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Elliot Consulting Adds TRIZ Predictive Failure Analyses to Its Services

Tampa, Fla. -- March 15, 2006 -- Steve Elliot, president of Elliot Consulting Services, Inc. (ECS), today announced that ECS has formed a strategic partnership with Jack Hipple, President of Innovation-TRIZ to offer predictive failure analyses to its business continuity planning services.

TRIZ (a Russian algorithm for Theory of Inventive Problems Solving) is the only scientifically based inventive problem solving process and tool kit. Its basis is the study of the global patent literature and the identification of the most inventive patents. Analyzing these patents yields consistent patterns of invention and lines of technological evolution that are constantly used across all areas of science and technology. These generic inventive principles can then be applied to all other areas of technology, greatly reducing the time to produce breakthrough ideas and inventions.

Jack Hipple, a nationally recognized expert in innovation and problem solving, has developed a system which utilizes the TRIZ thinking tools in a "reverse" or saboteurial fashion. This predictive failure analysis is specifically directed at identifying critical failure points and vulnerabilities in systems, processes, emergency plans, and organizational systems. These tools include cause and effect modeling software that identifies concerns beyond what is possible to achieve with standard industry hazard analysis techniques.

Steve Elliot stated, "Jack has helped our clients take any of their critical systems, processes, business resources, or steps of their emergency preparedness plans and use this analytical process to expose previously unexpected vulnerabilities and single points of failure. Jack is a master at teaching our clients not to depend upon checklists, but rather to 'think like a saboteur' and MAKE SURE you know how your business continuity plan might fail."

About Jack Hipple
Jack is a chemical engineer with 30 years of industrial experience. He is a certified TRIZ (Inventive Problem Solving specialist and teaches innovation and hazard analysis for the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers). His clients have included Kraft Foods, the Bank of Montreal, BP/Amoco, Dow Chemical, GAF Building Products, S.C. Johnson, and Siemens Westinghouse.

About Steve Elliot
With thirty plus years as a highly successful national account manager, corporate trainer, and senior sales executive from the communications and high-technology industries, Steve Elliot founded Elliot Consulting Services in 2003 to provide business survival solutions for his clients. Steve's broad professional experience includes sales, marketing, business development, operations, project management, business continuity planning and emergency preparedness with companies like AT&T, Control Data, Westinghouse, and ABC/Capitol Cities.

About Elliot Consulting Services
ECS develops survival solutions designed to protect vital business resources and processes. ECS builds and evaluates resiliency models tailored to the unique needs of its clients so that in the event of an unplanned disruptive incident, the essential components of an organization will continue to function with minimal loss.

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