About Us

Company Background

Concept Catalysts was founded in 2000 to help organizations in any field of business and/or technology to develop and manage intellectual capital in a cost effective and efficient manner. Our Innovation on Demand process enables rapid solutions to most challenging business and technological issues.

Mission/Philosophy

Staying ahead of the competition is the single most important challenge facing any company. Concept Catalysts provides an accelerated innovation process, enabling its clients to use all their available resources to meet their business goals.

Methodology

Our methodology, Innovation on Demand, is a very powerful problem-solving process that is preceded by Situation Analysis, which consists of three major steps:

Organize the knowledge about system situation

We gather all available information about the system or situation

Develop functional model

A graphical cause-effect depiction of the system or situation

Analyze the model

The complete model clearly shows all areas of internal conflict within a system or situation and provides valuable input on the ways to resolve those conflicts.

About the President

Dr. Mark G. Barkan has more than 30 years of experience designing new and modifying existing systems, products and processes. He has been particularly effective in enabling teams/people he worked with to deliver rapid innovation at a fraction of time. Dr. Barkan was born in Kiev, Ukraine, and received his undergraduate degree, as well as M.S. and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering, at Moscow Technical University. After his arrival in the United States, he earned his M.B.A. degree at Queens College (McCall School of Business) in Charlotte, N.C., where he has resided for the past 25 years. Throughout his career, he has searched for unconventional ways to better a system he was working with. During the past 10 years, he has developed the process of Innovation on Demand, which has helped many clients to achieve great results in a short period of time. The initial application of this process at a textile equipment manufacturing company, where he served as director of engineering, resulted in two new products and significant cost reduction. Today, he assists various companies in solving technological and business problems and in predicting and preventing potential failures in systems, products, processes and technologies.