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Top Line Growth Eureka! Winning Ways New Sales New Customers & Markets New Products & Services Process Improvement Lean Quality Environmental Supply Chain Management Supply Chain Management Benefits of Working with MEP Business Operations Workforce Systems & Management Local Events Find Your MEP Center Contact Us MEP Homepage	Manufacturers Top Line Growth Eureka! Winning Ways Eureka! Winning Ways Process \| Hear from Clients \| Doug Hall and Eureka!Ranch Find Your Local Growth Coach \| Learn More/Local Events Eureka! Winning Ways Process Your Eureka! Growth Coach will guide your team through a simple three-step process: One-Day Eureka! Idea Engineering: A disciplined data-driven process to develop and craft at least 50 measurably smarter growth ideas for new markets, new marketing messages, and new products or services for your company. Research shows that companies with more choices achieve growth almost 6 times faster. Success Screenings: Your team chooses four ideas for evaluation by Eureka! patented Merwyn Research system, which scientifically measures their probability of success. Action Planning and Coaching: With your Growth Coach, the team develops a 30-day action plan to investigate and test your top two ideas. This process utilizes disposable prototypes and rapid feedback—“fail fast, fail cheap”—and has been saved companies 80-90% of the staffing, time, and money traditionally required to move ideas into deployment. Throughout the process, your Growth Coach will monitor your progress, keep you on track, and help you access the resources necessary to achieve success. At the end, you’ll be equipped to make a decision. Yes, take this idea into development and delivery to the market. Yes, do so, but with some changes to the idea. Or no—this idea is not one to develop further. This way, you do not spend boundless time and resources exploring ideas. Instead, you systematically and methodically explore and test your ideas to determine their viability, and quickly can make a fact-based decision on whether to proceed, or leave the idea and move on. “Eureka! Winning Ways wasn’t just an event, a one-day workshop. It’s a process, and that’s when you gain real benefit, when the learning's are ingrained in your company and become part of your process. We now have a new system to develop ideas, filter out the ones that will have dramatic impact, and make decisions on whether or not to move forward.” Jim Samocki Director Product Development, Campbell Hausfeld Cincinnati	Eureka! Client Stories Seeking a process to prioritize and implement ideas to fill new Lean-created capacity, Brunson turned to Eureka! Winning Ways. Four months later they launched two new products that will deliver $300k in sales. After reloading, the next ideas in development should bring in $400k. Read More + Small companies like Model Graphics rarely have the time to dream. A few days with Eureka! Winning Ways set them on a course to continuously seek out, explore, and implement new ideas. Read More + Questech believes its Eureka! idea will not only triple the size of their business, but change their industry as well. All it took was the Eureka! Winning Ways-inspired confidence to think big and commit to trying it out. The results speak for themselves. Read More + Giving new marketing prominence to an established in-house brand increased Richards sales for that line by 70%, just six months after their initial Eureka! Session. Now they’re ready to do the same thing for another line. Read More + Within just a few months of its initial Eureka! Winning Ways session, Rosewood Industries is projecting huge gains from the team’s new ideas—as much as 50% growth in sales in 18 months, and 70% growth in 3 years! Read More + Taking inspiration from Eureka! Winning Ways, this company’s next-generation leadership is stretching a bakery’s reach far beyond Ohio, bringing the love of what they do to millions more customers. Read More + A Eureka! session opened up new business segment opportunities for Buck Knives, which could grow their company by 400%. Says owner CJ Buck: "You’d be a fool not to do it." Read More + A renewed focus on the end-user and commitment to focus on what makes their products different enough for customers to care has inspired Campbell Hausfeld’s newest ideas. As a result, the company projects $12 million in new sales in the first year for these products, and nearly three times that amount down the line. Read More + Read All Eureka! Stories

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