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Japan TRIZ Symposium Continues
01/01/2010 | Editor
Toru Nakagawa was in a planning meeting for the 2011 Japan TRIZ Symposium when the earthquake hit last month. In his current newsletter http://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/nakagawa/TRIZ/eTRIZ/ he compRead More
Reduce Interview Wait Time for Candidates
01/01/2010 | Editor
Hi,I am looking for ideas on how to reduce the wait time for candidates coming to my organization. There are currently 4 rounds that they go thru and the approx time they spent on this is 9 hours. WeRead More
Fyi-“the Concept of Innovation” Open Courseware
01/01/2010 | Editor
Fellow RealInnovation Poster, Good morning!FYI, in case you have have not seen this before, here is the link that you may find interesting — a (free!) open courseware short course aboutRead More
What Isn’t Innovation
01/01/2010 | Editor
I get so tired of seeing the word innovation applied to things that are not innovation. Anyone else?My favorite recent example? A magazine that said cooking with margarine was innovative. What? ItRead More
Do You Generate Employee Creativity and Innovation?
01/01/2010 | Editor
Or do you cause your employees to refuse to use their natural creativity and innovation?This is a simple test of 10 questions. Rank yourself on a scale of 1 to 10 for each question, 10 being the bestRead More
Life Cycle Management
01/01/2010 | Editor
TRIZ is great for solving identified problems. But how do I use TRIZ on Life Cycle managment issues. There are no current problems, I just want to do some minor changes to keep my product interreRead More
Software for Innovation?
01/01/2010 | Editor
Is there software for directed innovation? I've heard of Goldfire – anyone have any experience with this?I work for a major pharmaceutical company. I wonder if using software would be a way to eaRead More
Fyi-“keeping an Open Mind”– Mental Tools
01/01/2010 | Editor
FYI, here is the link to the first part of a several-part monograph about “Keeping an open mind”, from the Center for the Study of Intelligence (part of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency) —Read More
Leadership
01/01/2010 | Editor
An awesome book on leadership. “The Five Dysfunctions of a TeamÓ by Patrick Lencioni. This book is a great book to really get your team engaged in the team concept, and it is a quick and easy read asRead More
Does Innovation Come First or Last?
01/01/2010 | Editor
There's a lot of talk about innovation and six sigma…Should innovation come first? Then six sigma? Or should you start to innovate after getting all processes under control? ThRead More
“how to Develop “breakthrough” Products and Services
01/01/2010 | Editor
FYI, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has posted another FREE open courseware offering regarding innovation — this one is entitled “How to Develop “Breakthrough” Products and ServiceRead More
Which Methodology is Best?
01/01/2010 | Editor
“TRIZ and DFSS are controversial. Strict methodologies do little more than stifle innovation, says the brainstormers. Random idea generation is undisciplined, often unproductive and a big money pit, cRead More
Companys in Ny Specialized in Innovation?
01/01/2010 | Editor
Can you name some companies working with innovation? I'm working with groundbreajking ideas in that direction and would like to visit some companies for mutual inspiration.Seb.&nRead More
Fool Proofing
01/01/2010 | Editor
Dear friendscan anyone tell me how to implement fool proofing in consumer durables industry. How to involve the shop floor employees in kaizen activities such as “poka-yoke” despite their rigorous scRead More
Innovation in Consumer Durables Industry
01/01/2010 | Editor
Dear AllI am vikrant from india. Currently i am working in a consumer durables industry which manufactures (Refrigetators, CTV's, Washing machines, Desktop PC's etc). I am in Manufacturing InRead More
Comments About Innovation by Knowledge Brokers
01/01/2010 | Editor
Hi.. I am engineering student . I would like to know your comments about the Innovation by knowledge brokers (spanning multiple industries to innovate by transferring knowledge from where it is knownRead More
Innovation: Art, Blue Ocean, Dilemma
01/01/2010 | Editor
Green clovers and purple diamonds anyone?I'm catching up on some innovation reading and am frustrated finding so much that says, yes, go do it, it's so important. But where's the how?I&#Read More
Oecd China/innovation Report
01/01/2010 | Editor
Hello all,In the spirit of Quality Colorado's sharing of information, here is the link to the recent OECD report on innovation in China. http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/54/20/39177453.pdfIt includeRead More