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			<title><![CDATA[The Real World of Upward Integration in the Health Care Arena]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=436</link>
			<description><![CDATA[In our efforts to control health care costs, we see all kinds of different approaches being used, a few of which have been discussed in this commentary over time. In the June 29 issue of The Wall Street Journal, pB1, we see an article about a major health insurer (Highmark) ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Management&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 13:00:32 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Necessity vs. Scarcity]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=434</link>
			<description><![CDATA[A recent discussion on the Harvard Business Review Blog Network highlights a discussion, started by Teresa Amibile and Steve Kramer promoting necessity, as opposed to scarcity,  as the mother of invention. They discuss the pros and cons of "starving" as an incentive to innovate and examples such "EInk" which ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Leadership&nbsp;,&nbsp;Management&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:29:03 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[IRI Meeting Day 2 Commentary]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=433</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Industrial Research Institute Meeting Report-II  IRI Meeting-I was priveleged to present a workshop on TRIZ problem solving at the annual IRI meeting in Philadelphia this year and was able to attend a number of very interesting presentations from senior executives from materials and service industires. I'd like to report ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Companies&nbsp;,&nbsp;Management&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 16:14:08 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Industrial Research Institute Meeting Report-I]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=432</link>
			<description><![CDATA[IRI Meeting-I was priveleged to present a workshop on TRIZ problem solving at the annual IRI meeting in Philadelphia this year and was able to attend a number of very interesting presentations from senior executives from materials and service industires. I'd like to report on several of these presentations.Joe Miller, ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Conference&nbsp;,&nbsp;Leadership&nbsp;,&nbsp;Management]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 13:59:42 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Information: Use It!]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=431</link>
			<description><![CDATA[In the same week in the Wall Street Journal, we see two interesting and diverse examples of how information can transform a major industry and a household hobby. In hospitals, blood tests are routinely ordered by phsyicians who rarely ask about the cost. They are simply "passed on" to "somebody" ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 13:46:14 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Bugs and Solar Power]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=429</link>
			<description><![CDATA[For those of you who don't read the magazine DISCOVER, I want to pass on to you another great example of problems in parallel universes. Several years ago, work started within the TRIZ community to see if the basic principles of TRIZ could also be identified as being used in ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 12:35:40 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[People and Dreams]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=428</link>
			<description><![CDATA[We hear all the time about how few new ideas actually wind up as commercially successful (I.e. make money) products or services and we all wish the percentage is higher. But when failure does occur, it's important that we learn from it. There's a tendency to bury problems so that ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Leadership&nbsp;,&nbsp;Management&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 16:45:45 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Wyoming is Cool!]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=425</link>
			<description><![CDATA[What's the first thing you think of when you think of the state of Wyoming? Yellowstone Park? Ranches and cattle? Coal mining? Natural gas? Open space? Mountains? Did you thnk COLD? It may not be the coldest place in the US, but parts of it are close to the coldest ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Management&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 11:21:50 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Imaging]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=423</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Understanding and "seeing" things we can't see is a holy grail in a number of technical areas. Vibration tells us a lot about what might be going on inside a piece of mechanical equipment. X-Rays tell us about our body structure. MRI's are used to image organs, soft tissues, and ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 13:34:25 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Who Are You?]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=422</link>
			<description><![CDATA[In recent discussions about an upcoming workshop for the Management Division of AIChE in Minneapolis, I got into a discussion about networking and the use of psychological assessment tools in assisting employees with job searches and transitions. I guess I am a bit old fashioned as I believe that enjoying ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Leadership&nbsp;,&nbsp;Management]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 05:59:28 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Pumps and Pipes and Hearts]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=419</link>
			<description><![CDATA["The history of medical innovation is one of inspiration, unexpected insights, and the sharing of ideas across disciplines"---Methodist/DeBakey Heart and Vascular Center ad, back cover of Continental Airlines magazine, Nov 2010It's amazing what you find in airline magazines. During a recent trip to present a workshop at the Mexican TRIZ ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 08:57:49 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Coffee Cups, Toilet Paper Cores, Video Stores, UV Protection, and Magic Fiddles]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=414</link>
