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Innovation Wars?
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Stop the Innovation Wars is the attention-getting title of this month's Harvard Business Review attempt at controversy by Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble, both on the faculty at Dartmouth, and co-authors of a new book on innovation, due out in November. (See www.hbr.org July-Aug. 2010) What ...
08/29/2010 06:35 AM
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The Pressure in Your Tires
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When was the last time you put air in your tires? Do you have a relatively new car that has an automatic warming light to tell you that tire pressure is low? What did you do? Probably pulled into a gas station, maybe put a quarter or two in the ...
08/28/2010 04:08 PM
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Simplifying Smartly
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Have you paid attention to some of the new product developments lately and looked for some over-riding trends? Think about Dyson, the i-Phone, and the new electronic book readers from Borders and Barnes and Noble as examples. Dyson is selling vacuum cleaners without bags and fans without blades. Both of ...
08/26/2010 08:55 AM
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Open Innovation and TRIZ
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Two times in two weeks on two continents then twice more by e-mail people asked about TRIZ and open innovation. Sounds like a trend? I honestly had not given it much thought, and before my current exposure I would have said that my impression of open innovation ...
08/19/2010 01:52 PM
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Observations on the TRIZ Developers Summit 2010
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Kalevi Rantanen reports from the TRIZ Developers Summit 2010 ------------------Highlights * A non-governmental organization, the TRIZ Developers Summit conducted the conference in Saint Petersburg, July 26-27, 2010.* Approximately 90 experts from 12 countries participated in the summit.* First day topics included "TRIZ-based Forecasting Methods." * Second day topics included six ...
08/09/2010 06:03 PM
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Oil and Chlorine DO Mix!
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"Oil Companies to Create Industry Response System for Deep-Water Oil Spills"What's so special about this announcement? It says that, after decades of off shore oil drilling, the industry is going to collaborate on safety matters. Do you know what the largest chemical shipped by volume in the world is? CHLORINE--a ...
08/09/2010 08:17 AM
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TRIZ India Summit Day 2
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Ido Lapidot from Intel in Israel opened his talk on TRIZ in large companies with the Tetris project's video on the history of TRIZ, and then a charming demonstration of his personal history using S-curves. Since he started with the announcement that the benefit of TRIZ to Intel ...
07/30/2010 10:25 AM
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TRIZ India Summit Day 1
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Ninety people enjoyed the beautiful (cool in July!) weather in Bangalore at the opening of TRIZIN, the TRIZ India Summit 2010. Navneet Bhushan, founder of Crafitti Consulting and organizer of the conference, welcomed us with the challenge to develop a country-wide initiative to "define the new world that ...
07/29/2010 08:38 AM
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World Future Society Meeting Report
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The annual meeting of the World Future Society was held in Boston this past week and I attended to teach a short TRIZ Futures Course and listen to a few speakers address future issues of concern. It was interesting that 1/2 of the TRIZ Futures class were from the military. ...
07/12/2010 05:41 PM
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Making Copies II
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How many of you are old enough to remember some of the original cast episodes of Saturday Night Live? There have been several famous ones including the mimicing of Julia Child's cooking show and bleeding all over the food she was cutting, as well as hundreds of spoofs of politicians ...
06/29/2010 02:54 PM
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