nnovation. The search for new directions generally requires the ability to innovate, which frequently requires knowledge not available within a client corporation. Creativity for new product and new venture breakthroughs flows from the right people attacking the problem at the right time. Our approach stimulates innovative thought by accessing outside experts to provide the knowledge needed to move in a new direction. We do this through our Knowledge Network. The Knowledge Network is based on our established relationships with over two thousand leading specialists in a wide range of disciplines. We convene groups of carefully selected specialists from our Knowledge Network pool to form "Custom Think Tanks". In these groups the best ideas and insight from each discipline are creatively combined and adapted to form new concepts. We have conducted over 500 such innovation-producing Custom Think Tanks for our clients.

ntrapreneurship. Intrapreneurship is an innovative implementation tactic for new business growth and venture development. Guided by our understanding of the characteristics of successful entrepreneurs, we help our clients select employees who possess entrepreneurial motivations. Then we combine a strategically directed new business concept with an entrepreneurial employee, and manage the development of a business plan. We have proven that the common denominators of successful entrepreneurship can be put to work within companies to achieve rapid cost-effective implementation of new directions. In short, we are turning entrepreneurship, inward, and it becomes, intrapreneurship.

rowth. We have implemented many successful new business ventures for our clients. In the course of these efforts we have learned that entrepreneurial motivations alone are not sufficient to ensure success, a supportive culture is also necessary. Corporate growth only flowers in the right corporate culture. We have discovered that there are specific, definable areas of corporate culture that will affect growth. We analyze five dimensions of culture: Power, Wealth, Values, Knowledge and Aesthetics. In this way we are able to make specific recommendations to move a corporation's culture in the direction of becoming more supportive to new ventures and new business formation activities. This is a process that we call Corporate Cultural Assessment. It directly enhances the rate of success in new product development and new business ventures.