Systems (Three Different Kinds)

Darrell Mann

Ask ten systems engineers to define what a system is and you’ll get at least eleven answers. Worse: they’re probably all correct. Worst: the differences, valid as they might be, create enormous potential confusion and as a result … Read More

Innovation Systems

Darrell Mann

‘Successful step-change.’ That’s our usual definition of innovation. Especially if we’re trying to be succinct. ‘Successful realisation of new customer value,’ is the slightly less condensed form. Both represent innovation as an outcome.

And if innovation is an … Read More

Trend of transition of engineering systems to microlevel today and tomorrow

Related posts:

1. SYSTEMATIC BUSINESS INNOVATION: A ROADMAP
2. Innovating From The Top – Method, Myth, or Madness?
3. Multi-Screen Analysis for Innovation Roadmapping

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Two Patterns of Evolution for Technological Systems

There are many patterns of evolution. In this paper, the authors discuss two frequently encountered patterns: transition to a high-level system and increasing ideality.Read More

TRIZ on Design-oriented Knowledge-based Systems

How to establish a relationship between the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) functional basis and TRIZ taxonomies as a first step toward the creation of a library of TRIZ-based algorithms.Read More

Instruments for Designing Consummate Systems

Only a limited number of technological systems have possessed the outstanding qualities that allowed them to enjoy enormous success over an unusually long life. The best name for them may be "consummate" systems.Read More

What Innovation Is: How Companies Develop Operating Systems for Innovation

By: Howard Smith

THE INNOVATION IMPERATIVE There isn’t a business that doesn’t want to be more creative in its thinking. According to one study, 75 percent of CEOs of the fastest growing companies claim their strongest competitive advantage is … Read More

TRIZ Solutions For Systems Dynamics Models Of A Small Community Downtown Revitalization Project

ABSTRACT The analysis of complex systems with multiple simultaneously dynamic variables can be addressed with Causal Loop or System Dynamics models. These models can provide an initial assessment of the operation and functionality of the existing or proposed elements of … Read More

Evolution Of Systems

Michel Lecoq iTER – Belgium tel. : + 32 4 278 1008 fax.: + 32 4 278 1009 lecoq.michel@skynet.be

Introduction This article is an attempt to formalize my thoughts about the evolution of products or of systems in general. It … Read More

The Functional – Resource Approach To The Forecasting Of Technical Systems Evolution – A Fragment From The Book “Evolution of technologies”, Chapter « Graphic and numerical methods based approach to forecasting tasks solving »

Yury Danilovsky (e-mail: UR7@mail.ru, www.showsin.ru) Voluslav .Mitrofanov (e-mail: mitrofanovvv@mail.ru) Denis Shevchenko (e-mail: dunya888@mail.ru) Laboratory of innovative research «SHOW SIN» (www.showsin.ru) The International University of Scientific and Technological Creativity (Saint Petersburg – Boston) 193036 Saint Petersburg, 3-n Soviet street,. 7, premise … Read More

Innovation Metrics: Embedding Innovation in an Organization’s Systems

by Joyce Wycoff jwycoff@thinksmart.com

Interviewer’s Note: Since launching the book, Driving Growth Through Innovation in November, 2002, Robert B. Tucker has been criss-crossing the globe spreading the message that innovation in leading firms is fast becoming an imbedded, systematic organizational … Read More

Evolutionary-Potentialâ„¢ in Technical and Business Systems

Evolutionary-Potential’ in Technical and Business Systems

Darrell Mann Director, CREAX, UK Phone: +44 (1225) 826465 Fax: +44 (1225) 826928 E-mail: darrell.mann@creax.com

Simon Dewulf CEO, CREAX n.v., Ieper, Belgium Phone: … Read More

Analysis of the Evolution of Training Tools and Systems Using the TRIZ Methodology

Heather M. Smolensky North Carolina State University TE-589A 8 May 2000

Under the Direction of:

Dr. Timothy G. Clapp Professor North Carolina State University

ABSTRACT

Advances in technology, global competition, customer focus, and other factors are … Read More

100+ Heuristics for Systems Transformations: A brief report of US Patent Fund Study

Tz-Chin Wei* Central Research Institute, Tatung Co. 22 Chungshan N. Rd., 3rd Sec., Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C. peterwei@ms9.hinet.net

Marco A. de Carvalho, M.Sc.* CEFET-PR Av. Sete de Setembro 3165 – Curitiba – PR – Brazil marco@nupes.cefetpr.br

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Trimming Evolution Patterns For Complex Systems

Editor’s note: Darrell Mann and the editors are very interested in collecting case studies that could prove or disprove the hypothesis presented here. Readers are invited to share their experiences, either by sending them to Darrell Mann, or by writing … Read More

Problem-Solving Systems: What’s Next after TRIZ?

(With an Introduction to Psychological Inertia and Other Barriers to Creativity)

James Kowalick, President, Renaissance Leadership Institute Voice: (530) 692-1944 ~ Fax: (530) 692-1946 ~ E-mail: headguru@oro.net

INTRODUCTION A history of systems, techniques and approaches for solving problems is presented … Read More

RAPID CONCEPTION OF NEXT-GENERATION TRANSDERMAL DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS AND NEXT-GENERATION DRUGS

The End of Technology Chaos

by Gernot Mueller, M.D., President James Kowalick, Ph.D., P.E., Technical Director BioFutures Incorporated

Abstract

BioFutures Inc. … Read More

TRIZ and Next Generation Drug Delivery Systems

Interview with Gernot Mueller, M.D.,

President BioFutures Inc.

ABSTRACT

Almost half of the venture capital in the U.S.A. is channeled into the life sciences and biomedical engineering systems. Dr. Mueller’s firm, BioFutures Inc. (BFI) has a complete … Read More