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			<title><![CDATA[New Publication:  TRIZ Community Story]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=438</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Two long-awaited tweets:http://dld.bz/bxhRw  Calling all authors from the 'old' TRIZ Journal. Help launch new publication, help keep TRIZ sharing spirit alive.  (May 22, 2012)http://dld.bz/bxhRw Successor to TRIZ Journal, call for papers extended to June 8. Great news - great articles! 50% of target! Need more! (May 21, 2012)They ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Ellen Domb]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 12:48:07 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[TRIZ Podcasts:  the resource story]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=435</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Our friends at TRIZIndia have started a podcast series that will be both a tutorial on TRIZ methods and a discussion of how to teach an apply those methods in real situations in real companies.   It is free and easy (no passwords, no registration process.)  Try the ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Methodology]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:01:54 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[39 Parameters in Information Technology]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=427</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Vladimir Petrov is asking for help from our readers for a new project. His TRIZ Journal articles have been very helpful to many people learning TRIZ, so it is a great privilege to use this column to help him get feedback from readers to advance his research. He said, " ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Methodology]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 10:08:20 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Plan for  Face-to-face Learning]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=424</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Some of the most popular articles in this "commentary" column are the reports from TRIZ conferences around the world.   I frequently encourage readers to participate in conferences, because the exchange of information face-to-face is a far richer experience than reading the formal papers from conferences, and we need ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 10:27:49 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Everyday TRIZ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=421</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I had a conversation with a TRIZ/lean/six sigma consultant, who told me with some excitement about his new project, digital book publishing.   I was glad to hear his enthusiasm, but astonished when he told me that the book is ABOUT applications of TRIZ, but that he didn't ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Methodology]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 20:42:42 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Iberoamerican Innovation Congress, Day 3]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=418</link>
			<description><![CDATA[News:  See the Facebook page for Ametriz for pictures and election results.    The next Ametriz congress will be in Queretaro, a city 200 km from Mexico City, that has more than 30 technology-oriented industrial parks and major university centers for TRIZ activity.   There may ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 21:28:35 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Iberoamerican Innovation Congress, Day 2]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=417</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Pictures from Day 1 of the Puebla conference are on the Facebook page for AMETRIZ (the Mexican TRIZ Association.)The 3 conferences in Puebla, Mexico separated in the morning - - my workshop on how to improve TRIZ teaching by leaving the classroom  for the Iberoamerican Innovation Congress attracted 50 ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 22:10:01 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Iberoamerican Innovation Congress, Day 1]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=415</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Puebla, Mexico:  The 5th Iberoamerican Innovation Congress is co-located in Puebla's new conference center and co-produced with two other conventions, Inova 2010 and PYMES (small and medium enterprises).   This will be a personal report on the papers that I heard--for the full program see www.ametriz.com  and ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 23:58:42 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[TRIZ Futures Conf. Day 3]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=412</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Next year:  Dublin, Ireland will be the site for 2011 TRIZ Futures meeting, hosted by the Institute of Technology Tallegh, one of Ireland's 14 Institutes of Technology.  The announcement was made by the ETRIA board and Patrick Coman, professor at the Institute.   I suggest that all ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 08:01:08 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[TRIZ Futures Conf. Day 2 afternoon]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=410</link>
			<description><![CDATA["TRIZ Inside:  When are you going to step out of the TRIZ closet?" was the after-lunch challenge from Hans van Grieken from the CapGemini innovation practice.    He showed a wide variety of successful innovation companies, and asked, "Would they be where they are today if they ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 13:32:08 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[TRIZ Futures Conf. Day 2 Morning]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=409</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Professor Romano Nanni started the program with an illustrated talk ":Anthropo-zoomorphic models and kinematic models in Leonardo da Vinci's mechanizations"  The illustrations were from da Vinci's own notebooks, and they wre both technically fascinating and beautiful as works of art.  Nanni showed us that biomimetics is not a ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 06:42:53 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[TRIZ Futures Conf. Day 1 Afternoon]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=408</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The opening session of the conference combined thanks to the organizers, led by Caterina Rizzi of the University of Bergamo, and a welcome from Stafano Paleari, rector of the university, with welcome and celebration of the 10th anniversary of ETRIA by Tom Vaneker, president of ETRIA.   Tom announced ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 11:52:28 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[TRIZ Futures Conf. Day 1 Morning]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=407</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The first morning of the TRIZ Futures Conference European TRIZ Association  2010 is devoted to tutorials.   Jose Vicente (frequent TRIZ Journal author) is doing a half-day tutorial for beginners, and I am at the session presented by Simon Litwin, nominally on Function-Oriented Search, but started with Simon's ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Conference&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 04:22:27 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[TRIZCON and National Innovation Conference Day 2]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=404</link>
