GrowthPhases ® Alliance announced today that it plans to produce a Lean Beyond the Factory Floor Symposium focused on Healthcare in the Second Quarter of 2010. The Symposium will be a two day Symposium and will be produced in Chicago, Illinois. The first day’s agenda will be similar to the Symposium agenda set in our October, 2008 Symposium Agenda. The second day’s agenda will be much more detailed and focused on Healthcare. If you have questions or have interest in our Symposium, please contact us at Contact@GrowthPhases.com.

GrowthPhases ® Alliance announced today that it has developed three new products for our clients in this difficult economy: (i) Marketing ROI; (ii) Sales Effectivenss in a Difficult Economy; and (iii) Dust in the Closet Portfolio Review. If you have interest in these products developed for our clients in the economy of 2009, please contact us at Contact@GrowthPhases.com. More details on these products will be posted on our website in the near future.

Today, February 9th, 2008, Darrell W. Cronan and Leandro de Sa agreed to accept new roles in the GrowthPhases ® Alliance as Co-Chairmen of the Board of Advisors. Mr. Cronan will focus on leadership of activities of the Alliance in the Americas and Mr. de Sa will focus on leadership of activities of the Alliance in Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia. You can reference biographies of Mr. Cronan and Mr. de Sa on the Team page of this website.

The deployment of Lean beyond the factory floor is a subject of interest to many businesses. GrowthPhases ® Alliance is sponsoring another Symposium opportunity this Fall. The focus of the Symposium will be the deployment of Lean in service businesses and functions like sales, marketing, product development, strategy, human resources, M&A and accounting. In fact, our co-sponsor, Kendall Institute, is part of a College which focuses on service business education as their core business. If you are interested or if some of your team members are interested, hold your calendars for the evening of October 14th and all day on October 15th, 2008.

The Symposium will be entitled Lean Beyond the Factory Floor. Speakers will cover the basics of Lean, Lean Supply Chain (from Purchasing to the Factory Floor), Lean Accounting, Lean Marketing & Strategy (applying the principles of Hoshin Kanri), Lean M&A, Lean Organization Management, Lean Sales and Lean outside of manufacturing (with a focus on service businesses). Orry Fiume who wrote the Shingo Prize Award winning book “Real Numbers: Management Accounting in a Lean Organization” is set to be one of our featured speakers along with other former executive team members of the Wiremold Company. Orry Fiume served as CFO of the Wiremold Company. Wiremold is featured in Chapter 7 of Jim Womack’s book entitled Lean Thinking. We will also have a panel of leaders from service businesses speaking at lunch.

Many of our clients are struggling with how to apply lean successfully across the enterprise and not just on the factory floor. If you have interest in the concept to be presented at our Symposium, please let us know by sending an email to Contact@GrowthPhases.com. You can start the registration process by sending an email as noted above or you can go directly to our co-sponsor’s website at: www.kendall-institute.com to register. Basic Registration will be $250.

Martin Hofbauer, Managing Director of Marketing Solutions Europe and also a member of the GrowthPhases ® Alliance, wrote and published the attached article recently on Lean Sales.

Martin Hofbauer Article

Ed Miller who is one of our key lean consultants within the GrowthPhases ® Alliance gave a speech at the Maryland World Class Manufacturing Consortium, quarterly meeting December 5, 2007. He spoke on Lean as a Growth Strategy.

The deployment of Lean beyond the factory floor is a subject of interest to many businesses. GrowthPhases ® Alliance is sponsoring a unique Symposium opportunity this Winter. The focus of the Symposium will be the deployment of Lean in service businesses and functions like sales, marketing, product development, strategy, human resources, M&A and accounting. In fact, our co-sponsor, Kendall Institute, is part of a College which focuses on service business education as their core business. If you are interested or if some of your team members are interested, hold your calendars for the evening of January 28th and all day on January 29th, 2008.

The Symposium will be entitled Lean Beyond the Factory Floor. Speakers will cover the basics of Lean, Lean Supply Chain (from Purchasing to the Factory Floor), Lean Accounting, Lean Marketing & Strategy (applying the principles of Hoshin Kanri), Lean M&A, Lean Organization Management, Lean Sales and Lean outside of manufacturing (with a focus on service businesses). Orry Fiume who wrote the Shingo Prize Award winning book “Real Numbers: Management Accounting in a Lean Organization” is set to be one of our featured speakers along with other former executive team members of the Wiremold Company. Orry Fiume served as CFO of the Wiremold Company. Wiremold is featured in Chapter 7 of Jim Womack’s book entitled Lean Thinking. We will also have a panel of leaders from service businesses speaking at lunch.

Many of our clients are struggling with how to apply lean successfully across the enterprise and not just on the factory floor. If you have interest in the concept to be presented at our Symposium, please let us know by sending an email to Contact@GrowthPhases.com. You can start the registration process by sending an email as noted above or you can go directly to our co-sponsor’s website at: www.kendall-institute.com to register. Basic Registration will be $250.

Today, Lean Development Structure (LDS) of Toulouse, France joined the GrowthPhases ® Alliance. Leandro De Sa is currently the CEO and Founder of LDS – Lean Development Structure, a consulting, management and executive education company focusing on operational efficiency in a variety of complex companies in diverse industrial settings. Leandro has 20-years of management experience in aerospace.

Today, August 21, 2007, Intellectual Assets, Inc. announces that it has joined the GrowthPhases ® Alliance of Consultants, Executives and Industry Experts. GrowthPhases ® Alliance Chairman, Mike Harley stated: “Every Company seeking to grow profitably must manage their intellectual property aggressively and we believe the addition of Intellectual Assets, Inc. to our Alliance will give our Alliance clients the resources they need in this critical area. Managing research and developments towards profitable growth is a unmet need in many of the industries we advise.” Paul Germeraad, CEO and President of Intelletual Assets, Inc. stated “bringing an integrated approach to business, technical and IP company planning and project management improves the quality of, and speeds up, decisions dramatically. We are pleased to provide these services to GrowthPhases ® Alliance clients”

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Today, February 21st, 2007, nxtMOVE announces that it has joined the GrowthPhases® Alliance of Consultants, Executives and Experts. nxtMOVE is headquartered in Reston, Virginia. It has about 40 employees focused on business strategy consulting globally. For more than 25 years, nxtMOVE has supported clients with capabilities and services to help them better understand and reduce risks to their business, their customers, and their markets. nxtMOVE has proven experience and expertise in providing clients with targeted decision support services in new market entry, product development, industry benchmarking, mergers & acquisitions, and other internally and externally focused initiatives. According to Chairman of GrowthPhases® Board of Advisors, J. Michael Harley: “nxtMOVE has been a critical part of almost every major strategic initiative I have led over the last 15 years. The competitive insight, customer due diligence and market analysis work it does gives the companies I work with the information they need to succeed in acquisition based growth. nxtMOVE’s membership in our team will ensure our continued successful execution of growth.” Larry Earley of nxtMOVE stated: We are excited to formalize our alliance with Growth Phases as the collaborative strategic support initiatives we continue to pursue are an excellent fit with our acquisition due diligence and portfolio company analysis focus.”

You can read more about nxtMove at www.thenxtMove.com