Thomas Hordern
Innovation Consultant
- Location
- Gothenburg, Sweden
- Industry
- Management Consulting
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Thomas Hordern's Overview
- Current
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- Innovation Consultant at Europe
- Past
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- Innovation Consultant at Fahrenheit 212
- Researcher at Centre for Business Innovation
- PhD Candidate at Chalmers University of Technology
- Design & Innovation Consulting at Freelance
- Design in Innovation Project at Business & Design Lab
- Industrial Designer at Treloar Group Pty.
- Coordinator at Australian International Design Awards, Standards Australia
- Outdoor Instructor at Lakeside National Centre
- Education
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- Chalmers tekniska högskola
- Chalmers tekniska högskola
- University of Newcastle
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University of Newcastle
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Politecnico di Milano
- Connections
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338 connections
Thomas Hordern's Summary
Thomas's vocation is at the intersection of innovation, design and strategic management. He has designed ideas and offerings that have successfully created top-line growth for his clients and consulted on the early phase processes for innovation within organisations.
Thomas is passionate about finding and designing breakthrough opportunities. A passion and capability that has allowed him to lead projects for Fortune 500’s, holding/investment firms and small enterprises across multiple industries and markets in the USA, Europe, Australia and Asia.
Starting out as an industrial designer (Honors 1; Deans Merit) Thomas’s work and interests drew him into the field of innovation and strategic management. A discourse further fuelled through the achievement of a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering, Economics of Innovation & Management and the current completion of a Doctorate in Innovation Management.
Specialties
Innovation Strategy & Process, Problem Finding, Breakthrough & Disruptive Innovation,
Consumer Insight, User Research, Idea Development, Product Design & Development, Opportunity Definition, Workshop Design and Facilitation, Business Model Innovation
Thomas Hordern's Experience
Innovation Consultant
Fahrenheit 212
Partnership; 11-50 employees; Management Consulting industry
August 2010 – August 2011 (1 year 1 month) Greater New York City Area
Fahrenheit 212 is an innovation consultancy engaged to catalyse top-line growth. Clients include: Best Buy, Catterton Partners, Charles Schwab, Citibank, Lowe's, Proctor and Gamble, and Samsung.
As an Innovation Consultant of Idea Development at Fahrenheit 212, Thomas co-led innovation/growth projects with his Commercial Strategy counterpart. Leading Fahrenheit 212’s clients from conception to commercialisation of ideas (businesses) that were ‘big, fast and do-able.’ Thomas was responsible for producing a portfolio of successful offerings that were equally: a great idea, a great product and a great business.
Researcher
Centre for Business Innovation
April 2008 – August 2010 (2 years 5 months) Sweden
The Centre for Business Innovation (CBI) is a research centre with a focus on strategic management for business innovation. CBI represents an arena that produces ‘actionable knowledge’ through collaboration with agencies the academy and industry actors.
The Center enables innovation within established large firms and in addition collaborates with smaller entrepreneurial firms to accelerate their growth. Partners have included: Volvo, Ericsson, SCA, Tetra Pak, Axis Communications, Oxeon, Icomera and Goteborg Energy.
PhD Candidate
Chalmers University of Technology
Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry
March 2008 – 2010 (2 years) Sweden
Managing concept development for innovation. Collaborative research of breakthrough innovation for business growth within the themes/fields of design & innovation, the front- end/early phases of innovation, problem finding, strategic management and the management of environmental innovation.
Design & Innovation Consulting
Freelance
January 2005 – August 2010 (5 years 8 months) Australia, Europe
Industrial design from concept to production for a range of goods from sailing, medical and industrial equipment to consumer goods. Innovation consulting and lectures to design organisations and large firms.
Client's across Australia, Asia and Europe.
Design in Innovation Project
Business & Design Lab
June 2007 – March 2008 (10 months) Sweden
Launched and lead a research project to investigate the role of design firms in innovation and how they contributed to a core firms capabilities for innovation. A selection of the collaborating firms included: IDEO, frog, Seymor Powell, Continuum, New Deal Design, Propeller, Philips, Electrolux, P&G, Braun, Sony Ericsson.
Industrial Designer
Treloar Group Pty.
November 2005 – April 2007 (1 year 6 months) New South Wales, Australia
The Trealor Group is a leading design, engineering and manufacturing firm offering speciality fluid handling products and services to the chemical, petroleum and process industries.
Joined Treloar through a joint venture in order to develop a concept I had designed and pitched to the firm. As a result, became a member of the engineering team to provide the function/capability of industrial design, that included responsibilities for R&D, concept design, detail design/CAD for manufacturing, prototyping and commercialisation material. Played a key role in the full launch from concept to commercialisation for the Series 7 tank truck range, and special projects.
Thomas Hordern's Education
Chalmers tekniska högskola
PhD Candidate, Innovation Management
2008 – 2010
Chalmers tekniska högskola
MSc., Economics of Innovation & Management
2007 – 2008
University of Newcastle
Bachelor, Business
2006 – 2006
University of Newcastle
Bachelor, Industrial Design (Hons 1)
2002 – 2005
Politecnico di Milano
Advanced Design Management Course, MBA
2004 – 2004
Thomas Hordern's Additional Information
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- Honors and Awards:
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1st Class Honors & Deans Merit, Bachelor of Industrial Design,
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