innovate

Is an Innovation Contest Innovative?

Katie Barry — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:28:11 -0500

I read a news item today promoting yet another contest/open innovation/co-innovation website a company has developed to draw ideas from the general public. Is an innovation contest innovative?

No. An emphatic no, in fact – No!

I think that companies going the contest/open innovation route are cheating themselves – and their customers – out of their own innovative potential. It’s passive. Companies waiting and hoping someone will come to their website and submit the next big thing is not innovative.

Booz & Company's Global Innovation 1000

Katie Barry — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:05:38 -0400

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 that 91 percent of those top 1000 spend that money in countries other than where their headquarters are located.

Genrich Altshuller - The Father of TRIZ

Katie Barry — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 12:59:49 -0400

TRIZ (pronounced “trees”) is the (Russian) acronym for the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving – a methodology for systematic innovation.

Innovation Is a Science

Katie Barry — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 14:56:22 -0400

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?

Systematic Innovation

Katie Barry — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:03:20 -0400

Katie Barry is the editor of Real Innovation (http://www.realinnovation.com) and The TRIZ Journal (http://www.triz-journal.com). Staying ahead of the competition is a necessary part of doing business for products, processes and services. That success can't be dependent upon genius, but must be developed through the application of systematic innovation. Systematic innovation is "real" innovation - it happens by applying methodologies and tools.

Bio and Interests: Katie Barry

Katie Barry — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:43:19 -0400

Prior to becoming the editor of Real Innovation and The TRIZ Journal, Katie held editorial positions at Fenwick Publishing Group, Inc., and AMN Healthcare, Inc. She also worked at the Children’s Defense Fund and served in the correspondence office of First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton at the White House.

Katie has a B.A. in political science from the University of California at Santa Barbara, an M.B.A. from The George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and a certificate in professional writing and rhetoric from Northern Arizona University.

Product Design Resources

Erik Bluemner — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 23:42:07 -0400

Resources for designers, engineers, project managers, and product marketers. Original articles, guides, and how-to's, as well as the best articles, guides, and how-to's from the web relating to product design.

Thinking about L10n

Meghan Trainor — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:24:20 -0400

Communications Lab

Bio and Interests: Sara Leslie

Sara Leslie — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:58:53 -0400

I am a Silicon Valley (Santa Cruz) native who specializes in Web Marketing for companies in the US and worldwide. I currently work for Cisco Systems and manage online marketing projects for Small/Medium Sized Businesses (SMB) on the side. I particularly enjoy working on localization projects, website launches and revisions, developing online communities and anything cool and new online.

In my free time I like to drive too fast, train horses and mountain bike.