Innovation Tools- From BMG Training Class

BMG's Innovation Tools for Black Belts class is specifically designed for Six Sigma and Lean practitioners 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 for Black Belts teaches students a complete four-step roadmap that takes them from problem identification to ideation to implementation.

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