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19 April 2023

4 minutes

Ensuring Quality and Rigour in Concurrent Design: 7 – How to Deal with Blaming and Shaming

7. How to deal with naming and shaming When issues are revealed in concurrent design sessions, it is inevitable that some blaming and sha...

23 March 2023

5 minutes

Ensuring Quality and Rigour in Concurrent Design: 6 – Challenging the Experts

6. Challenging the experts When you are the facilitator in concurrent design sessions you may know a lot less about the topic than the pa...

15 February 2023

4 minutes

Ensuring Quality and Rigour in Concurrent Design: 5 – Focus Without Losing a Holistic View

5. Focus without losing a holistic view Quality is created by focus; the more we zoom in, the more issues we find and can resolve. Howeve...

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24 January 2023

4 minutes

Contributing to Development of Europe’s Destination Earth Project

We are supporting ESA and EUMETSAT in the implementation of the European Commission’s (EC’s) flagship initiative Destination Earth

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19 January 2023

4 minutes

Ensuring Quality and Rigour in Concurrent Design: 4 – Quality In is Quality Out

4. Quality in is quality out When we support our stakeholders to present the information they bring to the table in a structured and comp...

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15 December 2022

4 minutes

Ensuring Quality and Rigour in Concurrent Design: 3 – Validation

3. Validation and doing the maths Validation is a standard practice in system engineering, but it is still mostly a planned and separate ...

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17 November 2022

4 minutes

Ensuring Quality and Rigour in Concurrent Design: 2 – Use 60 Eyes to Check and Double Check

2. Use 60 eyes to check and double check Peer reviewing is one of the most effective ways to validate the quality and rigour of results. ...

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20 October 2022

4 minutes

Updating Key Space Weather Impact Report

Our UK office has been awarded a contract by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) to prepare an updated report on the impact of space weathe...

19 October 2022

3 minutes

Ensuring Quality and Rigour in Concurrent Design: 1 – The Role of the Facilitator

1. The role of the facilitator Concurrent design requires a specific style of process facilitation. Traditionally, facilitation methods p...

22 September 2022

9 minutes

10 Success Factors for Concurrent Design

Overview: What is concurrent design? Concurrent design is based on a series of sessions where the client, experts from various domains an...

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20 September 2022

2 minutes

Leading international partnership with ESA on quantum key distribution (INT-UQKD)

Our Luxembourg team is leading a 3-year programme to develop and demonstrate international use cases for quantum key distribution (QKD) i...

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18 August 2022

7 minutes

James Webb Space Telescope – Sharing Data from the Ultimate Space-Time Machine

In this post, Mark McCaughrean from ESA discusses how data from the James Webb Space Telescope will be disseminated to scientists.

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17 August 2022

3 minutes

10 Success Factors for Collaborative Design: Part 10 – The Team as Super-Brain

10: The team as super-brain One vital contributory factor to the success of concurrent design is treating the team as a ‘super-brain’. To...

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20 July 2022

4 minutes

10 Success Factors for Collaborative Design: Part 9 – Taking an Iterative Approach

9: Taking an iterative approach You may have read that concurrent design takes an ‘iterative approach’. But what does that mean? We work ...

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15 June 2022

3 minutes

10 Success Factors for Collaborative Design: Part 8 – Efficiency

8: Efficiency One of the objectives of concurrent design is to speed up the process of the early phases of multidisciplinary projects, no...

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19 May 2022

4 minutes

10 Success Factors for Collaborative Design: Part 7 – Motivation and Flow

7: Motivation and Flow Working efficiently requires effort and hard work from everyone involved. This is particularly true of concurrent ...

19 May 2022

2 minutes

Providing State-of-the-Art Security Services for EUMETSAT

We have been awarded a 3-year contract by the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) for the ...

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5 May 2022

4 minutes

Supporting the Dutch MoD and ESA with Concurrent Design Solutions

The Dutch Ministry of Defence has opened a dedicated concurrent design facility with our support while ESA adopts CDP4-COMET

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Ensuring Quality and Rigour in Concurrent Design: 7 – How to Deal with Blaming and Shaming

Ensuring Quality and Rigour in Concurrent Design: 6 – Challenging the Experts

Ensuring Quality and Rigour in Concurrent Design: 5 – Focus Without Losing a Holistic View

Contributing to Development of Europe’s Destination Earth Project

Ensuring Quality and Rigour in Concurrent Design: 4 – Quality In is Quality Out

Ensuring Quality and Rigour in Concurrent Design: 3 – Validation

Ensuring Quality and Rigour in Concurrent Design: 2 – Use 60 Eyes to Check and Double Check

Updating Key Space Weather Impact Report

Ensuring Quality and Rigour in Concurrent Design: 1 – The Role of the Facilitator

10 Success Factors for Concurrent Design

Leading international partnership with ESA on quantum key distribution (INT-UQKD)

James Webb Space Telescope – Sharing Data from the Ultimate Space-Time Machine

10 Success Factors for Collaborative Design: Part 10 – The Team as Super-Brain

10 Success Factors for Collaborative Design: Part 9 – Taking an Iterative Approach

10 Success Factors for Collaborative Design: Part 8 – Efficiency

10 Success Factors for Collaborative Design: Part 7 – Motivation and Flow

Providing State-of-the-Art Security Services for EUMETSAT

Supporting the Dutch MoD and ESA with Concurrent Design Solutions