Is a Chief Innovation Officer Necessary?

I'm finding more references/quotes to chief innovation officers at some larger organizations. Is this really necessary? Is it comparable to having a MBB for six sigma? Anybody ever worked with oneRead More

Measuring Innovation by Time to Market?

I listened to a webcast yesterday about product innovation. One of the speakers said one of the ways they measure success is by the time it takes to get to market. I didn't get to ask my questionRead More

My Innovation Story of 2009

Praveen Gupta

I took some time off writing commentaries for RealInnovation about a year ago. Reflecting over last 12 months for innovation activities, I have seen great interest in innovation all over the world. People are talking about innovation at all levels. … Read More

TRIZ & Systematic Innovation Enhances Hoshin Kanri

This paper reviews the contradiction that gave rise to Hoshin Kanri and uses the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ)/Systematic Innovation (SI) to explain the results.Read More

Business Innovation Conference 10/7/2009 Afternoon

Ellen Domb

Jerry Smith’s presentation on “Intellectual Property & Innovation Management:  The Biggest Opportunity for Differentiation”  took us on a spectacular tour of Jerry’s background in psychology, software, aviation, entrepreneurship,  visualization, film making, academia…   Great for after lunch when the audience … Read More

Business Innovation Conference 10/7/2009 Second Morning Session

Ellen Domb

What a challenge to the speakers who followed Luis Reis to get the audience re-engaged!   I went to the “Innovation in Tough Times” by Peter Balbus and Melissa Giovagnoli.   They asked for some crowd sourcing  input; the participants were … Read More

Business Innovation Conference 10/7/2009

Ellen Domb

Keynote speaker for Day 2 of the conference was Luis Filipe Reis from Inovacao Sonae (division of the family-owned 10Billion Euro Sonae company, which has shopping malls, other retail, real estate, investment managment, construction material manufacturing, and telecom) in Portugal. … Read More

Afternoon Business Innovation Conference 10/6/2009

Ellen Domb

The afternoon program at the Business Innovation Conference kicked off with a great presentation by Thomas Jacobius and Robert Anderson of the IIT Interprofessional Projects Program, which is a very unusual example of academic innovation.   Students at all levels … Read More

Business Innovation Conference 10/6/2009 – Second Session

Ellen Domb

Three breakout sessions = tough choice.   I will report on the session by Irena Suznjevic from SimBex company in Croatia, who reported on her research AND application of methods of personifying innovation.   That means I passed up session on … Read More

Live Report from the Business Innovation Conference 10/6/2009

Ellen Domb

Real Innovation Commentator Praveen Gupta is the chairman of the Business Innovation Conference that is running this week at Illinois Institute of Technology in Wheaton, a suburb of Chicago IL USA. This is a personal travel report, on the … Read More

Innovation in a Carbon Constrained World

Kady Srinivasan

Hello everyone! This is my first post on RealInnovation.com and I am very excited to be a part of this dynamic community. I focus on Sustainability in my work and am starting a series of posts on Sustainability Innovation … Read More

Innovation at the Verge

Lynda Curtin

Futurist, Joel Barker has a new video presentation–Innovation at the Verge. You may want to view the preview.

I am planning on using it with a client to help them clear out the work pressures from their minds, … Read More

Computer-Aided Innovation Conference in Harbin, China: Day 1, Afternoon Session

Ellen Domb

Report on the Computer-Aided Innovation conference in Harbin, China.  Day 1, afternoon session.

Two parallel sessions for the afternoon gave a wide variety of speakers an opportunity to tell the conference about a wide variety of research in … Read More

Computer-Aided Innovation Conference-Live Report

Ellen Domb

Hello to TRIZ Journal and Real Innovation readers from the great city of Harbin, China.   I will report live from the 3rd IFIP Working Conference on Computer Aided Innovation (CAI): Growth and Development of CAI.  Many aspects of CAI … Read More

Putting the NO in InNOvation

Jack Hipple

Have you seen the recent frequently running ad from Post Cereals about Shredded Wheat? It hypes the the fact that shredded wheat is virtually unchanged from its original form decades ago and by golly it’s going to stay that … 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

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

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

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