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Innovation RainMakers^TM

Make money through our Innovation RainMakers^TM Affiliate Program

"You cannot solve a problem with the same mind or system that created it."

Albert Einstein

AIA will guide your transition

into and through the

AGE of INNOVATION.

Introduction to AIA's Technology Services/Offerings

AIA's founder has a 30-year record of success in delivering and facilitating innovation for companies large and small.

We know how to select the right mix of methods, tools, and techniques to attack your problem. We combine our expertise in delivering innovation with your in-house expertise, and facilitate a process that accelerates innovation, optimization, change, and implementation.

Competitive Opportunity Management^TM: assessment, mapping, management, monitoring.

Methods Enhancement: Analysis and improvement of any best practice to overcome or prevent stagnation and failure to deliver benefit; development of next generation best practices.

Structured Innovation: technological problem resolution (science & engineering), business process innovation, product & process development support, value analysis/value engineering

Process Optimization / Analytical Services: math model optimization (complex, non-linear), logistics model optimization (complex, non-linear), invention-based failure analysis / elimination, failure analysis for assemblies, risk assessment / reduction, failure prediction / prevention, design of experiments using Taguchi methods

Structured Innovation Support: inventive problem solving processes, patent infringement / circumvention support, evolutionary development of business & technological systems, diffusion of innovation into organization and/or marketplace

Organizational Support: individual, team & leader assessments, change management, strategic planning, executive & management coaching, cultural & organizational transitions

Competitive Opportunity Management^TM

"Business leadership is often a function of adding structure where no structure exists."

Dana W. Clarke, Sr.

The "Fuzzy Front-End" of product or process development is a systemic plague across many domains that costs organizations billions of dollars. Its definition as fuzzy (vague, unclear or blurry) tells the story of how most organizations start the development process.

Competitive Opportunity Management^TM provides AIA’s clients with the ability to leverage management skills with the new knowledge of market dynamics and how competition emerges in order to improve their company’s position in the market and value chain – sustainable and/or disruptive.

This new capability is based on the development of explicit knowledge of strategic opportunities that will occur in a given market. Competitive Opportunity Management^TM serves as a “Rock-Solid” Front-End Innovation Process by replacing the “Fuzzy Front-End" of Product and Process Development; a process that integrates with existing strategic planning, competitive intelligence, marketing, R&D and engineering processes.

Innovation Roadmaps matching new product and service offerings with these changes in demand results in higher acceptance of innovations by consumers; hence, these changes in consumer demand represent new strategic opportunities.

The knowledge is delivered as a set of detailed functional descriptions (conceptual models) that represent the sequential changes in consumer demand. Organized in the form of easy-to-comprehend “maps” that depict sequential changes, this knowledge comprises the next complete market paradigm shift.

Maps represent a comprehensive set of strategic (breakthrough) opportunities that will arise in the given market or market niche.

Competitive Opportunity Management^TM is a comprehensive process that consists of over 100 steps structured in a Phase Gate format for step-by-step integration and implementation.

To learn more contact:

Dana W. Clarke, Sr. at (248) 682-3368