Innovation With A Little Help From Your Friends

James Todhunter

Community and Web 2.0 continue to be a recurrent theme in many of the conversations I have with innovation leaders.  Helping innovation workers leverage each other is extremely important.  The value of intellectual assets within most companies is largely … Read More

Innovation Is Good?

Ellen Domb

“How to persuade your boss that innovation is a good thing?”

I was recently invited to speak at a conference on this topic—way outside my usual comfort zone of “What is TRIZ” or “How to merge TRIZ into your … Read More

Not-so-live From iSixSigma Live! Summit & Awards

Katie Barry

Last week I was in Miami for iSixSigma Live! Summit & Awards. (iSixSigma is a sister publication to Real Innovation.) Innovation made its way into the agenda in a few places. (Readers of Real Innovation and The TRIZ Journal … Read More

The Timing is Ripe for An Innovation Communication Audit

Lynda Curtin

Yesterday, I received a marketing piece inviting me to a seminar on “How-to Survive” in a Market Downturn. I deleted it immediately. My intention is to THRIVE, not just to s u r v I v e. I hope … Read More

Once More on Innovation Versus Transformation

James Todhunter

If Bruce Nussbaum’s recent posts on the death of innovation have done nothing else, they have generated a lot of reactions in the blogosphere.  Although that inner voice is shouting “Enough already!”, I can’t resist making one more comment … Read More

The 4400

Jack Hipple

In the past two weeks or so, there has been a torrent of layoffs, plant closings, and restructurings unknown in recent times. Two major layoffs that caught my eye with my chemical industry background, were those of Dow Chemical … Read More

Holiday TRIZ -Holidaying in Crisis..

Prakasan Kappoth

Ellen Domb posted a commentary about the Holiday TRIZ when the “sub-prime” axes slowly began to uproot the decades old financial institutions like Lehman Brothers. She suggested TRIZ thinking even while you are holidaying to identify innovation opportunities around … Read More

TRIZ Community: Thanks!

Ellen Domb

The last Thursday in November is the Thanksgiving holiday in the US.   Originally a harvest festival with religious roots, thanking God for enough food to get through the winter, it has evolved into a family-oriented celebration of all the … Read More

Vibrating Mascara

Jack Hipple

In a recent Sunday papers around the world, a large full page, color (not cheap!) advertisement was shown displaying a new mascara brush from Lancome: http://www.lancome-usa.com/makeup/mascara/oscillation.aspx

When you watch the video at this site, you will hear things like: … Read More

Systematic (Software) Innovation..

Prakasan Kappoth

“…over the history of software development there have not been that many innovations..” I must have heard this statement elsewhere in some forum, but now this is the base for a new TRIZ for software innovation book recently launched. … Read More

Solve the Economic Crisis

Katie Barry

The Mexican TRIZ Association (AMETRIZ) is hosting a blog for ideas to solve the global economic crisis: http://blog.ametriz.com/.

Put that TRIZ (and other innovation methods and tools) experience to good use and submit your ideas. (And share them here, too!) … Read More

Milan: Computer-Aided Innovation

Ellen Domb

Thanks to Gaetano Cascini and Noel Leon for getting us this abbreviated report on the  2nd IFIP Topical Session on Computer-Aided Innovation, presented in conjunction with the 20th IFIP World Computer Congress (September 7-10, 2008, Milan, IT – http://www.wcc2008.org … Read More

The Tic-Tac-Toe Approach to Strategic Planning

Jack Hipple

I’d like to share with you a very simple, but powerful strategic analysis tool that I’ll just describe as the “tic-tac-toe” approach to strategic analysis. It comes from my experience with TRIZ, but it’s a much broader thinking tool … Read More

Booz & Company’s Global Innovation 1000

Katie Barry

Booz & Company announced its new Global Innovation 1000 report today –”Beyond Borders.” The report focuses on R&D expenses across the globe as a key innovation indicator. Their top 10 companies include: Toyota, General Motors, Pfizer, Nokia, Johnson & … Read More

Evolution of Browsers and Google Chrome – TRIZing it

Prakasan Kappoth

Couple of years back I was explaining the Ideal Final Result (IFR) concept to our engineers (Computer engineers) using the example of “search”. The question we tried to answer; what is the IFR for the function (for consumers) search. … Read More

Changing Corporate Culture for Innovation

Praveen Gupta

Current discussion about innovation has been dominated by the need to create a culture for institutionalizing innovation.

I posed the question “What does culture for innovation entail?” to my students representing cultures of France, China, Korea, Azerbaijan, USA, India, … Read More

About Commentator: Prakasan Kappoth

Prakasan Kappoth

Prakasan Kappoth (Prakash) is a Senior Manager working as a Systematic innovation facilitator and innovation consultant at MindTree Ltd., Bangalore, India; a mid-sized IT Service Company delivering techno-business solutions to clients across the globe. He helps MindTree’s internal and … Read More

Nominate Your Company for iSixSigma Live! Award!

Katie Barry

In 2009, Real Innovation’s sister website, iSixSigma, will host its first annual Summit and Awards in Miami. Although there are some who debate whether innovation and process improvement can work together, we know that as successful as they can … Read More

A Dangerous Trend in R&D

Praveen Gupta

Sometime ago, I read that a new technology officer of a leading computer manufacturing company has discontinued R&D projects that go beyond 2-3 years. The top 20 or so projects were retained for generating short term revenue. Leadership in … Read More

The Fourth TRIZ Symposium in Japan

Guest Commentator

Paul Filmore is reporting from The Third TRIZ Symposium in Japan.———

I have arrived to my second Japan TRIZ conference near Kyoto.  The official title is ‘The 4th TRIZ Symposium in Japan’.  After a 12 hour flight, three trains; … Read More