Innovation in the New Year

Jack Hipple

We head into 2010 with uncertainty. Things look like they may be turning up a little, but many people are still cautious, considering all the financial turbulence. In times like this, it’s always best to fall back on things … 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

Innovation Vs Invention . . . Vs . . . Discovery?

Sorry for being so untimely, but I just came across your discussion as a result of a search on Innovation, Invention and Creativity.  I've been wrestling with the nuances of these concepts foRead More

“innovation Nation” Worth the Read?

Real Innovation forum members:I'm going through some piles of books and deciding what to keep and toss – is Innovation Nation worth the read?Grateful for any opinions.Thank you.Read More

Ge Healthcare-are They Using Innovation Methods?

https://the-trizjournal.com/offsite.asp?A=Fr&Url=http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/jan2007/id20070109_587285.htm?link_position=link7Would what GE Healthcare is doing be qualified as usinRead More

Innovation: Art, Blue Ocean, Dilemma

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

Innovation Tools, Anyone Have Any?

Can anyone recommend some tools that would be good to use for a small team who has the objective to redesign ordinary kitchen utensils? What can I use to get my team “creative”? Thanks for your input.Read More

Innovation Management

Is there a documented approach to Innovation management, infact any approach, structure, or process to go by ,if we ever attempt to manage innovation something similar to knowledge management.Read More

Innovation Org Body

Is there any overseeing innovation body that I can join? thank you.Read More

How Open is Open Innovation?

I had this fantastic idea on how to improve cell phones. I looked up the major phone manufacturers so I could share this idea. But it was hard to find a way to submit ideas to them. One of them (a laRead More

Memory Jogger for Innovation Tools

Hi,Trying to find a sort of a “memory jogger” type of small book that – outlines some key tools that may be applied to process and value innovate- advises on the corner stones to be consideredRead More

Axiomatic Innovation

I was reading this article on the site: https://the-trizjournal.com/content/c061025a.asp. It sounds like that's really an ideal sort of company that can do that. Does anyone know if there companRead More

Corrected Links– Open Courseware-innovation

Sorry, problem with the original links — here are the correct links:1. Managing the Innovation Process, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Sloan-School-of-Read More

Does Innovation Come First or Last?

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

Moving into Innovation Role

I'd like to move into a role of product development manager, but I've got the bsuiness knowledge and not product knowledge. Any advice?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

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

Innovation Reading

clayton christiansons book “the innovators dilemma” is pretty well known and is on my shelf waiting to read. anyone out there have some other favorites? would be nice to get a list goingRead More

Invention Vs. Innovation

Interesting comments here about the difference between invention and innovation: http://blogs.intel.com/it/2007/05/how_to_tell_an_invention_from.htmlInnovation is no longer invention once it finds aRead More

Bpm Kills Innovation

Nah. Just the opposite. If you use bus proc mgmnt techniques then you have more room–time & money–to innovate.  After the next innovation, you can BPM the heck out of it–and move on to theRead More