Applied Marketing Science is one of the leading Voice of the Customer consulting companies in the world, with proven methodologies for gathering the Voice of the Customer, training and coaching clients in VOC methods, and business brainstorming using state-of-the-art, web-based tools. Over the past 20 years, we have helped hundreds of clients in a broad range of industries incorporate “best practices” into their product and service development processes.

INNOVATE Llc is a consultancy known for enabling business leaders to achieve Growth through Breakaway Innovation. Doug Berger, founder, is author of the book, The One Hour Breakthrough. We publish The Innovators electronic magazine, featuring interviews with cutting-edge thought leaders and industry executives. Innovate Speaks houses our faculty of corporate and conference speakers, highly reputed as dynamic, engaging and insightful. Our New-to-the-Company framework is helping corporations to crack the code on commercializing organic growth from non-traditional sources. INNOVATE Llc - your catalyst for realizing unprecedented business value.

Capital C is an international award winning fully-integrated marketing communications agency. We create BIG IDEAS THAT WORK through our proprietary Storyboard process. We work with the leading marketers across North America, including Pepsi, Frito-Lay, Quaker-Tropicana-Gatorade, Unilever, CIBA Vision, Hallmark, Xbox, Cara Foods, Microsoft, Pep Boys, ICI Paints, Gillette and Duracell. Our goal is to create a story, amplified across all relevant consumer touchpoints, including Promotions, POP, Customer and Retail Marketing, Event and Grassroots, Innovation, Strategy, and Digital/Web/Mobile communications.

NineSigma's proprietary process, based on the principles of Open Innovation, enables Global 1000 clients to locate, connect and facilitate real business partnerships for bringing inventive new technologies and concepts to market.  NineSigma's open network of innovators spans industries, geographies, and technical disciplines.  It is the largest of its kind, and includes universities, industry leaders, trade organizations, research labs and inventors from around the world.

Research International is the world leader in custom market research services.  We work as partners to help clients gain a better understanding of consumers and customers, solve problems, and develop knowledge to create successful brands and businesses.  Experts in research into all aspects of market strategy, innovation and branding, from consumer and market analysis to idea generation, concept development and concept testing, brand equity, brand positioning, and customer satisfaction.  We listen to more people in more places than any other agency and we are also the only agency that offers a complete innovation journey from insight and ideation to testing and monitoring.  All our work is supported by our continual investment in knowledge management systems, in quality at every stage of our operations, and in innovative research solutions developed by our global network of Marketing Science Centres and Qualitative experts.

Improve your idea flow, reduce the cycle time from idea to new product or service and build a sustainable, repeatable innovation process. Our collaborative software applications help your team Innovate on Purpose, to generate, evaluate and manage ideas, launch new products and services, and support the entire innovation process.

InnoCentive is a web-based business that connects a global community of scientists to innovation driven companies with challenging R&D problems. "Seeker" companies post challenges confidentially and anonymously. "Solvers" from a wide range of disciplines apply their expertise, time and resources and submit solutions. InnoCentive manages the entire process and only if a submitted solution meets the Seeker's criteria is an award paid out. This combination of global reach and pay-for-results is truly revolutionary.

InnoCentive's registered Solver community is already more than 120,000 strong. Posting challenges on InnoCentive.com gives our Seeker clients access to an unprecedented global pool of scientific talent.

Product Development Consulting, Inc. is an internationally recognized product development consulting firm focusing on optimizing processes throughout the life cycle, from strategy to product retirement. Fortune 500 and other high-growth companies look to us for an "inch-wide, mile-deep" approach that yields measurable and lasting improvement. Visit www.pdcinc.com

The Institute for Lean Innovation is the home of the Innovation CUBE. The CUBE replicates the dynamics of innovation, integrating them into a repeatable process. The CUBE was developed by Bart Huthwaite, Sr., founder of the Institute, during his work with thousands of project teams over the past 25 years.

Innovate Forum plays a leading role in helping engineering-driven manufacturing companies increase revenue and profit by developing superior products through the use of innovative technologies and processes.