to find ways to create and capture value.Experience of innovating in many markets and technologies; coupled with a talent for synthesising information across multiple domains I can identify profitable ideas and find ways to solve “impossible” problems.Specialties: Systems Thinking, Training and competence development, Strategic innovation and procurement programs, Customer focussed innovation, workshop facilitation, contract negotiation, Best practice dissemination, Collaborative new product development, Managing intellectual property, Innovation systems, Creating and selecting winning ideas
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Working as an independent consultant, helping clients drive their innovation agendas, developing strategy, accessing funds, navigating public procurement law, using intellectual property
Creating and delivering content on Systems Thinking for Transport Innovation
Creating and delivering content on Systems Thinking for Innovation and Technology Roadmapping
Working with other senior and thought leaders from various public and private sector roles to steer and shape uk work to develop the UKs national digital twin and its supporting business and data ecosystemshttps://digitaltwinhub.co.uk
Recognised Innovation thought leader within Network Rail and GBRTTProcured the largest change in rail demand forecasting since 1970s, commissioning the first telecoms and data science based demand forecasting toolEstablished a strategic procurement led research and innovation function using technology road mapping to secure key knowledge and capability at high leverage Built collaborative relationships across the private sector, UKRI, DfT, Local Government and non-departmental… Show more Recognised Innovation thought leader within Network Rail and GBRTTProcured the largest change in rail demand forecasting since 1970s, commissioning the first telecoms and data science based demand forecasting toolEstablished a strategic procurement led research and innovation function using technology road mapping to secure key knowledge and capability at high leverage Built collaborative relationships across the private sector, UKRI, DfT, Local Government and non-departmental bodies, influencing strategy, policy and fundingPrimary strategic planner for £100M Rail industry Systems Operator Development Programmes and key contributor to Rail Technical Strategy and integrated R&D PlanDesigned and delivered training to Workforce and Graduate Innovation Programmes Show less
Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
Devising the vision, strategy and development roadmaps to transform Network Rails modelling and simulation capabilities. Establishing enterprise architecture & requirements engineering functions. Established use of procurement mechanisms via InnovateUK and Connected Places Catapult; opening new, legally compliant means to source innovative solutionsFacilitated collaborative thought leadership for wider strategic programmes involving RDG, Train Operators, and DfT securing positive outcomes… Show more Devising the vision, strategy and development roadmaps to transform Network Rails modelling and simulation capabilities. Establishing enterprise architecture & requirements engineering functions. Established use of procurement mechanisms via InnovateUK and Connected Places Catapult; opening new, legally compliant means to source innovative solutionsFacilitated collaborative thought leadership for wider strategic programmes involving RDG, Train Operators, and DfT securing positive outcomes and excellent feedback Show less
Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
Helping move rail into the 21st century. Governing seedcorn funds, scouting technologies, contributing to technical strategy, building innovation systems, challenging accepted wisdom, building the business case for making change.
- Customer Facing Work - Facilitated workshops with business leaders in Europe and Middle East including: Innovation strategy creation; Trend analysis; Product ideas creation and development planning; Inventing beyond current IP. Leading to £10M p.a. of further business.Secured orders worth £205,000 leading to a further £1.2M of development work. Supported business developers in conversion of a further £200,000 of ordersWorked with small and large enterprises to implement:… Show more - Customer Facing Work - Facilitated workshops with business leaders in Europe and Middle East including: Innovation strategy creation; Trend analysis; Product ideas creation and development planning; Inventing beyond current IP. Leading to £10M p.a. of further business.Secured orders worth £205,000 leading to a further £1.2M of development work. Supported business developers in conversion of a further £200,000 of ordersWorked with small and large enterprises to implement: Innovation strategy creation; Ideas generation; New product development planning; Portfolio management; Technology transfer. Leading annually to further work worth £10 Million on averageManaged customer relationships from order through delivery and repeat order.Managed delivery of customer innovation projects using multidisciplinary teams including external consultants and contractors - Designing Services and Building Capacity - Creating & implementing new services, designing customer journey and delivery processes, piloting and refining, creating delivery schedules, resource planning, delivery collateral, building resource libraries. training delivery teamsIdentifying and importing best practice, making use of Neuro Linguistic Programming, Spiral Dynamics, TRIZ, Blue Ocean Strategy, TrenDNA and other techniquesCreated and delivered training, leading to more than £7000 revenue benefit per person day of training in 2011 - Change Agency - Planned & co-ordinated business change program including consultation and vision creation activities; diagnosis, solution definition and implementation planning.Coached business leaders through implementation to improve performance and help solve difficult challenges.Facilitated dialogue between departments to help them build understanding and redefine business processes Show less
Collected best practise and created formal procedures and tools, building commitment to new methods then disseminating them across the business. Designed, managed and implemented training program for core bid writing and client liaison skills across UK and European offices. Delivered training and provided support services to existing and new business units.
Mentored team of writers to deliver proposals for public funding on behalf of clients, Took responsibility for Customer facing activities including sales support and project specification, working with Customer’s senior management to develop new product ideas suited to their business and meeting the criteria for accessing public funds.
Market led New Product Development - Working with clients to create ideas for new product offerings. Creating business cases and writing bids to obtain public funding for R&D. Planning development programs; Setting budgets; Recruiting business and research partners, negotiating contracts. Secured in excess of £3 Million of public funds
Introduced Kanban systems, streamlined import management methods, rationalised component sourcing
Taught Science and ICT at this highly regarded specialist science college
Undertaking cystallographic research into the fracture behaviour of boiler plate steels
One week intensive course in one of the worlds leading business schools covering conventional and blue ocean strategy, Including sessions.
Fatigue - Creep - Environment Interactions in Titanium alloy 6246
50% training - Transferable business and engineering skills 50% research - Ceramic matrix composites for aerospace use
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Ben Ford works for UCL.
Ben Ford is listed as Strategy & Innovation with a Systems Approach at UCL.
Ben Ford is based in Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom while working with UCL.
Ben Ford has worked for Self-Employed, Ucl, Cranfield University, Uk National Digital Twin Programme, and Network Rail.
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