igg innovation capabilities preview (feb19)
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Former leaders of Fortune 100 companies; where we drove innovation...
Sprint PCS... Hi-tech for the mainstream
Kellogg... Food for adults and kids E&J Gallo Winery... Beverages
Highly successful entrepreneurs... ... have started and grown businesses
Inventors… ... hold design, product, and business process patents
We are an innovation machine for our clients… ... invented the formula and guaranteed it.
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Most innovation experts agree… … partnering with outside resources improves speed
and performance.
Outside innovation resources... Accelerate idea generation
Add incremental expertise
Enhance out-of-the-box thinking
Limit distractions from operations
Improve speed-to-market
Cost efficient... no added overhead
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Triple-Team of Experts™ - We are the only company that innovates & creates using the most skilled and diverse team of experts possible; custom selected for each client project.
60-Day Innovation Countdown™ - We are the only company that uses this proven process; and does so in partnership with your company from start to finish.
Innovation Furnace™ - Our Proprietary and powerful 48-hours of on-site inventing by the Triple Team of Experts™ that generates 12X more quality ideas than traditional brainstorming.
Money-Back Guarantee – A $100,000 money-back guarantee that the program will deliver the invention of a least one potentially high growth idea.
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Triple-Team of Experts™ - We are the only company that innovates & creates using the most skilled and diverse team of experts possible; custom selected for each client project, and working elbow-to-elbow in the Innovation Furnace™:
1. World-Class External Experts – recruited specifically for your project (e.g. distinguished physicians, researchers & academics; leading technologists; Pulitzer Prize winning journalists).
2. Your Best Internal Experts - marketing, operations, product development, R&D, consumer insights & more.
3. The Infinite Growth Group Innovation Experts – our innovation-certified team of former Fortune 100 leaders, highly successful entrepreneurs & inventors, and consumer research experts.
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60-Day Innovation Countdown™ - We are the only company that uses this proven process; and does so in partnership with your company from start to finish:
1. Discovery & Insights – builds on top of your company’s best work-to-date; consumer & market segmentation, strategy & business analysis, and concept testing.
2. Expert Selection & Preparation – internal & external experts are both carefully screened to maximize knowledge & expertise, plus group innovation skills (quantitatively assessed using Online PeopleSCAN™).
3. Innovation Furnace™ – the heart of the process, a proprietary & powerful 48-hours of on-site inventing by the Triple Team of Experts™ that generates 12X more quality ideas than traditional brainstorming.
4. Merwyn Business Simulation™ – For the Top-10 ideas, this best-in-class quantitative measurement of concept strength & sales forecast is integrated into the 60-days*.
*Over 20,000 product and service innovations have been tested using the patented and validated Merwyn Research tools for innovation development decision-making
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Innovation Furnace™ - Our Proprietary and powerful 48-hours of on-site inventing by the Triple Team of Experts™ that generates 12X more quality ideas than traditional brainstorming.
Fundamentals of Innovation – diversity of thought, no fear, right & left brain creativity, and stimulus. Triple Team of Experts™ -- the most skilled and diverse team of experts possible, power-grouped using Online PeopleSCAN™. Partner-Managed 48-Hour Process – project-specific innovation plan, dynamic flexibility, real-time metrics, run by experienced IGG Innovation Team. Guaranteed Deliverables – documentation of every idea, dozens of ideas developed in detail, Top-10 ideas developed into full research-concepts for quantitative testing in Merwyn Business Simulation™.
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The Business-School Experts Agree... External collaboration is essential... Partnering is a proven approach... Outsourced ideation can speed up the innovation
process
The CEO of P&G set the pace... “The Game-Changer” by A.J. Lafley (2008) “I set an ambitious and unprecedented goal; we will
partner 50% of our innovations from outsiders.”
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Global Personal Care Company -- Developed a vision, strategy, and multi-category new product portfolio to enter new demographic & product segments and drive $1 billion strategic growth initiative.
Major International Bank -- Developed a portfolio of new services designed to expand and protect market position as #1 customer service leader.
Global Food Company -- Developed a new product portfolio to strengthen category leadership & leverage technology improvements over 5-years.
International Telecom Company -- Developed a portfolio of new services optimized for the needs of the credit-challenged customer segment, and designed to monitor and control company financial risk.
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Scott Relf, Founding Partner Phone: 239-821-0676 [email protected]
Jackie Kempf, Client Development Phone: 603-673-4034 [email protected]
Brian Gardner, Client Development Phone: 203-596-9624 [email protected]
Visit: InfiniteGrowthGroup.com
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Scott Relf Senior Leader of Marketing & Product Development
at Sprint PCS (5yrs), Kellogg (4yrs) and the E&J Gallo Winery (7yrs)
Entrepreneur, co-founder of Zave Networks, winner of the Frost & Sullivan 2009 North American Mobile Advertising Innovation Award
Inventor, business process patent (electronic coupon banking system) and design patent (paper towel dispensing system)
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Fortune 100 Senior Leader – Strategy, marketing and communications executive with leadership roles at United Health Care, Sprint-Nextel, Bausch & Lomb and Pepsi.
Technology Executive & Entrepreneur – General manager and senior executive with leadership roles at Openwave, Sprint PCS, Symmetricom & Glenayre… plus entrepreneurial roles start-ups as both management and as founder.
Global Internet Executive – General manager and senior executive with leadership roles at Motorola, United Airlines, Kellogg & Canadian Tire… plus co-creator of online travel start-up.
Award-Winning Ad Agency Executive – General manager & creative director with credits in TV, print promotional development and packaging, plus awards for creative work on everything from household cleaners to lumber stores.
Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist – 30-Something newspaper and National Public Radio journalist, Fulbright Scholar, Princeton Professor, bi-lingual in Spanish and improvisational comedian.
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