| On 05, Jan 2009

Bonne Année! Feliz Año Nuevo! Xin Nian Kuai Le!  To all our readers worldwide – Happy New Year!

We begin 2009 with a mix of topics:

• Candy lovers will want to read the case study on the improved ease of accessing Mars candy.
  
• Patent research continues; Darrell Mann shares an update on his 2006-2008 findings.
  
• The combination of TRIZ with creative problem solving methods is examined in “TRIZ: Incorporating the BRIGHT Process in Design.”

News

• It’s your last chance to register for iSixSigma Live! Summit & Awards, January 12-16 in Miami. The event includes an innovation track and master class workshop on the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ)! For more information, go to: http://live.isixsigma.com/events/summit/miami/2009/default.html
  
• Take a brief look back at 2008 to read an article in BusinessWeek about TRIZ, “Tech Innovations for Tough Times: How GE and others are using alternative techniques such as TRIZ to make R&D more efficient.”

Until February, happy TRIZ reading!

Katie Barry
Editor
editor@the-trizjournal.com

Ellen Domb, Marco de Carvalho and Paul Filmore
Editorial Panel