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

About Commentator: Rod King

Rod King

Dr. Rod King is a thought leader, consultant, and trainer on business model analysis, design, and innovation. In today’s world of globalization and increasing competition, enterprises need new ways to do business as well as create highly desirable and … Read More

About Commentator: Bob Malanga

Bob Malanga

Bob Malanga is a graduate of Princeton and Stony Brook Universities where he majored in Mechanical Technology and Total Quality Management.  Bob’s time at Princeton was a U.S. Navy sponsored program.   Bob spent most of his career in the … Read More

Innovation in a Zero Capital World: Ask and Trim!

Jack Hipple

In a recent issue of Industry Week (3/16/09) a major point was made about using employee input for continuous improvement without using capital. I would suggest a broader use of this principle through the use, not only of the … Read More

Be On the Lookout for Fresh Concepts

Lynda Curtin

Be on the lookout for fresh concepts: sometimes you have to start over. —– UC Riverside: The Arts and Letters Lecture Series: An Evening with Elizabeth Gilbert; March 12, 2009 Palm Springs, California. —– 

Elizabeth Gilbert is noted for … Read More

Report from TRIZCON 2009 in California

Ellen Domb

TRIZCON 2009, the eleventh meeting of the Altshuller Institute, is going on this week in Canoga Park, California, where the primary sponsor for the event, Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne is located.  About 75 people are involved in a variety … Read More

Innovation Policy for Obama

Prakasan Kappoth

The current economic scenario has triggered several discussions on emphasizing an innovation action plan for Obama administration to revitalize the US (and apparently the world) economy. The recent Business Week article by Thomas D. Kuczmarski proposing a step-by-step innovation … Read More

Innovation in Hard Times

Jack Hipple

It’s all around us. The language of hard times is everywhere, in every journal, every newspaper, in the State of the Union address, in your stockbroker statements, and in your daily conversations. In a short, but insightful article in … Read More

More With Less

Michael S. Slocum

More and more the economic pressures will increase the need for proficiency unilaterally. One way for us to respond to this challenge would be to optimize those things that we currently do. This means of course that … Read More

Sir Ken Robinson in Seattle

Katie Barry

At the end of January I had the opportunity to see creativity and innovation expert Sir Ken Robinson speak in Seattle. His new book, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything, talks about how adults (in his experience) don’t know … Read More

2009 – European Year of Creativity and Innovation

Katie Barry

If Europe has a dedicated year of creativity and innovation, do other countries/regions need their own? ————-

There’s been a lot of talk – particularly since the global recession became a reality – about whether or not government … Read More