Innovation, Creativity, and Invention

Mike and Tim,Profit and Purpose are two attributes which are connected. Howsoever distant they may be, the relationship is always corresponding and direct. If there has been no conflict till nowRead More

Do You Generate Employee Creativity and Innovation?

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

Fyi-open Courseware Links-creativity and Innova

FYI, here are some (free!) open courseware offerings available on the Web related to Creativity and Innovation:1 — Managing the Innovation Process, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIRead More

Do You Generate Employee Creativity and Innovation?

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

Do You Generate Employee Creativity and Innovation?

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

Do You Generate Employee Creativity and Innovation?

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

Do You Generate Employee Creativity and Innovation?

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

General Motors Creativity Tools

hii would like to know about the general motors [GM] currently using creativity tools in their company.Read More

Do You Generate Employee Creativity and Innovation?

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

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

Do Schools Kill Creativity?

Lynda Curtin

I have come across the compelling work of creativity expert, Sir Ken Robinson, which I want to share with you via his very funny and dramatic presentation – Do Schools Kill Creativity? He delivered this presentation at a TED … Read More

Creativity and Innovation Management Conference

Praveen Gupta

DePaul University’s Center for Creativity and Innovation held its first annual conference on October 26, 2007. The conference had Matthew Wise, CEO of Q Interactive, Tom Stat, Associate Partner at IDEO, and many other speakers on topics ranging from … Read More

Limitation Stimulates Creativity

Ellen Domb

My colleague Akhilesh Gulati recently ran this essay on the use of limitations to stimulate innovation in the Radical Thinking column of his newsletter www.pivotmc.com which I recommend to our readers.   I have seen this limitation effect many times, … Read More

Personal Report from the American Creativity Association Meeting Austin TX USA, March 22-25, 2006

By Ellen Domb editor@the-trizjournal.com

I went to the American Creativity Association meeting with two purposes in mind: 1. To tell the non-TRIZ creativity people about TRIZ 2. To learn what the non-TRIZ creativity people do

As a TRIZ consultant and … Read More

Special issue of the magazine Creativity and Innovation Management

Guest Editor: Martin Möhrle

EDITORIAL ARTICLES

What is TRIZ? From Conceptual Basics to a Framework for Research MARTIN G. MOEHRLE

New and Emerging Contradiction Elimination Tools DARRELL MANN

The Integration of TRIZ with Other Ideation Tools and Processes … Read More

Book Review: Principles of Survival (A Theory of Everyday Creativity) By: Gennady Kizevich

by Gennady Kizevich Reviewed by Michael S. Slocum, Ph.D., M.B.B., T.Sc. Details: 352 pages, paperback edition available from Amazon.com for $17 US (a bargain). This book was published by Washington House in March of 2004.

Editor’s note: So that our … Read More

Proposal Of A Set Of Fundamental Principles For Knowledge-Based Creativity Techniques

By: Jaime Beleta jbeleta@eic.ictnet.es

Foreword TRIZ methodology and related techniques were classified as knowledge-based by Alla Zusman (1). The knowledge-based concept was also used by Seymon Savransky in his proposed definition of TRIZ (2). This classification is accurate and useful … Read More

An Overview of Synoptics and the Six Challenges of Creativity

An Overview of Synoptics and the Six Challenges of Creativity

Martin Hyatt, PhD mtphr@juno.com

This paper introduces Synoptics, an approach to creativity, in the context of six challenges to … Read More

A TRIZ-based Creativity Tool for Food Processing Equipment Design

A TRIZ-based Creativity Tool for Food Processing Equipment Design

M. Totobesola-Barbier, C. Marouz’, F. Giroux CIRAD-AMIS-PAA1, Equipment and Process Design Laboratory 73, avenue J.-F. Breton 34398 Montpellier CEDEX 5, France Tel: 33 (0)4 67 61 65 97 Fax: … Read More

Why Study Tradeoffs? Creativity, Business, Science and Expertise

By Kalevi Rantanen TRIS OY Brahenk. 9 E 18 FIN-20100 TURKU, FINLAND phone/fax +358 2 251 1623 E-mail: kalevi.rantanen@kolumbus.fi … Read More