A three-day innovation boot camp designed to help businesses create, communicate, and commercialize profitable ideas is scheduled for April 4-6 in Spokane.

The intensive program, called the Innovation Engineering Leadership Institute, will be hosted by Impact Washington, formerly Washington Manufacturing Services, of Mukilteo, Wash., at the Red Lion Hotel at the Park, 303 W. North River Drive, just north of downtown. It will include lectures from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and workshops from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.

The program is similar to the Six Sigma and lean manufacturing systems of process management, according to Eureka! Ranch, of Cincinnati, a business coaching company that will provide the main speaker.

The Eureka! Ranch website says the program is designed to assist managers of small and large wholesale, retail, industrial, and nonprofit companies. It claims the program will help managers overcome organizational fear of innovation by breaking down change into small, manageable steps.

The Innovation Engineering Leadership Institute was developed by the University of Maine; Eureka! Ranch; and the Manufacturing Extension Partnership, an arm of the U.S. Department of Commerce that works with small to midsize manufacturers to help them increase profits.

The cost for the three-day seminar is $1,995 for attendees from companies with more than 500 employees, and $995 for employees of nonprofit organizations and companies with fewer than 500 workers. An online brochure for the event is available at http://innovationengineering.info. Call Linda Adams at (425) 438-1146, ext. 107 for more information or to receive a discount code for the registration cost.