			<description><![CDATA[What do all these topics have in common? They are all examples of new products that eliminate some other product or part of a system and still accomplish most or all of the original intent but with greater simplicity, lower cost, and less waste. In the TRIZ world, we call ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 13:58:16 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Combine and Integrate!]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=406</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I have just returned from the annual PDMA conference in where I was also an official blogger and you can my commentary at the PDMA website, http://www.pdma.orgI had the pleasure of listening to and commenting upon many interesting presentations relating to new product innovations that ranged from food and cosmetics ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Conference&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 08:02:50 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[How Many Energy Changes Do You Make?]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=398</link>
			<description><![CDATA[There are some fundamental laws of science and engineering that are never violated. One of these says that every time you change energy from one form to another, you lose. The most efficient use of energy is to take energy into a system or product, use its value for something ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Management&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 26 Sep 2010 16:00:37 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[They Could Have Owned It!]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=397</link>
			<description><![CDATA[We have all watched as the "book" industry has restructured itself. Two key things are in the news. Blockbuster has gone into "chapter 11" and is closing a large fraction of its stores. Just recently it was announced that books downloaded on to electronic book readers outsold hard cover books. ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Sun, 26 Sep 2010 15:28:23 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Pressure in Your Tires]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=394</link>
			<description><![CDATA[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 ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 15:08:05 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Simplifying Smartly]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=393</link>
			<description><![CDATA[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 ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 07:55:23 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Oil and Chlorine DO Mix!]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=390</link>
			<description><![CDATA["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 ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Management&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 07:17:24 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[World Future Society Meeting Report]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=387</link>
			<description><![CDATA[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. ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Conference&nbsp;,&nbsp;Management&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:41:51 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Making Copies II]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=386</link>
			<description><![CDATA[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 ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:54:11 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[&quot;The Invention of Air&quot;]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=385</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Last month we discussed resource utilization levels in food production and made some observations regarding inevitable trends. In that case we were talking about obvious resources. What about unobvious ones? We often say in our workshops that some of the most clever TRIZ problem solving we see is the identification ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 18:33:50 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Water and Innovation]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=382</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Do any of you use water in your processes? Why? How much? Most likely it's to cool something or to dilute something. Clean water is becoming more precious all the time as a Florida resident such as myself can testify. Though we are surrounded by "water", it's salty seawater and ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Leadership&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 14:46:13 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Front End of Innovation Day 3]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=381</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Theme for the Day: Moving Beyond the Core: New Business Model Creation, Keynote: Vijay Govindarajan, Professor of International Business and Founding Director of the Tuck Center for Global Leadership, gave a fascinating presentation highlighting the ignorance of many in the West about global markets and totally unique concepts for new ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Conference&nbsp;,&nbsp;Leadership]]>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 21:29:35 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Front End of Innovation Conference 2010 Day 2]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=380</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Keynnote: "Innovation is Successful Only When it is "On Code" (Clotaire Rapaille, Archetypes Discoveries Worldwide and Author: The Culture Code: An Ingenious Way to Understand Why People Around the World Live and Buy as They DoClotaire made an extremely interesting presentation on the internal "coding" of our thinking and brains, ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Companies&nbsp;,&nbsp;Conference&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 13:30:23 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Front End of Innovation Conference Report Day 1]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=379</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I am attending the Front End of Innovation conference in Boston and would like to share highlights with RealInnovation readers. This conference was started many years ago by Joyce Wycoff, a creativity consultant in California, primarily for her clients. It was originally called the Fuzzy Front End conference and blossomed ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 22:27:14 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Getting to Know You....]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=378</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Anyone old enough to remember that song? "Getting to Know You, Getting to Know All About You..." Well, I am still in a state of amazement and it took 4 days of contemplation to write a column after seeing the article, "Can GE Still Manage?" (Business Week, 4/25/2010, p27-32). As ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:58:53 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Recipe for Creativity]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=377</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Those of you who are not chemists or chemical engineers probably don't read Chemical and Engineering News which, once a year, reprints the acceptance speech from the recipient of the American Chemical Society's most prestigious award, the Priestley Medal. Dr. Richard N. Zare was recognized for his work in laser ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:11:18 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Look Up and Down for Innovation!]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=372</link>
