Sagentia cleans up at MCA Awards

Sagentia has won the Technology, the Innovation and the coveted overall Best Private Sector Project Awards at the prestigious Management Consulting Awards for its work on M-PESA in Kenya.

The breakthrough mobile payment solution was launched last year for remittances in Kenya and was developed by Sagentia for Vodafone. It provides cost effective access to financial services for people without bank accounts in economies where it is unsafe, difficult and expensive to hold cash and move money around.

The Gen Spring 2008

As well as our latest news, this edition offers an insight into using technology scouting as part of open innovation. Technology scouting is a search and intermediation process which enables you to very efficiently find new technologies, often helping uncover those which may not otherwise be identified. Also, read about the wellness market in the US, predicted to be worth $1tr in the next few product development generations, the opportunities arising from the emergence of the Chinese middle class and our predictive design service.