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MEPOL is a statewide sponsored program of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette
What we do for you
MEPOL provides Louisiana's manufacturing companies with a wide array of fundamental services, helping them to become more efficient, resilient, and strong in an increasingly competitive global market.
Continuous improvement, new product and market development, green initiatives, quality, marketing, exporting-- you name it-- at MEPOL, we make the connections that help our state's manufacturers move upward in profitability and growth.
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Link to LED's Small and Emerging Business Development Program
Events: Join us to learn about doing business in Thailand on February 1, 2012 from 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. To register, please contact Delilah.DeSouza@trade.gov. Petroleum Club, Lafayette, Louisiana Underwater Intervention Show January 24-26, 2012 http://www.underwaterintervention.com Topsides Conference & Exhibition January 31-February 2, 2012 Hilton New Orleans Riverside, New Orleans, Louisiana New Orleans Boat Show February 2-4, 2012 Superdome, New Orleans, Louisiana http://www.boatshowneworleans.com
Bureau of Industry and Security Export Control Seminar The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) and the World Trade Center of New Orleans present two workshops: ''Complying with U.S. Export Controls,'' February 7-8 and ''How to Develop an Export Management Compliance Program,'' February 9. Who should attend? All companies currently involved in exporting, including customs brokers/freight forwarders, legal service providers, or those companies planning on expanding to new markets or developing an export program for the first time. Westin Canal Place Hotel, New Orleans, Louisiana http://www.bis.doc.gov/seminarsandtraining/elsem.htm Mississippi Valley Trade & Transport Council World Trade and Transport Conference February 15-17, 2012 Omni Royal Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana |
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Louisiana companies, entrepreneurs and inventors now have a new way to get their good ideas off the ground. The Manufacturing Extension Partnership of Louisiana and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette announces the creation of the Louisiana Innovation Marketplace to allow Louisiana innovators to sell and buy technology and business ideas, communicate those ideas on a national level and commercialize their products or services.. The Louisiana Innovation Marketplace is tied to the National Institute of Standards and Technologies’ USA National Innovation Marketplace which is powered by Eureka! Ranch, a nationally recognized innovation, research and development firm, known for creation and commercialization of intellectual property. Louisiana is one of only seven universities that have an innovation marketplace. Other universities with state marketplaces for intellectual property commercialization are The University of Wyoming, The Ohio State University, Florida State University, the University of Louisville, the University of Maine and the University of Pittsburgh. This program will also allow Louisiana citizens to connect with buyers, sellers, manufacturers and distributors, and investors on a state, national and global basis. Louisiana manufacturers can register their expertise, capabilities, and resources at no cost. The Louisiana Innovation Marketplace will support deeper knowledge and infrastructure for world class training and education of businesses and entrepreneurs including the Innovation Engineering Leadership Institute which will be held April 23-25, 2012, in Lafayette, LA. Visit the marketplace at www.innovationlouisiana.com today and signup for free.
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How can you lead innovation in your company?MEPOL helps companies develop an innovation culture that continuously ignites more profitable business opportunities. We "restart" your business life cycle -- not just once, which would be a point solution -- but give you a process for continuous restarts. We develop an innovation culture by providing you the tools and confidence to create, communicate and commercialize meaningfully unique innovations. Our metrics for tracking and improving the system are Innovation Speed and Innovation Risk. These metrics matter because increasing Innovation Speed (up to 6x) and decreasing Risk (30 to 80%) increase the return you realize on the time, energy and money you invest in innovation. How to get started There are two ways for companies to get started. Option 1: The first step in the process is ACCELERATION OF SUCCESS - The ideal start is a 100 Day Jump Start. The design of the Jump Start is different for different companies.For some companies it's one CREATE session that generates a dozen documented and defined ideas. For others it's a half day CREATE session to accelerate existing ideas during the first month - followed by a bigger CREATE session to get the pipeline filled. Or it may be a half day session with Management to DEFINE all existing ideas and then selecting two to put into discovery. When existing ideas "dry up" then a CREATE Session is held. Option 2: The full leadership team of your company attends an Innovation Engineering Leadership Institute together with their MEPOL Innovation Black Belt Coach. During the first evening they work on ideas for adapting for new customers/markets. During the second evening they work on ideas for leading established customers. Following the event - you then start weekly coaching for 100 days as above. After the first 100 days - you then move to the EDUCATION Phase - Innovation Green Belt Training, etc. , followed by CULTURAL CHANGE phase - Open idea requests across the organization and then Black Belt training. Call or email today for more information about the Innovation Engineering Management System. |
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Innovation is No Longer Optional
In the past Innovation was slow and risky. Today, there is a system that increases innovation speed while decreasing risk. The Innovation Engineering Management System is a proven system of tools developed through scientific inquiry -grounded in hard data and proven reliable in real world application. Over the past 25 years, this system and the tools that make up the system were only available to the big companies -Nike, Hewlett Packard, Walt Disney, Procter & Gamble, Schlumberger and Ford Motor Company. Now thanks to the US Department of Commerce’s NIST/MEP Network it’s available to all companies.
For more information on how MEPOL can help you re-boot and re-start your company, please call Dave Thomas at 337-482-5844 or Rebecca Scherff at 337-482-6728. Both Dave and Rebecca are Innovation Black Belts at MEPOL.
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