Breakthrough Management Group's Newest Innovation Offering — Trend Prediction & Business Model Forecasting; Use Systematic Innovation to Reduce Risk and Improve Success When Developing New Products and Services

Business Wire, May 1, 2006

LONGMONT, Colo. -- Breakthrough Management Group (BMG), a global leader in Performance Excellence and Six Sigma consulting, training and technology solutions, is pleased to announce its newest offering within its Innovation Suite -- Trend Prediction & Business Model Forecasting. Hosted by Darrell Mann, a leading expert in the development and exploitation of systematic innovation methods for both technical and business/social systems, the first workshop will be held July 11-13, 2006, in Denver.

Designed to teach attendees to investigate ways of focusing and managing innovation and innovative thinking in a manner that benefits customers and the organization, this workshop will provide attendees with a set of valuable tools and techniques that will help them and their organizations more effectively deliver innovative products -- across all business functions. Participants will also discover a systematic way to reduce risk, and increase their chances for success when innovating new products, services or processes within an organization.

Intended for company directors, managers and leaders, project managers, change agents and change management team members, strategy leaders, R&D engineers, scientists and technicians alike, attendees will learn how to bridge the gap between great ideas and bringing them to life. They will learn the tools for predicting breakthrough technological innovations in a systematic manner, and predicting breakthrough business and business concept innovations. They will utilize systematic tools to facilitate the construction of future-proof strategic maps for an organization, technology or discipline, and will be able to convey their knowledge about how to reduce innovation development time, cost and risk.

According to Phil Samuel, vice president of innovation at BMG, "Innovation is not just originality, but original solutions to problems. Innovation should answer the question, 'In what way can I best solve this issue?' This workshop will help attendees learn how to define the issues in certain terms, but answer the questions as completely as possible, and provide the tools to help an organization to focus on the critical elements of a solution and constrain the solutions to fit the problem."

For more information on Trend Prediction & Business Model Forecasting or BMG's Innovation Suite, visit www.bmgi.com.

About Breakthrough Management Group

BMG is the world's leading provider of training and consulting for performance excellence. Specializing in Lean, Six Sigma and Innovation, BMG works with leading companies around the globe to help "in-source" new capability and develop new core competencies. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Longmont, Colo., BMG has developed a loyal clientele that today exceeds 200 active businesses in industries as diverse as biotechnology, health care, finance, telecommunications, manufacturing and energy. BMG has offices in 12 countries and has more than 100 employees worldwide. For more information, visit www.bmgi.com.