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June 2014

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20 | I nsIgh t • J u n e 2 0 14 w w w . i n s i g h t o n b u s i n e s s . c o m UPFR O N T TOP: Breakthrough Fuel won the award for "Process." From left are Bill Lee, Jennifer VanderZanden, Doug Mueller, Hannah Lehman, CEO Craig Dickman, Heather Mueller, Mark Thomson, Kelly Williams and Mark Mullins. BOTTOM: MEGTEC won the award for "Planet." From left are Justin Brown, Jeff Quass, CEO Mohit Uberoi, Mary Van Vonderen and CFO Greg Linn. I nsight Publications launched the first ever Insight Innovation Awards at its third annual thInC! event in May. Winners by category were: People – holy Family Memorial, Manitowoc; Process – Breakthrough Fuel, green Bay; Product – e solberg Company, green Bay; and Planet – MEgtEC, De Pere. st. norbert College received a special award, Integrating Innovation. "seeing the depth and breadth of innovative practices and associated business results across our region was very reassuring and exciting," one of our judges said. "All the applicants should be proud of their work and the winners that represent the 'best of the best' should be especially pleased in being recognized as leading the region in innovation." Holy Family Memorial twelve years ago, holy Family Memorial made a commitment to radical change when the health-care organization launched an initiative to move from a "sick care" to a "wellness" focus, emphasizing patient safety, quality and cost containment. e changes they made resulted not only in measurable, positive patient outcomes and employee job satisfaction, but also saved an average of more than $4.3 million annually. e organization has recently begun to help other entities in its community start their own journey toward Lean, including the city of Manitowoc. Judges were impressed by the depth in which this organization engaged Innovation awards announced Holy Family Memorial, MEGTEC, Solberg, Breakthrough Fuel, St. Norbert lauded at event its 1,200 employees with incremental improvement and "Blue Ocean strategy" as they embraced an internal mantra of "Inspired Caring." Breakthrough Fuel Breakthrough Fuel was founded on a single innovative idea: how to leverage technology and information to help shippers reduce their energy cost, consumption and emissions. Based in green Bay, the company, which employs 43 people, has made innovation a core part of its business with a commitment to release a new, innovative solution to the market every 14 months. Each year, it invests nearly 10 percent of its revenue and time into innovative projects, research and development. Breakthrough Fuel created a business model that allows its clients (large shipping organizations) to align reimbursement for fuel to the actual cost that is paid for that fuel by their transportation partners. It has been awarded two patents and has others pending for the technology that enables it to serve its clients. In a nutshell, it eliminates the distortion created by

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