BMG University’s Innovation Tools class is specifically designed for those who want to expand their skills beyond process improvement into process and product creation. Unlike “creativity” courses that focus only on idea generation and “design” courses that focus only on refining existing ideas, Innovation Tools teaches a complete four-step roadmap that takes you from problem identification to ideation to implementation.

The Innovation Tools course follows a structured innovation methodology, D4, which includes the phases of Define, Discover, Develop and Demonstrate. The D4 roadmap helps you identify unmet customer needs, generate ideas to fulfill those needs, analyze the most promising solutions, and test the end product/process. The result is a solid, repeatable and predictable process for innovating new products, processes and business models.

Innovation Tools teaches proven techniques that can be incorporated into Lean Six Sigma or other improvement methodologies, or used solely in an innovation context. Techniques include: