innovation Archives - Bristol Water

Thoughts on why innovation is important to all of us

By Chris Thomas | October 31, 2018

What do swarms, memes, genes and waves have in common?… Look at this picture. What do you see? Imagery ©2018 Google, Map data ©2018 Google This isn’t a bizarre test of your psyche and you probably won’t know the answer unless you’ve worked in the water industry. This is a picture that has fascinated me…Read More

The Future isn’t real…

By Rob Ellis | October 26, 2018

…thoughts on an information based future. It’s the weekend, it’s blowing a gail, the temperature hasn’t been in double digits for a few weeks now and it’s definitely going to rain later. Time to hit the beach! Why would I do this? Because I’m obsessed with collecting better data. What?! Let me explain… For Christmas…Read More

Failing fast is for failures… …let’s learn instead

By Chris Thomas | October 26, 2018

The Russians are good at thinking outside of the box. In the 1940s the Russian army trained an elite force of dogs to run under enemy tanks carrying explosives to target the weak underside of those tanks. However, when deployed in the field the dogs ran towards the familiar noise of the Russian’s diesel engine…Read More

Bristol Water is the first water company to be awarded Lean Competency System Accreditation

By Rob Ellis | October 11, 2018

We can use a search engine to find many things. The world’s first car, the first computer, even the first head transplant recipient. However, until recently there is one thing that wouldn’t have been in that list – the world’s first LCS accredited Water Company! Niche? Perhaps. Innovative and forward thinking? Definitely. Lean thinking has…Read More

Meaningful work

By Rob Ellis | August 24, 2018

Image of a man refilling his bottle at the bristol water bar

I was listening to Adam Buxton interviewing Diane Morgan, not your usual place for work advice, and I don’t think they were planning on helping someone working in the utilities sector, but they did. When asked about how she writes, she’s a comedian and an actress in case you didn’t know, she responded with “I…Read More

The Hell-o-cheese-copter

By Chris Thomas | August 24, 2018

This is a blog about innovation in the water industry. This blog can relate to any industry in the world but I care about water. A multi-million pound industry, a public service, a regulated industry. So I start it with a quote from a book by Andrea Beaty; “Strapped into the cockpit, she flipped on…Read More

Thou shall taketh away

By Chris Thomas | August 24, 2018

When people talk about innovation, they often talk of what’s new: what’s the new tech, the new gadget. And that it most certainly is; but when you look up what innovations means – not a great thing to be in your search history if you’re the ‘head of business improvement and innovation’ – it says…Read More

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