JUMP START Enteprise Innoatio YOUR BRAIN With Innovation Engineering Black Belt Certification Get the Skills to Lead your Organization into a New Innovative Future This course and certification gives you expertise in 3 areas to lead innovation across an enterprise: Becoming an expert Becoming an expert at Becoming a persuasive innovator. innovation systems. strategic leader. What You’ll Learn In the course, you’ll learn the 36 skills that make up the Innovation Engineering “Body of Knowledge” – the complete academic peer-reviewed curriculum taught in Innovation Engineering undergraduate and graduate school programs across the world. In the Mastery Course, the instruction has been condensed for corporate education so that anyone can participate. Systems Thinking Collaboration and Rapid Research & Appreciation for a System Ideation Data-Driven Decision Roles this Course Prepares you For: Knowledge about Variation Collaboration Systems Making Function Psychology Professional Grade Rapid Research Operations Level Theory of Knowledge Brainstorming Sessions Oomph Strategy Manager Unrelated Mining Concept Feedback Systems Business Development Driving Strategic Patent Mining Director Innovation Alignment Insight Mining Forecasting General Manager Project Management Strategy Activation Market Mining Innovation ROI Vice President Wisdom Mining Sales Vertical Alignment Rapid Research Analytics President Future Mining Marketing Cost & Price Estimating Executive Innovation Pipeline PDSA Reducing Variation in R&D Building the and Development Forecasts Operations Innovation Mindset System Business Models About us. Diffusion of Innovation Departmental Alignment Mindset Innovation Decisions Personal Leadership Since 1986, Eureka! Ranch has helped over Optimizing the Whole Business Opportunity 10,000 teams from companies like Nike, Development Advanced Benefit & Proof Recommendation American Express, Disney, and countless Personal Leadership others innovate. We have the largest database of employee Estimating Value Organizing for Success Organizing for Success perceptions and behavior tracking as it relates to innovation “on the Meaningful Marketing Advanced Create Methods Real World front lines.” Best of all, we know what competencies and systems are Messages Proactive Selling Pitches Communications necessary for innovation through our pioneering efforts to build an entire new field of study, Innovation Engineering, that’s been vetted through academic peer review and torture-testing by some of the world’s most discriminating organizations. It’s a true mastery program. 5 college worth courses of content Contact us to learn more. with the guidance of an experienced IE Black Belt. David Lafkas :: [email protected] :: 1 (513) 633-0627 :: Tuition: $12,000 USD Innovation Engineering is a curriculum, a tool set, and a mindset that ENABLES Innovation by Everyone, Everywhere, Powered by Everyday, Resulting in Increased Speed to Market and Decreased Risk. Innovation Engineering systems are designed to ENABLE a culture where everyone works together on innovation. Innovation Engineering enables leaders to thrive in the new reality of faster product life cycles, increased competition, rapidly changing technology, and digital savvy customers. Since 2009 it’s taught an estimated The organizations involved It’s taught by over have over 35,000+ people 30 $19 Billion who work at small companies, global worth of innovations in corporations, non profits, universities, & universities / active development. governments from 22 countries. partners Why the name? field of study. You will learn in 5 days Innovation Engineering was chosen as the name WHAT IS INNOVATION the core content taught on university for this movement as it precisely defines our ENGINEERING? To win in purpose, mindset, and how we work. campuses during 6 undergraduate today’s marketplace a “reactive” courses or 3 graduate school Innovation is about ideas that are meaningfully mindset must be replaced with courses. unique. It’s about productive imagination. It’s leadership, and leadership by Importantly, 93% of the time you about change, ideas, improvement, and working definition is about proactively leading invest becoming an Innovation smarter. Creativity is the creation of the new and innovations in strategy, customer Engineering Black Belt is on real novel. Innovation is about unique ideas that offerings, and how we work together world projects for your organization. accomplish a meaningful purpose. The purpose to accomplish our organizational can be for igniting social change, changing how Front line coaching support, mission. we work with our co-workers, or simply making a advanced software tools, and a difference in people’s lives with a more effective Innovation Engineering is about