Team Consulting

Team Consulting
Employee-owned
Industry Medical device design and development, consulting
Founded 1986 (1986)
Headquarters Ickleton, Cambridge, UK
Area served
 Worldwide
Key people
 Dan Flicos (CEO)
Andy Fry (Founder)
Jerry Turner (Chairman)
Number of employees
 75-99
Website www.team-consulting.com

Team Consulting is a medical device design and development consultancy. The company works with pharmaceutical companies and medtech businesses globally.

The company is located on the outskirts of Cambridge, UK, and is part of Silicon Fen, the cluster of high-tech businesses which has made the Cambridge area one of the most important technology centres in Europe.[1][2] The majority of the company’s workforce are consultants who offer expertise in industrial design, human factors and ergonomics, electrical, mechanical and software engineering, and in the physical sciences.

History

Team Consulting was founded in 1986 and began as a general product development and engineering consultancy before focusing on the medical sector in the early 1990s. In 2004, the company moved into its current premises, a redeveloped Grade II listed 13th century barn with additional offices, laboratories and workshops in Ickleton, Cambridge.[3]

In 2014, Team completed a staff-led buyout.[4] The buyout involved more than 80% of staff buying equity in the company to ensure ownership remained with the staff, it was open to everybody working at the company.[5]

Work and awards

Team Consulting’s work primarily focuses on the design and development of medical devices, helping companies in areas such as drug delivery (respiratory, parenteral, etc.), critical care, surgery, regenerative medicine and stem cell therapies. The company's work means that it contributes to industry and scientific discussion,[6][7][8] has filed many patents with clients to advance technology and is a thought-leader in areas such as inhaler technology and drug delivery devices.[9]

Team Consulting have won various design and engineering awards for their work with their clients. In 2012, Team Consulting worked with OrganOx, a spin-out company from the University of Oxford to develop a world-first device which keeps a human liver alive outside the body.[10][11][12] This work received the 'Consultancy of the Year' award at the British Engineering Excellence Awards and three Institution of Engineering and Technology awards.[13][14]

Further recent awards include a 2016 Red Dot Design Award for REVITIVE Medic,[15] a 2014 Good Design Award for the Axis-D Injector Pen,[16] 2013 and 2012 Red Dot Design Awards for the Revitive IX[17] and Aerosure devices, and a Frost & Sullivan European Technology Innovation Award in the Wound Infection Diagnostic Industry for its Spatial Reach concept for chronic wound monitoring.[18]

Culture

In the 2013 Cambridgeshire Cycle Challenge, Team Consulting came in both 2nd and 3rd place for companies between 50-199 employees for encouraging the most people to cycle to work.[19]

Two years later, Team Consulting took part in the 2015 'Love to Ride' National Cycle Challenge, again achieving 2nd place for companies between 50-199 employees. The company managed an 86% staff participation rate and cycled over 3,500 miles during the three week challenge.[20]

References

  1. ↑ Davies, Lizzie. "Hi-tech cluster keeps business booming in Cambridge". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
  2. ↑ Connell, David; Probert, Jocelyn (January 2010). "Exploding the Myths of UK Innovation Policy" (PDF). Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
  3. ↑ Cooper, Neil. "Team Consulting expands to new premises". Team Consulting. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
  4. ↑ "East Mids advisers engineer Team Consulting buyout". Insider Media. 31 March 2014. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
  5. ↑ "World class deal designed and engineered in the East Midlands". Gateley. 31 March 2014. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
  6. ↑ Fry, A (1 July 2012). "Insulin delivery device technology 2012: where are we after 90 years?" (PDF). Journal of diabetes science and technology 6 (4): 947–53. PMID 22920823. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
  7. ↑ Andersson, Camilla. "Pharma Industry Needs to Focus on the Complete Patient Experience, Says Pharmapack Europe Speaker". European Medical Device Technology. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
  8. ↑ "Oh dear, what can the matter be? We don't want you to know". Cambridge News. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
  9. ↑ "Teaming with ideas for medical solutions". Cambridge News. 26 February 2013.
  10. ↑ "World first: device keeps human liver alive outside body". University of Oxford. 15 March 2013. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
  11. ↑ Walsh, Fergus (15 March 2013). "'Warmed liver' transplant first". BBC News. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
  12. ↑ Banks, Tom (27 March 2013). "Team Consulting helps develop world's first autonomous liver preservation system". Design Week. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
  13. ↑ Pitcher, Graham (10 December 2013). "BEEAs winner recognised by IET". New Electronics. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
  14. ↑ "Transplant solution is a real Team effort - BEEAs 2012 winners" (PDF). British Engineering Excellence Awards. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
  15. ↑ "Beefy puts his feet up". Cambridge News. Retrieved 6 April 2016.
  16. ↑ "Axis-D Injector Pen - Good Design Awards Winners 2014". The Chicago Athenaeum. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
  17. ↑ Dean, Matt (14 March 2012). "Medical device wins red dot award". Business Weekly. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
  18. ↑ "Europe; Technology Innovation Award - Wound Infection Diagnostic Industry". Frost & Sullivan. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
  19. ↑ "Cambridgeshire Cycle Challenge 2013". Cambridgeshire County Council. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
  20. ↑ "Company Results : National Cycle Challenge". Retrieved 14 July 2015.

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