KTP Associate: Andrew Grounds
University: Queen’s University Belfast
Company: Ashton Community Trust
The Challenge:
to build the commercial resilience of Ashton – a large social enterprise (250 staff; turnover of £7.5m) that trades in a range of goods and services, reinvesting its profits in community services in Belfast’s divided and disadvantaged inner city. To do this by diversifying into high value procurement markets, better evidencing return on investment, strengthening operational management and developing a technology business line to grow turnover.
The KTP Associate: Andrew’s quick analytical abilities, effective writing and ability to use data synthetically have transformed Ashton’s business model.
This KTP Associate is one of the finalists in the KTP Best of the Best Awards 2020: See below for a profile of each of the 18 finalists in the Future Innovator category of this year’s Awards.
Muddasar Anwar Delivering innovation for Sustainable Drainage System to prevent flooding.
Blessing Mbipom Creating online learning for GPs.
Laurence Foster: Innovations to “print” structures, transforming house building.
Declan Bryans: Creating greener energy with innovations in flow batteries.
Elle Perschke: Applying B2C methodologies to launch a new product within a B2B company.
Mark Gilmore: Development of new class of greener ionic liquid, with multiple potential applications.
Khai Nguyen: Inventing a new silicone composite for consumer fixing brand, Sugru.
Swapnil Khadke: Creating new liposome formulations for application in drug delivery
Leona McGirr: Creating an Antibody Library for fully human antibodies.
Dan Hicks: Developing a new design and testing process for electric trails bikes.
Dmitry Bogachov: Advancing Materials Science for Anilox technology.
Andrew Grounds: Transforming business models for Social Enterprise.
Lyndsey McKirdy: Enhancing data science capability at Aggreko.
Jack Tallant: Transforming reporting and delivery of Charity’s activities.
Xi Liu: Using AI to develop fraud detection and prevention services for law firm.
Alex Komninos: Transforming spreadsheets in to cognitive models at IBM
Harvey Kangley: Delivering exceptional NPD for rail electrification
George Harris: Developing advanced engineering for intruder detection systems.
The Future Innovator category of the KTP Awards is supported by Ashorne Hill – a specialist training company which runs training programmes for all KTP Associates.
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