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Medical technology consultancy services

With a high customer satisfaction rate and significant repeat business from existing clients, we can be relied on to deliver against your desired outcomes. CTOs, R&D leaders, and investors trust us with their most business-critical medical technology developments, partnering to maximise value creation from technology investments and defining winning R&D strategies. This typically includes the rapid development of cutting-edge proof-of-concept or demonstrator systems, extending through to regulatory, intellectual property or commercial strategy support, and transfer to manufacture.

Design and invention

Transforming ideas into market-leading innovations

Our teams integrate a broad range of science, design, and engineering disciplines. Our user-led, science-based innovation consultancy services identify and develop solutions that have the potential to deliver sustained market success and better patient outcomes.

Project activities are tailored to your requirements and can include:

Human insight

Comprehensive research, observations, and analysis are conducted to provide insights that inform invention. This includes understanding of the user needs, cognition and human physiology.

Modelling and simulation

Powerful modelling and simulation tools are used to characterise the real-world performance of novel technologies. Combined with rapid lab-based testing, design rules are established to ensure the optimal performance in subsequent system engineering.

Concept generation

Sagentia Medical excels in creating not only Minimum Viable but Minimum Lovable Products, whether they are physical products, digital innovations, or services. These concepts are robust and aligned with market demands, through all points of the care continuum.

Case studies
Varian, a Siemens Healthineers company: ProBeam® 360° Proton Therapy System Sagentia Innovation: sPEEK™ – Voice controlled surgical loupes Mammoth Biosciences SEEKR instrument & cartridge Ablatus: First principles modelling of novel Radiofrequency Ablation technology
Capabilities
  • Fast track concepts
  • Design rules for technology and systems
  • Mock ups for user testing/regulatory consideration
  • New technology applications
  • Root cause for problem areas
  • Validated concept designs

Product development

Accelerating product success from concept to launch with rapid development

Innovative new products and services are created that align patient and Health Care Professional (HCP) needs with commercial opportunities and technical feasibility. Our rapid, ISO13485 approved product development processes deliver safe and effective market entry.

Project activities are tailored to your requirements and can include:

Proof-of-Concept systems

Design, build, and test of Proof-of-Concept systems to validate ideas and demonstrate their potential to different stakeholders. This ensures that concepts are viable and ready for further development.

Rapid development to launch

Combined product development and human factors teams take systems from initial concept through to approval, production, and launch. We are focused on safety, efficiency and effectiveness to bring your products to market swiftly.

Product optimisation

Maximise ROI and minimise costs for both acquired and legacy products and systems. Our sustaining engineering and optimisation efforts ensure that your products are performing at their best and exceeding market demands.

Case studies
Intelligent Fingerprinting:DSR-Plus reader Development of the TMINI™ Miniature Robotic System LIV® IQ product development with Linde Laerdal: CPRmeter 2
Capabilities
  • New technology system development and verification
  • Formative and Summative usability engineering
  • IP Generation
  • ISO13485 product development management
  • Pilot batch manufacture up to Class IIb
  • On market product performance/cost optimisation

Insights and strategy

Leveraging science and technology to help you build your strategy

Our teams bring a strategic lens to help resolve your most critical innovation challenges. With a unique combination of strategic advisory, deep science and technology expertise.

Project activities are tailored to your requirements and can include:

Future insights

Changes to a combination of technology, regulatory, competitive, and user trends will all impact your future business. These factors are analysed to define the right spaces for you to play, mitigating uncertainty and maximising opportunity.

Strategy

With an articulation of the right space to play, clients are assisted in defining technology pathways, business strategies and execution models. Playbooks, roadmaps and value propositions are developed to deliver competitive advantage and a right to win in those markets.

Organisational improvement

Your organisation and processes are evaluated across the entire innovation journey, with recommendations made to improve efficiency and enhance performance. This work extends to optimisation of manufacturing processes, quality assurance, regulatory affairs, the application of analytic and generative AI in R&D.

 

Case studies
Can we successfully enter and win in the over-the-counter consumer diagnostics market? What are the key drivers of change in the international teledenistry market? Digital Health Landscape A roadmap for regenerative healthcare in personal care
Capabilities
  • Market analysis and opportunity
  • Product and technology roadmaps
  • Value propositions and playbooks
  • Partner evaluation and execution models
  • Digitalisation/AI in R&D
  • Innovation process improvement
  • R&D, Regulatory affairs and QA organisation
  • Product and process cost optimisation

Sustainability

Leveraging science, commercial and regulatory expertise to enable you to deliver on sustainability and growth

Our distinctive blend of expertise in sustainability, regulation, science and commercial understanding helps companies realise opportunity and manage risks from sustainability.

Our services enable you to achieve sustainability ambitions through strategy, organisational practice, and sustainable innovation:

  • Strategy: Integrate sustainability goals into business practice, delivering on both commercial and stewardship promises, and driving transformational change
  • Organisation & process: Enhance sustainability capabilities by leveraging best practices to reframe business processes
  • Innovation: Develop sustainable products and processes that deliver on sustainability whilst also delivering on customer needs, market value and competitive advantage

Understanding the complexity across different sustainability imperatives – carbon reduction, nature impact, circularity and resource efficiency and crucially the interplay between these to help companies successfully navigate necessary trade-offs and deploy winning solutions.

We collaborate closely with leadership and project teams across R&D, operations, commercial and product stewardship functions. Delivering projects in partnership with Sagentia Regulatory.

Case studies
Evolving product offerings that address the drive towards sustainability Could a novel packaging technology developed for a specific application be commercialised more widely? Developing global sustainable packaging strategies Ensuring a sustainability policy matches best practice
Capabilities
  • Foresight and scenario planning
  • Managing risk and opportunity
  • Impact of regulations and advocacy
  • Technology options and trade offs
  • Business models and value propositions
  • Benchmarking
  • Systems change
  • Decarbonisation roadmaps
  • Sustainable product design and formulation
  • Cross-industry thought leadership

Careers

Join our dynamic consultancy business to work in an exciting science and technology environment with leading global organisations.

Expert insights

Explore our case studies to find out about our exciting work across Medical and read our latest insights and white papers authored by our industry experts.

Locations

Sagentia is headquartered in the Cambridge, UK and has numerous offices throughout UK, Europe and North America.