			<description><![CDATA[TRIZCON 2010 and the National Innovation Conference Day 2 opened with brief remarks by sponsor Bart Barthelemy of the Wright Brothers Institute,e challenging all the participants to learn multiple innovation systems to take advantage of the opportunities that surround us.Opening speaker Steve Shapiro "chief innovation evangelist" of Innocentive emphasized that ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 16:00:46 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[TRIZCON and National Innovation Conference part 2]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=403</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The audience got very engaged in Tim Basadur's "Flight to Creativity."  (Yes, son  of Min Masadur, but an innovation contributor on his own, too.)   His "Why teamwork is often uncreative and time consuming" chart started lots of conversations. The equation for meetings isResults =  Content ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 15:58:08 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[TRIZCON and National Innovation Conference part 1]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=402</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Congratulations to the board of the Altshuller Institute for accepting the initiative of Zennovate and the Wright Brothers Institute to co-produce TRIZCON with the National Innovation Conference in Dayton, Ohio, USA - yes, Dayton is the city where the Wright brothers built their airplane in their bicycle shop, so there's ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 09:57:21 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Business Innovation Conference Day 2]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=401</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Jorge Oliveira Teixeira for these notes on Day 2 of the Business Innovation Conference:The day started with keynote speaker Steve Shapiro, Vice President of Innocentive, and Author of "24x7 Innovations."  His challenge to the group is: How to post the right questions when you ask to a ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 07:23:53 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Business Innovation Conference: Day 1]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=400</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Praveen Gupta welcomed the audience from 8 countries and 20 US states to the 3d Business Innovation Conference by announcing that they should plan now for next year, Oct. 11,12,13, 2011. I echo that - - this is a personal report on my experiences, and this is one conference I ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 14:28:04 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Innovation Wars?]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=395</link>
			<description><![CDATA[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 ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Leadership&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 05:35:20 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Open Innovation and TRIZ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=392</link>
			<description><![CDATA[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 ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Conference&nbsp;,&nbsp;Management&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:52:21 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[TRIZ India Summit Day 2]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=389</link>
			<description><![CDATA[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 ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:25:38 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[TRIZ India Summit Day 1]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=388</link>
			<description><![CDATA[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 ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 07:38:29 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[TRIZ in Six Sigma at DoD]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=384</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I'm in the beautiful suburban environment (all the trees are in flower!)  of Washington DC this week for the 2010 DoD Performance Symposium, which is the USA's Department of Defense Six Sigma meeting.  People from all services present their projects(for feedback, for sharing,  and for bragging), attend ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 10:38:41 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Continuous Innovation Enables Breakthrough]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=383</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Rosabeth Moss Kanter (well-known management author and Harvard professor) presents her observations and challenges to CEOs who are embracing innovation during the recovery in the article "Block-by-Blockbuster Innovation" in the May 2010 Harvard Business Review.   See http://hbr.org/2010/05/column-block-by-blockbuster-innovation/ar/1   I agree with many of her points, but I ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Management&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:31:17 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[50 Most Innovative Companies?]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=376</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Technology Review magazine's listing of the world's most innovative companies has just arrived (see www.technologyreview.com/tr50).  For the first time I am not going to rant about lists of "most innovative" that don't have the criteria for selection or the definition of innovation!  You may disagree with the TR ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 10:28:42 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Report: Queens School of Business 1st Annual Innovation Summit]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=373</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I'm at the Queens School of Business First Annual Innovation Summit in Kingston, ON Canada  (Friday-Saturday, March 19-20).  Over 160 students, faculty and alumni are talking, listening, and being creative about the process of innovation, with a few visiting speakers sprinkled in to stimulate the discussions.   ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Buzz/Press&nbsp;,&nbsp;Conference]]>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 14:15:59 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Creativity and Risk-taking Competencies for Innovation]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=370</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Can you teach other people to be innovators?   Or can you teach yourself to be more innovative?   TRIZ practioners learn to generate innovative ideas, but they don't always get their ideas adopted in their organizations.Sarah Miller Caldicott is co-author of Innovate Like Edison and author of ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:51:34 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Innovation at iSixSigma Live! in Miami]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=367</link>
			<description><![CDATA[iSixSigma (a corporate "big sister" publication of Real Innovation and The TRIZ Journal) hosts the iSixSigma Live! symposium in Miami, FL USA this week, with participation from a wide variety of Six Sigma/Lean practioners and learners. Innovation is definitely the theme of the week--Bob King's tutorial "Integrating Innovation with the ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:04:51 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Day 3 Report: First International Conference on Systematic Innovation]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=365</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The conference banquet on Monday night was held in the university's reception hall.   We sat at large round tables and shared many dishes, which enhanced the opportunities for conference delegates to get to know each other.  The banquet was an educational and cultural opportunity which introduced many ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:16:17 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Day 2 Report: First International Conference on Systematic Innovation]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=364</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The tutorial speaker for day 2 at the Systematic Innovation Conference  is Professor Jay Lee, whose primary work is at the U. of Cincinnati in the US and Shanghai Jia Tong University in China.   His talk on "Dominant Design for Product and Service Innovation" introduced the audience ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:02:04 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Report from First International Conference on Systematic Innovation]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=363</link>
			<description><![CDATA[This conference has been planned for over a year, and features many innovations in conference organization, as well as the many papers, tutorials, and discussions of all aspects of systematic innovation.   For example, tutorial sessions were planned for Saturday and Sunday morning, so that people could participate who ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 16:04:30 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Dark Dining, a Trimming Experience]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=358</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Trimming is a TRIZ technique of improving something by simplifying it (and a small joke in English.) Most often in TRIZ it refers to products or systems where the complexity has increased cost or decreased maintainability, serviceability, ease of use, etc.    My husband and I got a ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 12:21:05 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Last Day: 4th Congreso Iberoamericano de Innovacion Tecnologica]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=354</link>
