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RSL Communications helps sales organizations with lead generation and sales support. We're best known for BrandBASE, the only online database focused exclusively on the consumer packaged goods industry, containing brand management contacts with unprecedented depth. We also publish PromotionLINK, an advertiser-supported newsletter that announces upcoming tie-in promotion and sponsorship opportunities and execute traditional BTB direct mail campaigns.

IdeaFlow is a weblog - a web journal - on creativity and innovation that covers these questions daily: Where do new ideas come from? What conditions are best for creativity and innovation in business and how can such a climate and culture be nurtured and sustained? How can the flow of new ideas keep the business of technology moving forward, and to what extent do technology businesses need to constantly create groundbreaking new ideas and products, "disruptive" technologies, and innovative ways of doing business, in order to be successful?

Investortools, Inc. was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Yorkville, Illinois. 

The company serves institutional investment organizations by providing customized portfolio management and credit analysis systems to assist users in analysis and presentation relating to fixed income investment securities.

Our clients include mutual fund investment advisors, bank trust departments, investment counselors, insurance companies, and securities dealers. Investortools' systems are used by money market managers, portfolio managers, credit analysts, traders, representatives of securities dealers and other investment professionals.

Innovation-TRIZ offers training and consulting in the use of the breakthrough inventive process known as "TRIZ" (Theory of Inventive Problem Solving). TRIZ uses the most inventive principles in the global patent literature to provide breakthrough approaches to more ideal products and services, eliminating contradictions in product, as well as service, design and performance. Innovation-TRIZ is a leader in the application of this methodology and provides training for Fortune 500 companies, engineering societies, the World Future Society, ASTD, the American Creativity Association, and the Altshuller TRIZ Institute.

The Deal LLC is a diversified media company that is the authoritative voice of the deal economy. We strive to report, analyze and disseminate business and financial news that offers fresh insights on the deal economy, and specifically serve the global deal community – corporate and financial dealmakers, advisers and institutional investors.

The Innovise Guys are Gregg Fraley and Doug Stevenson.  They coined the term Innovisation™ to describe a combination of structured problem solving methods and improvisation tools.  Innovisation Tools are more effective than traditional ideation methods in stimulating different thinking in an ideation session.  Gregg and Doug are both trained comedy improvisers and experienced business consultants.  They host a top-rated Innovation podcast -- delivered with a humorous twist. To download, visit http://dainnoviseguys.libsyn.com.  Consider them to facilitate your next ideation session, or to conduct creative problem solving training. Experience cutting edge Innovisation tools for spontaneous thinking within a structured process.  For more information contact: gregg@greggfraley.com.

We are an innovation firm focused on helping instill innovation and creativity into the core of organizations. We work with corporations who want to build enduring innovation capabilities and create successful new products, services and communications. While advancing and sharing knowledge about what drives successful innovation, we support the innovation goals and spirit of our clients through internal capabilities benchmarking, training and workshops, new ways to uncover consumer insights and creative problem solving sessions to create new ideas and solutions to your complex challenges.