Business Innovation Conference 10/7/2009 Afternoon

Ellen Domb

Jerry Smith’s presentation on “Intellectual Property & Innovation Management:  The Biggest Opportunity for Differentiation”  took us on a spectacular tour of Jerry’s background in psychology, software, aviation, entrepreneurship,  visualization, film making, academia…   Great for after lunch when the audience … Read More

Business Innovation Conference 10/7/2009 Second Morning Session

Ellen Domb

What a challenge to the speakers who followed Luis Reis to get the audience re-engaged!   I went to the “Innovation in Tough Times” by Peter Balbus and Melissa Giovagnoli.   They asked for some crowd sourcing  input; the participants were … Read More

Business Innovation Conference 10/7/2009

Ellen Domb

Keynote speaker for Day 2 of the conference was Luis Filipe Reis from Inovacao Sonae (division of the family-owned 10Billion Euro Sonae company, which has shopping malls, other retail, real estate, investment managment, construction material manufacturing, and telecom) in Portugal. … Read More

Afternoon Business Innovation Conference 10/6/2009

Ellen Domb

The afternoon program at the Business Innovation Conference kicked off with a great presentation by Thomas Jacobius and Robert Anderson of the IIT Interprofessional Projects Program, which is a very unusual example of academic innovation.   Students at all levels … Read More

Business Innovation Conference 10/6/2009 – Second Session

Ellen Domb

Three breakout sessions = tough choice.   I will report on the session by Irena Suznjevic from SimBex company in Croatia, who reported on her research AND application of methods of personifying innovation.   That means I passed up session on … Read More

Live Report from the Business Innovation Conference 10/6/2009

Ellen Domb

Real Innovation Commentator Praveen Gupta is the chairman of the Business Innovation Conference that is running this week at Illinois Institute of Technology in Wheaton, a suburb of Chicago IL USA. This is a personal travel report, on the … Read More

Decision-making Model to Evaluate Highly-valued Designs

Features the decision-making model to measure the ideality of products, based on TRIZ. These products are designed using innovative activities from the point of view of evolution toward increased ideality.Read More

Using TRIZ to Un-fuzzy the Fuzzy Front End

Innovation research has focused much of its efforts on what is called the fuzzy front end. The term was originally coined by Peter Koen, a professor at the Stevens Institute of Technology. It refers to the creation of new ideas and product concepts.Read More

Producing TRIZ Solutions: Odds of Success

It is a common perception in the TRIZ community that TRIZ solutions are quite different from conventional ones; they are elegant, cost-effective and even perfect, if not ideal. But what are the realistic chances of delivering one?Read More

Applying TRIZ to Business Process Reengineering

There is a misconception that TRIZ is applicable only in technological processes or products. This case study will showcase the use of problem flow technology as a way to identify a list of key problems that if solved improve business processes.Read More

The Red Zone

Jack Hipple

What is the red zone? In American football over the past ten years it has come to mean the last 20 yards to go before a touchdown–the 20 yard line of the opposing team. Why is this important? Well, … Read More

HBR Understands Resources

Ellen Domb

The October 2009 issue of the Harvard Business Review has a very nice article on what TRIZ calls the use of resources: ”The Power of Unwitting Workers.” An important part of teaching about the use of resources is explaining that … Read More

TRIZ and Six Sigma: Ellen Domb on Quality Conversations

Katie Barry

Tomorrow (Wednesday, Sept 30), Ellen Domb, founding editor of The TRIZ Journal, will be on Steve Wilson’s show Quality Conversations, hosted by BlogTalkRadio.

Steve has interviewed a plethora of quality professionals in the past. Guest apperances include Tom Kubiak, … Read More

Introducing Contradictions in Businesses – Is That a Conscious Strategy?

Prakasan Kappoth

A car that is capable of reaching half the speed of a jet cruising at 30K ft… So, we have the world’s first fastest production car, Aero costing over half a million dollar available in the Indian market. (My … Read More

Innovation in a Carbon Constrained World

Kady Srinivasan

Hello everyone! This is my first post on RealInnovation.com and I am very excited to be a part of this dynamic community. I focus on Sustainability in my work and am starting a series of posts on Sustainability Innovation … Read More

Make Information Come to You!

Jack Hipple

Accurate, timely, and low cost information can be a critical component of innovation and market research. Think about the following things that all of you have experienced or seen in the past few years. First “I Report” on CNN … Read More

TRIZ-fest 2009: Another Point of View

At TRIZ-Fest 2009 Martha Gardner was the keynote speaker. Gardner is a GE Global Research Quality Leader. She champions TRIZ as part of the company’s world-wide quality program.Read More

TRIZ-fest 2009: Ma-triz Conference and Congress Report

Over 100 TRIZ specialists from 14 countries participated in TRIZ-Fest 2009, July 25-29 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The participants delivered over 50 papers in English and Russian. Both languages were served with synchronous translation.Read More

Report on the 5th Senior Conference on TRIZ Researching

The 5th Senior Conference on TRIZ Researching was held at China’s Hunan University on April 25, 2009. It was sponsored by the Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society (CMES).Read More

Using TRIZ to Develop a New Stirling/brayton Engine

The Stirling engine is combined with the Brayton cycle in order to produce a more efficient machine by using TRIZ methodology. The result is a system that operates in a closed cycle and obtains energy from external sources.Read More