Innovation Success Stories

Innovation isn’t just for Packaged Goods

(Rock Springs, Wyoming)  It is often said that a system for innovation works well for packaged goods, but how would it benefit me and my business.  Denise and Lee Staley own five Taco Time franchises in Wyoming.  Most people would assume in the franchise world it would be hard to innovate with all of the [...]

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Lafayette Brings in Innovation Expert for Successful 3-Day Innovation Training

LAFAYETTE, LA “America’s #1 Idea Guru” was recently in Lafayette to help Louisiana organizations change the way they do business. Doug Hall is the founder and CEO of Eureka! Ranch, a Cincinnati-based company that has worked with corporations such as Nike, Walt Disney and Procter & Gamble. He successfully led over 100 attendees through his [...]

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Entrepreneur Learns how to Commercialize his Offering

(CHEYENNE, WY) Jeremy Page is a CPA and a business manager at the University of Wyoming who also, prides himself on being an artist and sculptor. He used his artistic talents to develop a cutting edge way of looking at financial statements. In 1993, he discovered how much easier financial statements are to use when [...]

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Country Home Products Accelerates Innovation

(RANDOLPH CENTER, VT) Country Home Products, based in Vergennes, Vt. produces the DR and Neuton lines of outdoor power equipment as well as Sunward solar hot water systems. Founded in 1985, the company employs approximately 230 people. In addition to its headquarters and factory outlet store in Vergennes, Country Home Products has a product assembly [...]

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CEO Leads Company in Innovation

(CINCINNATI, OH)  Dimensional Innovations in Overland Park, Kansas wasn’t a stranger to innovation 2 years ago when they first learned about Innovation Engineering, but they definitely didn’t have a system for doing Innovation. Jim Baker, CEO of Dimensional Innovations says “I am an evangelist for the Innovation Engineering Management System.”  If you ask him why [...]

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Windcreek projects 25 Million dollars in Revenue over 10 Years after Attending IELI

(CINCINNATI, OH)  Windcreek Services was established in 1978 in Moorcroft, Wyoming.  They began as a well drilling company developing shallow oil wells and domestic water wells.  Over the years they diversified into oilfield service work, methane gas field construction, pumping unit fabrication, electrical fabrication and underground utility work.  Recently, Windcreek had been seeing a decline [...]

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Precision Analysis finds Success with a Structured Discipline for Growth

As a start-up, Precision Analysis was experiencing good sales but wanted a structured discipline for achieving more deliberate growth.  With Eureka! Jump Start as one of their growth tools, they not only gained a new system for growing, but they also doubled their sales in 5 months. Precision Analysis is a 4-year-old chemical analysis company [...]

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New Company Emerges from Workshop Networking

(Randolph Center, VT) It pays to be in the right place at the right time. For Larry Sharon, a plant manager at The Melanson Company, a metal fabrication plant in Rutland, and Bram Kleppner of Danforth Pewter, being at one of the Vermont Manufacturing Extension Center’s (VMEC) innovation & growth workshops in May 2009, led [...]

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Vermont Companies Continue the Innovation Push

Doug Hall, serial entrepreneur, author, and Founder/CEO of Eureka! Ranch International – a 25+ year-old research consultancy for such premier companies as Proctor and Gamble, Disney, Nike, Hewlett Packard, and American Express – returned to Vermont this past February 2011 to motivate, equip with tools, and teach business leaders a systematic approach to leading profitable [...]

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Taking Innovation to Vermont: Innovation Engineering Leadership Institute

Whoosh. Paper airplanes fly overhead in all directions, landing on tables, laps and on the floor of the Sheraton Hotel’s Conference Center. A man, short in stature, but big in personality stands at the front of the room, clad today not in one of the typical Hawaiian shirts he favors, but rather a more sedate [...]

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