Who We Are: The Strategy + Innovation Group LLC is a group of Systematic Innovation and Strategy Specialists, whose methods have been applied in multiple industries from automotive, aerospace, retail design, as well as in semiconductor manufacturing & electronics designs. "We are 'expert-coaches.' Drawing on our extensive Innovation experience, we help clients achieve specific measurable results while ensuring that they are 'in the driver's seat.' We believe in doing an accurate analysis of your business issues, with guiding principle of determining what business results are most meaningful, we help clients translate their innovation strategy into an actionable and realistic plan. To achieve these results, we help clients change the way innovation work gets done, and we do via a process that you can count on that will work for you in your organization. To ensure the results achieved are lasting, we help clients build in the capability to manage the change and continuously improve – enabling them to realize more of their full potential. Mission: To provide the world with a better way to strategically and systematically innovate While our specialty in systematic innovation being tied directly to the best strategy tools and frameworks out there, we specialize in complex problem solving and problem finding in product design, manufacturing processes and assertive strategies for business models. We are mostly veterans of high-tech electronics and semiconductor manufacturing, who have delivered results in that tough demanding environment that comes from working in a Fortune 50 company with extensive experience: Technology Development Research and Development Applied Research Operations & Manufacturing Product and Process Design and Development Marketing and Sales Capital Equipment Development We have done this as both individual contributors or in senior leadership positions inside and outside of the corporate world. Our people come from a number of areas, mostly from Intel and Tektronix, as well as a couple boutique consultancies and a couple from Small and Medium Sized companies. We see ourselves as the Consumer Reports of innovation. If there is a methodology, framework, or tool that doesn't perform to standard every time, we'll tell you so. We don't want our clients or our students to be misled, ripped off or end up wasting time and money on a tool that is not effective. We come from the corporate world where the standards of performance are extremely demanding and the methods that we use to innovate MUST meet those standards of performance excellence and have value to the user. We only teach what we KNOW works, and that does so repeatably and reliably, so that you know as a consumer of our work product that you can trust that you are getting the very best that can be delivered.

1. "We Make Engineering Cool – Driving
Innovation that Works"
PROVIDING TRAINING, AND CLASSES IN
THE FOLLOWING:
 Systematic Innovation for Technology,
Manufacturing. Engineering, Design
Engineering, Software Engineering &
Architects as well as for Business and
Mgmt.
 Advanced Systematic Innovation Methods
(S-Curve Analysis, Technology Forecasting,
Trends and Laws of Tech. Evolution,
technology evaluation & forecasting for
execs, technical leaders and individual
contributors).
 Design for Innovation in Manufacturing
(DfIM) or Design for Organizational
Innovation (DfOI)
 Upon request we can create
customized Strategy, Innovation and
Change Agency training for you and
your team’s needs. Tell us what you
want and we’ll create a proposal
crafted to your specific needs
THE STRATEGY +
INNOVATION GROUP
About Us
Established: September 2003 – Present
We are a Corporate Privateering company
specializing in Innovation Management and
Strategy and New Product Development, a
Private Equity firm (we invest in ourselves and
our competencies) that enables and creates
Corporate Sustainability
Strategy + Innovation Group, LLC (S+I G) works
with partner organizations in business, academia
and government to establish, execute, and
sustain programs involving innovation,
intellectual property, rapid proto-typing, process
improvement, and organizational change via
change agency, coaching and training.
The S+IG leads the identification and selection
of innovation projects and opportunities within
and without the client organization to drive both
short and long term business and innovation
objectives that result in the materialization of real
ROI.
Industrial Innovation and Corporate
Sustainability Infrastructure Development: as
core competencies are built, cultivated and
sustained not hired or bought.
Industrial Innovation and Corporate
Sustainability Infrastructure Development: as
core competencies are built, cultivated and
sustained not hired or bought.
THE STRATEGY + INNOVATION GROUP
206 NE 102nd
Ave
Portland, OR 97220
SERVICES INCLUDE:
Application/Services Engineering:
 Project and program management with
an emphasis on an innovation
management perspective.
 Expedient product, process and
technology development that is a more
cost effective way for OEM R&D and
product, technology and process
development, since we use an
approach that larger firms lack in speed
and profitability.
We can customize our training of methods
and tools to support effective IP
development, and help identify the best
processes and approaches based on a
strategic innovation point of view
THE
STRATEGY +
INNOVATION
GROUP
"We Make Engineering Cool
– Driving Innovation that
Works"

2. We believe in a disciplined but
better way of achieving success in
New Product and Process
Development – it is our competency
that we work on every day
S+IG Partners are veterans of high-tech
firms, specializing in consumer & industrial
electronics, industrial design,
semiconductor manufacturing, and
industrial engineering firms, specializing in
commercial and military products
development. delivering results in the
demanding environments of Fortune 100
firms
Our team members have extensive
experience in:
 Research and Development
 New Technology Introduction,
 New Product Introduction,
 Applied Research
 Structural and Thermal Analysis
 Rapid Prototyping and Testing
 Advanced Materials Development
 Operations & Manufacturing
 Product and Process Design and
Development
 Capital Equipment Development
 IT and Knowledge Management
 Root Cause Analysis
 Failure Analysis & Failure Prediction
Our Team has a rich history in leading
innovation initiatives as individual
contributors, private business owners, and
in senior leadership positions inside the
corporate environment.
Strategy Development:
First we do the necessary diagnostics 1st to
find the leverage points both internally &
externally for you, or we can train you to do
the same.
We provide you with an Innovation
Performance Management System for
strategic execution using:
 A Disciplined approach to Strategy
Development
 Leveraging Systematic Innovation
methods,
 Effective application of corporate
change agency methods
So that you and your firm can create and
maintain an Innovation Pipeline that
embeds the most effective approach that
you can use and modify as your firm grows
in capability as your competency grows
Beyond the Strategic we provide tactical
Innovation Instructor “train the trainer”
training and provide real time, side-by-side
coaching with you and your team as they
grow in talent and competency. We don’t
leave you high and dry, we are in this with
you. Your success is our success. We call
it “Tactical and Strategic Innovation
Methods Instruction, Coaching and
Mentoring”
“This makes sustaining
Key operational indicators for
improving innovation success; “It’s
not failure, its rapid proto-typing of your
process and your products and services,
you are on a learning curve. We show you
what to look for and avoid the novice
mistakes when it comes to being
strategically innovative. This isn’t some
kind of cheap set of statements, this is
about developing your own Applied Rate of
Learning and gaining the competitive
advantage that it provides.
M&A support: Investigation of issues,
challenges, obstacles and barriers to
integration/value capture
Key Human-resource Investigation:
Managing the internal iceberg of resistance
to corporate change initiatives. Skill
analysis, retention and development of
both informal and formal leadership A-list
key players for transition in growth or
contraction- Development of Corp. Change
Agent methods, tools, frameworks and
mind sets