			<description><![CDATA[It is hard to convey the elation and enthusiasm of the audience at this conference, particularly for the student papers.  Some are elegant "classroom" exercises, and some are real projects done for real industry, and some are entrepreneurial ventures where the students are both the engineers and the business ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:50:18 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Day 2 at 4th Congreso Iberoamericano de Innovacion Tecnologica]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=353</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Daniel Palma opened the Day 2 program with a fascinating study of "TRIZ: a competitive advantage in the Mexican labor market."  He and his colleagues looked at the employment experiences of 183 engineering students starting in 2005, and found that those with TRIZ training had more interviews and more ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:26:01 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Report #2 from the 4th Congreso Iberoamericano de Innovacion Tecnologica]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=352</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Authors and other participants are invited to add their comments and corrections using the "comments" function at the end of this column.   Since my name was spelled wrong in the program, I’m sure that there were others as well, and I have relied on the program for basic ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:09:44 -0700</pubDate>
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			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=351</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Congratulations to our colleagues in Mexico and Chile for successfully moving the Iberoamerican Innovation Congress from Mexico (1,2, and 3 were in Puebla, Monterrey and Guadalajara--see reports on all 3 in the TRIZ Journal Commentary column. And I got e-mail last night about an exciting new conference in Israel at ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:46:40 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[European TRIZ Association Conference]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=349</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The European TRIZ Association's TRIZ Futures Conference is exploring new frontiers this week:   geographically, in Timisoara, Romania, and structurally, using a single session for the entire conference.   The conference is at Politehnica University--see http://www.upt.ro/ for some of the history and current information on this engineering and ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:57:17 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Business Innovation Conference 10/7/2009 Afternoon]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=344</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Jerry Smith's presentation on "Intellectual Property &amp; 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 needs multi-dimensional stimulous.  He was ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:46:54 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Business Innovation Conference 10/7/2009 Second Morning Session]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=345</link>
			<description><![CDATA[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 asked for their personal list of ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:51:38 -0700</pubDate>
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			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=343</link>
			<description><![CDATA[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. As a family/entrepreneur-owned company, innovation has been a core value ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:08:01 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Afternoon Business Innovation Conference 10/6/2009]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=342</link>
			<description><![CDATA[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 do projects in many different disciplines with sponsors in ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:09:47 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Business Innovation Conference 10/6/2009 - Second Session]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=341</link>
			<description><![CDATA[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 Homeland Security innovation and on leveraging centers ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:20:17 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Live Report from the Business Innovation Conference 10/6/2009]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=340</link>
			<description><![CDATA[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 sessions that I am participating in--for the full program, see  ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:16:46 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[HBR Understands Resources]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=338</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The October 2009 issue of the Harvard Business Review has a very nice article on what TRIZ calls the use of resources: "The Power of Unwitting Workers." An important part of teaching about the use of resources is explaining that resources are not just things. Energy of any sort, from ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Buzz/Press]]>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:02:44 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[TRIZ Papers Win Awards at ICED]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=332</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ICED – the International Conference on Engineering Design – is the flagship event of the Design Society. The Seventeenth Conference was held last week at Stanford University in the USA. Over 200 papers were presented by a wide range of participants. Cause for celebration for Real Innovation and TRIZ Journal ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:55:54 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[CAI Conference Day 2]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=330</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Day 2 of the Computer-Aided Innovation Conference in Harbin, China, kicked off with the keynote by Prof. Gaetano Cascini, newly elected chairman of the IFIP working group 5.4, president of the European TRIZ Association, and great friend of the TRIZ Journal.  His talk engaged the audience in lessons learned ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 07:43:12 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Computer-Aided Innovation Conference in Harbin, China:  Day 1, Afternoon Session]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=329</link>
			<description><![CDATA[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 both TRIZ methods and CAI applications, in 10 minutes each.  ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:54:14 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Computer-Aided Innovation Conference-Live Report]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=328</link>
			<description><![CDATA[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 were discussed at previous meetings, but the theme ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:58:39 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Japan TRIZ Symposium 2008 Presentations Online]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=318</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Great news! Toru Nakagawa has announced that the Award-winning presentations of the Japan TRIZ Symposium 2008 are now publicly posted in their Official Pages, in the form of PDF slides both in English and in Japanese. http://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/nakagawa/TRIZ/eTRIZ/Because these are slide presentations, not articles, we don’t publish them in The TRIZ ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 13:41:05 -0700</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[The Lean Product and Process Development Exchange is happening in Hilton Head, South Carolina, USA this week. I’m not a dis-interested participant, of course:  my co-author Katherine Radeka is the conference chair (see http://www.triz-journal.com/archives/2009/04/04/ for our article linking TRIZ to LAMDA, one of the basic tools of LPPD) and ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 21:58:48 -0700</pubDate>
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