How good is the new Droid phone? I can't tell you that - but I CAN tell you that the premise of an ad I found displaying on CNN.com tonight has me intrigued.The ad (shown in the static screen grab here) states plainly "Compromise ...READ MORE›
"A Problem-Solver's Guide to Copycatting" is an article by Dan Heath and Chip Heath for Fast Company. The article looks at how P&G explored biomimicry with the aid of the San Diego Zoo for innovation inspiration. They state, ...READ MORE›
Phil McKinney, the chief technology officer of Hewlett-Packard's personal systems group, may not be familiar with the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ) - an innovation methodology - but he is talking about a key TRIZ tool ...READ MORE›
I spent the day at TRIZCON yesterday. TRIZCON is the annual
conference hosted by the Altschulller Institute for TRIZ Studies (AI)
which draws an international audience of participants.
After some opening comment by Mansour ...READ MORE›
Last week I was in Miami for iSixSigma Live! Summit & Awards. Innovation made its way into the agenda in a breakout and a workshop, and it was also a topic for the first day's general session – David Silverstein, President and ...READ MORE›
You could say it doesn't take much to make me happy, because I was thrilled to see TRIZ (the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving), an innovation methodology, featured in an article by BusinessWeek just before the end of 2008.
The ...READ MORE›
I’ve spent the past 30 years as a technologist, inventor and trainer of systematic innovation for Procter & Gamble, but also in the unusual role of being a corporate cartoonist . Being both a divergent artist and a convergent ...READ MORE›
It has been a very busy month. The economic climate is heating up activity in the innovation space. I am heads down preparing a new development plan responding to the feedback from clients who attended an Advisory Council meeting, and ...READ MORE›
If you thought innovation wasn’t applicable to a problem as large as the global economic crisis, you thought wrong.
Creating a new product, process or service is all about solving a need – giving your customer what they ...READ MORE›
Each year, Booz & Company analyzes R&D spending and determines the top 1000 spenders who are named their “Global Innovation 1000.”
This year’s analysis takes a different look at the R&D spending and reveals ...READ MORE›
TRIZ (pronounced “trees”) is the (Russian) acronym for the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving – a methodology for systematic innovation.
It was developed in the former Soviet Union beginning in the 1940s by Genrich ...READ MORE›
It would make life so much simpler if everyone agreed as to what innovation means. Is it invention? Is it an invention that is sold? Is it the extension of a product line or the development of a new product line completely?
For ...READ MORE›
I am taking the bullet train this morning from Tokyo to Kyoto to go speak at the 2008 Japanese TRIZ Symposium. While in Japan, I have also had the chance to meet with several members of the Japanese innovation community. It is ...READ MORE›
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