The Innovation Engineering Leadership Institute (IELI) uses advanced education programs and digital tools that build confidence in your ability to lead the creation, communication and commercialization of meaningfully unique ideas.  Graduates of the program are experiencing increased speed and decreased risk in their innovation systems.  The program is developed, continuously refined and delivered through an alliance between the Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) network, Eureka! Ranch and Merwyn Research.

Attending the Innovation Engineering Leadership Institute gives you the basics of how to implement a proven innovation system over a three-day period.  Implementation provides organizations and companies with:

• A System that Increases Innovation Speed & Decreases Risk - This is accomplished through teaching and installing a reliable system for how organizations create, communicate and commercialize meaningfully unique ideas.
  

• A Quantified Pipeline of Innovations - Organizations develop a quantified pipeline of innovations starting with the acceleration of existing ideas and moving to the definition and discovery of new ideas that address very important problems and opportunities.

• Transform Cultural Attitudes about Innovation - Participating organizations see a transformation of employees’ cultural attitudes, acceptance and proactive involvement with innovation.  Every employee, every week, is thinking of ideas to help the company work smarter towards real profitable growth.

Innovation is no longer optional.

WHY INNOVATION?
In today’s world, “If you’re not Meaningfully Unique you better be cheaper.”  And  Meaningful Uniqueness is far more profitable.  Two separate Georgia Tech studies (2008 & 2010) found that companies who focus on innovation make more than twice as much money as those focused on low cost. And, employees are paid 60% more as well! 

WHY NOW?
In the past Innovation was slow and risky.  Today, there is a system that increases innovation speed while decreasing risk.  It’s called the Innovation Engineering Management System.  It’s a new way of thinking based on a set of tools and principles developed and refined through 25 years of real world experimentation.

WHY YOU?
The world is changing and you need to be changing faster than the marketplace if you want to stay ahead.  For America to have real hope for meaningful growth - we need leaders who are willing and able to lead innovation.

 

About Innovation Engineering Leadership Institute Events

Attending the Innovation Engineering Leadership Institute gives you the basics of how to implement a proven innovation system over a three-day period. During the day at IELI, you will learn the concepts and tools of the Innovation Engineering System. In the evenings of the first two days, you and your team will apply lessons learned to your own organization with the help of Innovation Engineering coaches. At the end of the three days, your team will have a whole new set of ideas and plans for implementation on your first day back to work.

“Over the years we’ve had many great ideas, yet little results.  IELI gave us real tools and the courage to bring these new ideas to fruition in a very practical manner.”
Max Wilen, Windcreek Services & Eletrofab

“I would recommend IELI to anyone who is looking to jump start creative ideas and learn the proper tools to turn those into reality.”
C.J. Rigdon, DO, Inc.

 

Upcoming Events

 

June 4-6      
Charlotte, North Carolina (Register)

September 10 – 12 (Register)       
Rochester, New York

September 24 – 26         
Maine

October 15 - 17 (Register)               
Blaine, Washington 

December 3 – 5               
California

For More Information

To learn more about Innovation Engineering, contact your local MEP center.

 

NIST MEP Contact
Mike Simpson
msimpson@nist.gov
(301) 975-6147

Kari Reidy
kari.reidy@nist.gov
(301) 975-4919