global community for support, product or service. enabling people to take action on guarantee your success in applying ideas by providing them the the learning to your world. Engineering is about applying innovation to the education, tools, and leadership they real world. It’s about discipline, system reliability, need to turn their ideas into reality. documentation, experimentation, problem solving, and making decisions based on factual data. The The Innovation Engineering Mastery chemist studies the compositions, properties, and Course teaches you the 48 Skills that activity of organic and inorganic substances. The make up the Innovation Engineering Chemical Engineer applies the chemist’s discoveries in the real world of factories and products. What’s in it for YOU? The Mastery Course will enable you to and systems thinking as methods for Reasons why people pursue transform your innovation projects from problem solving existing challenges and Innovation Engineering random gambles to reliable investments. creating new ideas that proactively lead Black Belt Certification your organization, industry, and career. You will gain the courage, confidence, There are a number of reasons why and capability to take advantage of the As a graduate of the Mastery Course - an people participate. Below are just a tremendous opportunities created by the Innovation Engineering Black Belt - you’ll few that we hear: internet, globalization, and rapid change. be a member of a world wide community of change agents. It's a community • I was just put in charge of Studying Innovation Engineering teaches dedicated to helping one another enable innovation and I don’t know you key elements of the engineering their dreams. The Brain Brew Blog where to start. mindset: curiosity, discipline, and how to connects you in an instant to other think deeper. Innovation Engineering Blue Belts and • I’m on an accelerated leadership Black Belts. Regular Brain Brew track in my company. It teaches you how to use writing and Webinars keep you up to date on the math as a tools for thinking deeper about • I’m an innovator naturally. I love latest best practices. An annual global new ideas. learning about the cutting edge. conference brings the community It teaches you the power of stimulus together to share learning. • Innovation is a new key driver in mining, collaboration, experimentation, our business, and I need to understand how to do it. What’s in it for YOUR organization? • I’m tired of doing the same old stuff. I need a jolt. When an organization truly implements all research 20X Faster & at 90% lower • I’m a leader in my organization the facets of Innovation Engineering, a cost. and we need to change, but number how am I supposed to lead of clear signs of change emerge: • Development Success. You have improved your development success something I myself don’t have a • Your Offerings are More Meaningfully rate by up to 250%. handle on? Unique. And when they are • Innovation is on my Meaningfully Unique, customers are • ALL Your Employees are Innovating. performance criteria. willing to pay more for them. You are implementing up to 12 ideas per employee per year. • Innovation is a ton of FUN! • Your Innovation Pipeline Expands. Your organization has a pipeline of • Employees Have Their Name on a ideas for growing Net Profit Margin Patent. Patents and intellectual every year. property are part of the culture. With Ideas to Patents, a provisional patent • Speed Improves 6X. You take ideas application can be written by nearly to market up to 6X faster because anyone in about an hour. you're aligned and have systems that support speed. When the leadership enables the employees with strategic clarity, By applying in advance, you may • Risk Decreases 30 to 80%. Your education, and system support, a be able to receive 6 CEU innovations have a reduced risk of transformation of mindset is seen in the (continuing education units) from failure by 30 to 80% because you culture in just 6 months. identify and overcome risks BEFORE the University of Maine, the you invest. It’s not uncommon to see statistically founding academic significant increases among employees home of the • Research Drives Speed & Cost on optimism, courage, and pride of work. Reduction. You can do innovation And as a result, everyone wins. Innovation Engineering Institute. 1. Create Your Own HOW IT WORKS. Innovation Leadership There are two options for going through Innovation Engineering Portfolio Mastery. Enroll as an individual doing the work at your own pace or if you have a team of 4 or more you can enroll as a private Throughout the course you will be challenged break cohort. As a cohort, you will meet monthly working together and old paradigms and “get your hands dirty” applying learning