Upcoming Events and Conferences

WinOvations will be presenting or speaking
at these upcoming events and conferences.

The Lean Six Sigma Summit
IQPC
January 19-22, 2009
Buena Vista Palace Hotel & Spa, Orlando, FL

http://leansixsigmasummit.com/

Workshop I: Changing The Organization’s DNA For Faster And More Profitable Innovation

Global competition is driving the need for faster and more profitable innovations. Yet success rates from New Business Development (NBD) have remained unchanged for 50 years. It’s clear that achieving different and better results requires doing things at an improved level.

In this interactive workshop, you’ll learn about some of the latest developments, improved tools and five new forward-looking metrics for accelerating NBD. These have enabled nine-fold improvements in speed and success rates for new products, services and business models.

Five steps to higher NBD profitability:

Step 1: “The DNA of your organization?is not just a metaphor

Learn how leading organizations are measuring the degree of natural creativity, and quickly and permanently raising it - with the only approach in the literature quantified to work. Like most great ideas, it is surprisingly easy and simple to do, once you understand how.

Step 2: Right people: Right job roles ?“starters?and “finishers?/b>

Learn why leading organizations believe the people working in the Front-End of NBD are as important as the process. Quickly measure and select the right kinds of people for the different stages of business development - “starters?for the front-end of NBD, and “finishers?for commercialization.

Step 3: Identifying winning opportunities to commercialize

You’ll learn and discuss how to capture your top management’s “Gut-Level- Screen^SM?to help ensure NBD projects will ultimately get the resources needed for commercial success, eliminating this common barrier to success.

Steps 4 & 5: Finishing the job

Learn how to get enough “Finishers?in the rank-and-file to commercialize projects in the marketplace, & make money faster!

Front End of Innovation
IIR-PDMA
May 18-20, 2009
Seaport Boston Hotel & Adjacent World Trade Center

http://www.iirusa.com/feiusa/fei-home.xml

WinOvations Short Course and Exhibition

FIVE STEPS TO DOUBLING THE PROFITABILITY FROM YOUR NBD GROUP
Even While Halving its Size, by Changing the Organization’s DNA
GREG A. STEVENS, PRESIDENT, WINOVATIONS, INC

Naturally creative people “Start?most proﬁ table New Business Development (NBD) concepts. More practical types are better at “Finishing?them. In this short course you will learn how to identify “Starters?for the Front-End of Innovation, and “Finishers?to commercialize their ideas - and make money faster. This involves analysis of customer interviews, and building comparative system cost-performance-models, showing exactly how their new morphed ideas can win. You’ll learn how to quickly measure the creativity of entire groups and raise their level of creativity when needed, via the only approach in the literature proven to work. You’ll also learn five new forward-looking NBD metrics that will help you predict future NBD success, and thereby increase your profitability.

You will learn how to quickly achieve more than twice the proﬁ t from your NBD group by:

Identifying inherently creative “Starters?or “Rainmakers?for the Front End of Innovation.
Training and coaching “Starters?to more routinely “Morph?initial ideas into commercial winners, typically with $50 million/year in proﬁ table sales potential per each person-year of effort in NBD.
Measuring and quickly increasing the creativity and effectiveness of an entire group.
Using ﬁve new forward-looking metrics to help manage, predict and increase your company’s future NBD success.