About Commentator: Kady Srinivasan

Kady Srinivasan

Ms. Kady Srinivasan, a Manager based in Clarkston’s Chicago office brings experience in strategy, sales and marketing and supply chain management advising companies in the consumer products and retail industries.  From assessments, performance benchmarking to process improvement, change management … Read More

TRIZ Papers Win Awards at ICED

Ellen Domb

ICED – the International Conference on Engineering Design – is the flagship event of the Design Society. The Seventeenth Conference was held last week at Stanford University in the USA. Over 200 papers were presented by a wide range of participants. Cause … Read More

Innovation at the Verge

Lynda Curtin

Futurist, Joel Barker has a new video presentation–Innovation at the Verge. You may want to view the preview.

I am planning on using it with a client to help them clear out the work pressures from their minds, … Read More

Computer-Aided Innovation Conference in Harbin, China: Day 1, Afternoon Session

Ellen Domb

Report on the Computer-Aided Innovation conference in Harbin, China.  Day 1, afternoon session.

Two parallel sessions for the afternoon gave a wide variety of speakers an opportunity to tell the conference about a wide variety of research in … Read More

Computer-Aided Innovation Conference-Live Report

Ellen Domb

Hello to TRIZ Journal and Real Innovation readers from the great city of Harbin, China.   I will report live from the 3rd IFIP Working Conference on Computer Aided Innovation (CAI): Growth and Development of CAI.  Many aspects of CAI … Read More

Putting the NO in InNOvation

Jack Hipple

Have you seen the recent frequently running ad from Post Cereals about Shredded Wheat? It hypes the the fact that shredded wheat is virtually unchanged from its original form decades ago and by golly it’s going to stay that … Read More

Keep the Antenna Out!

Jack Hipple

In a column two weeks ago, I made some serious suggestions regarding thinking about innovative discoveries and their ultimate outcome prior to investing tons of money. Let’s take the other tack to see both sides of innovation and discoveries.

Using TRIZ Tools for Airport Runway Optimization

TRIZ tools are used in the conceptual design and layout of runway models for the effective use of short length runways. When handling bigger aircrafts at smaller airports one must consider the economic effects and benefits of the larger airliners.Read More

Advanced Electrical Discharge Machining and TRIZ

Electrical Discharge Machining (EDM) is a non-traditional process based on thermoelectric energy between a work piece and an electrode. This work revealsRead More

What Job Is Twitter Helping Customers To Do?

Rod King

Confession of an Early, Remote Customer.

Everyday people use it. Celebrities use it. And even politicians at the national level use it. Yes, it’s Twitter! But, what really is Twitter?

About two and half years ago, I read a … Read More

Ideal Final Interface – What Should Have Come First, User Interface or Function?

Prakasan Kappoth

I was introduced by this book called “Design of Everyday Things” authored by Donald Norman by a friend of mine few years back. I was ignorant to the fact that there is such a great amount of work going on in the … Read More

What If This Works?

Jack Hipple

In my days as Discovery Research Director at Dow Chemical, I was given a large chunk of money reserved for research and new product projects unrelated to the current business areas. This money was taken from the line R&D … Read More

Searching for Industries With the Greatest Pain … The Story Continues

Rod King

Joey was like many inventors. He had come up with a great technology that involves a visual process for better organizing massive amounts of information. He was now finding cool ways to apply the technology.

 â€œSearch is cool,” Joey … Read More

Japan TRIZ Symposium 2008 Presentations Online

Ellen Domb

Great news! Toru Nakagawa has announced that the Award-winning presentations of the Japan TRIZ Symposium 2008 are now publicly posted in their Official Pages, in the form of PDF slides both in English and in Japanese. http://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/nakagawa/TRIZ/eTRIZ/

Because these … Read More

TARP and Stress Tests

Jack Hipple

Reading The Wall Street Journal and listening to the business news the last few days makes me think we are in a cardiology unit. I have never heard the expression “stress test” used in a business context before, let … Read More

Business Model Innovation: What is it?

Rod King

Joey Bloggs was nervous. He paced the corridor as he waited for his turn. To Joey, it felt like the first time when he ventured into the ocean with his surfboard. A creative entrepreneur with big dreams, Joey was … Read More

Creative Conference Experience

Ellen Domb

The Lean Product and Process Development Exchange is happening in Hilton Head, South Carolina, USA this week. I’m not a dis-interested participant, of course:  my co-author Katherine Radeka is the conference chair (see https://the-trizjournal.com/archives/2009/04/04/ for our article linking TRIZ … Read More

Economic Impact of Increased US Savings – Contradiction and Opportunities?

Prakasan Kappoth

A recent article published by McKinsey (March ’09) quarterly shows this interesting (to me at least) study on the increasing US consumer savings in the last couple of quarters. Well, in a time when we see the bad news all … Read More

Why Create the Ideal State?

Bob Malanga

I always used a combination of Six Sigma & TRIZ to solve problems but always started with the Ideal State and worked backwards.  A simple problem like figuring out the fastest way to get from Chicago to New York … Read More

HP Talks TRIZ

Katie Barry

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 in a new … Read More