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Profitable Growth and Innovation Services

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The Problem:  Innovation can be Slow and Risky

The Solution: A SYSTEM…..That Increases Innovation Speed (10x) and Decreases Risk (30 to 80%) with tools to help your team think smarter & more creatively. 

Innovation is no longer an optional business strategy, it’s a necessity.  

In today’s world, “If you’re not Meaningfully Unique you better be cheaper”.  

And Meaningful Uniqueness is far more profitable.

 When your services and products are Meaningfully Unique:

-         Employees are proud and motivated

-         Management  is optimistic and

-         Everyone makes more money and has more opportunities

 

confrealgraph Why INNOVATION?

Meaningfully unique products and services make more money.  Period.  If you want to get out of commodity market prison and sell on value, then you need to innovate and offer more meaningfully unique services and products to your customers.  A Georgia Tech Study found that businesses with a primary strategy of innovation have double the profit margin of those with a primary strategy of low cost. 


Why NOW?

If America does not innovate, our children will not realize the American Dream.  American workers, managers and business owners need to transform from a culture that fears failure to a proactive culture focused on growth.  We need to learn again how to transform every company into a growth company that makes money because the services and products offered are worth more to customers. 

In the past Innovation was slow and risky.  Today, there is a system that increases innovation speed while decreasing risk.  The Innovation Engineering Management System is a proven system of tools developed through scientific inquiry – grounded in hard data and proven reliable in real world application.  Over the past 25 years, this system and the tools that make up the system were only available to the big companies – Nike, Hewlett Packard, Walt Disney, Procter & Gamble, Slumberger and Ford Motor Company.   Now, thanks to the US Department of Commerce’s NIST/MEP Network, it’s available to all companies.

 

Why YOU?

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The world is changing and you need to be changing faster than the marketplace to stay ahead of the market.  As the Leader, it’s your responsibility to install and implement systemic solutions. Thus, if you don’t have a reliable SYSTEM for growth you owe it to yourself and to your employees to learn about Innovation Engineering.

The Innovation Engineering Management System will bring you and your enterprise the following results:

              1)  A SYSTEM that increases Innovation Speed and Decreases Risk.  This is accomplished through teaching and installing a proven and reliable system for how your organization creates, communicates and commercializes ideas.  The system focus builds confidence.  Research shows that confidence in your innovation system is the #1 driver of company profitability.

               2)  A Quantified Pipeline of Innovations.  You will develop a quantified pipeline of innovations starting with the acceleration of existing ideas and moving to the definition and discovery of new ideas that address your Very Important Problems and Very Important Opportunities.

              3)  Transform Cultural Attitudes Towards Innovation.  You will transform your employees cultural attitudes, acceptance and proactive involvement with innovation.  The System is goof proof and has tools and systems that enable every employee to think smarter and more creatively about Innovation

              4)   A Smart system - Grounded in Data - that is Continuously Improving


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Return on Investment from the

Innovation Engineering Management System

Individual results vary, however other companies have realized…

·  72% increase in your team’s confidence to lead Innovation (Ref. 1 below)

·  A 7 X increase in all employees ability to think smarter &  more creatively (Ref. 2 below)

·  Significant growth in employee innovation confidence, optimism & proactive action in 100 days (Ref. 3 below)

·  Ideas to first sale in 10% of the time, at 16% of the cost & with double the odds of success (Ref. 4 below)

 1)Self-reported surveys from participants 2) In quantity and quality trials versus traditional brainstorming 3) Assessment benchmark study results 100 days after full management system    implementation 4) Independent P&G Finance Study and MEP Concept Test Forecasts from the System

 

For more proof about the effectiveness of the Innovation Engineering System, watch this IE Proof Video and visit www.InnovationEngineering Proof.com.

The Innovation Engineering Leadership Institute (IELI) is the primary educational component of the Innovation Engineering Management System. Attending the IELI gives leaders the basics of how to implement the system. To accelerate success, an Innovation Engineering Black Belt can provide: 1) Additional hands-on training, 2) Acceleration of existing and new ideas and 3) Coaching to help your leadership with implementation.   For more information about the IELI, visit: www.InnovationEngineering.info.

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