Lead Your Company's Growth and Performance Initiatives

What makes a successful innovation strategy? And why are companies like Coca-Cola, Citigroup and Humana investing in innovation?

These market leaders recognize the power inherent in developing new ideas, new products and new ways to satisfy customers. However, there are few organizations that understand what it really takes to develop a culture of innovation and to how to design a program that achieves measurable and sustainable results.

Deploying Structured Innovation is a powerful workshop for executives who are ready to move beyond innovation theory and begin developing a focused and practical innovation approach for future-proofing any business. This workshop will feature emerging strategies, tools and techniques from some of the foremost thinkers in innovation today.

Dates & Locations (2 days)
 •  September 28, 2009, Washington, D.C.

This course is available for pre-registration. To pre-register or to find out more information about this class, please click the pre-register button. A BMGI training expert and coach will contact you and answer any questions you may have.

Increase your organization's problem-solving abilities through systematic innovation.

You have problems. Old problems, new problems, and problems you haven't even thought of yet. In this ever-changing world, the problems you encounter may seem overwhelming, outpacing your organization's ability to develop solutions. So what do you do?

By participating in this one-day executive overview, you'll discover how organizations around the world are making innovation a core competency - leading to greater problem-solving ability and the development of superior processes and services - and how your organization can do the same.

Dates & Locations (2 days)
 •  October 5, 2009, Denver, CO

This course is available for pre-registration. To pre-register or to find out more information about this class, please click the pre-register button. A BMGI training expert and coach will contact you and answer any questions you may have.

Using Innovation skills to enhance problem-solving abilities

What if creativity could be taught? We think it can. Successful innovation isn't just about coming up with great ideas - it's also about selecting them, systematically implementing them, and finally evaluating their success. BMG University's Innovation Tools class teaches you a structured method for moving through the innovation process from front to finish. You will walk away with both an understanding of what it takes to build your team's innovative capabilities, as well as a number of specific tools you can use along the way to ensure success.

The Innovation Tools course follows the structured innovation methodology, D4, which includes the phases of Define, Discover, Develop and Demonstrate. The D4 roadmap helps practitioners identify unmet customer needs, generate ideas to fulfill those needs, analyze the most promising solutions, and pilot and test the end product/process. This 5 day course will show you:

• How to apply a structured roadmap for innovation to solve business problems with measurable success.
• How to identify unarticulated customer needs and get to the heart of the problem you seek to solve.
• How to take ideas and turn them into solutions, then demonstrate success with prototyping and piloting.

Dates & Locations (5 days)
 •  June 30, 2009, London, UK
 •  August 17, 2009, Washington, DC
 •  November 16, 2009, Washington, DC
 •  December, 7, 2009, Zürich, Switzerland

This course is available for pre-registration. To pre-register or to find out more information about this class, please click the pre-register button. A BMGI training expert and coach will contact you and answer any questions you may have.

Using the Theory of Innovative Problem Solving to solve complex innovation problems.

TRIZ is rapidly gaining popularity as a powerful methodology for enhancing innovation and creativity inside corporate environments. Research and development teams, product developers, manufacturers and service businesses alike are finding it to be a powerful tool for solving practical problems and building new technologies in their business.

The TRIZ methodology helps you to generate more solutions of a higher quality, many companies apply this methodology to:

• Generate new ideas and solve problems faster.
• Forecast technologies and track product evolution.
• Build stronger patents and work around existing ones.
• Maximize the potential for new product success.
• Streamline the use of resources.
• Improve understanding of customer requirements.
• Save time and money when developing new products.

This program offers an intensive introduction to the foundational elements of TRIZ and provides you with an understanding of how to use them effectively to solve problems in a manner that is repeatable, predictable, reliable and creative.

Dates & Locations (4 days)
 •  July 28, 2009, Denver, CO
 •  October 27, 2009, Denver, CO

This course is available for pre-registration. To pre-register or to find out more information about this class, please click the pre-register button. A BMGI training expert and coach will contact you and answer any questions you may have.

BMGI's Introduction to Innovation Tools course combines a high-level overview of why innovation is critical to long term success, plus a more in-depth explanation of several effective innovation tools. Students will learn about the Job To Be Done, Outcome Expectations, Provocation and Movement Techniques and Brainstorming Techniques. This course is interactive and dynamic, built for employees at all levels.

• Identify and understand the jobs your customers really want done
• Measure importance and satisfaction for Outcome Expectations
• Understand Provocation and Movement techniques
• Learn six key Brainstorming Techniques