Datex-Ohmeda (D-O) needed help jump-starting their product innovation processes. Several D-O employees were trained in CPS v6.1™, so they could use the methods and tools to efficiently increase their R & D efforts and outputs. Using the methods and tools, D-O began looking at its products from the consumers’ point of view. Consequently, D-O is producing step-change products that will change the face of anesthesiology and provide substantial progress in accomplishing their innovation goals.