			<description><![CDATA[There is a fundamental law of product and business innovation that says that systems integrate into their super-systems over time. What does this mean? Let's take an example. You are in the business of making paint roller pans. You have worked hard over the years to add stability to these ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:31:30 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Attitude vs. Tools]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=368</link>
			<description><![CDATA[As an engineer and someone involved with TRIZ and innovation audits of organizations, I frequently find myself in discussions and conflicts with more right brained creativity individuals. I will define right brained as those who basically believe that in the fields of creativity and innovation it is quantity that is ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:12:47 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Information: A Key Resource]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=366</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Many of you may have seen Google's earnings report announced on Friday, January 22. In the 4th quarter of 2009, their sales (just one quarter!) were $6.7 BILLION and profits of $2 BILLION. This was 5 times the profit of the previous quarter. Let's think about this a second. How ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:10:36 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Innovation in the New Year]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=361</link>
			<description><![CDATA[We head into 2010 with uncertainty. Things look like they may be turning up a little, but many people are still cautious, considering all the financial turbulence. In times like this, it's always best to fall back on things and principles we know will stand the test of time. Let's ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:15:06 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Report on ISPIM Meeting]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=357</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ISPIM (International Society of Professional Innovation Management) Meeting, New York, NY Dec 7-9, 2009: "Stimulating Recovery: The Role of Innovation Management"ISPIM (http://www.ispim.org) is primarily a European based innovation organization with a combination of academics, consultants, and industrial practitioners. They hold two meetings a year and occasionally one of these is ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Jack Hipple]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Conference]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:02:43 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Make Copies!]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=356</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Why do we go to movies? Because for less than $10, we can see famous movie stars that we could never afford to pay to come to our house for a private showing. Why do we use copier machines? Because we could never afford the time or money to hand ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Leadership&nbsp;,&nbsp;Management]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:24:16 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Red Zone]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=339</link>
			<description><![CDATA[What is the red zone? In American football over the past ten years it has come to mean the last 20 yards to go before a touchdown--the 20 yard line of the opposing team. Why is this important? Well, the defense gets a little more stingy and there’s less ground ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Management&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 13:54:49 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Make Information Come to You!]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=333</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Accurate, timely, and low cost information can be a critical component of innovation and market research. Think about the following things that all of you have experienced or seen in the past few years. First "I Report" on CNN News. People all over the country are empowered, with no money ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Management&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:20:06 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Keep the Antenna Out!]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=327</link>
			<description><![CDATA[In a column two weeks ago, I made some serious suggestions regarding thinking about innovative discoveries and their ultimate outcome prior to investing tons of money. Let’s take the other tack to see both sides of innovation and discoveries.We can’t afford to chase every idea that comes along and that’s ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Leadership&nbsp;,&nbsp;Management&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:12:59 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Putting the NO in InNOvation]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=326</link>
			<description><![CDATA[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 way! The spokesperson puts the word innovation up on a flip ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Management&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:12:59 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[What If This Works?]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=322</link>
			<description><![CDATA[In my days as Discovery Research Director at Dow Chemical, I was given a large chunk of money reserved for research and new product projects unrelated to the current business areas. This money was taken from the line R&amp;D budgets of the existing organizations in an attempt to get the ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Management&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 20:59:33 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[TARP and Stress Tests]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=317</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Reading The Wall Street Journal and listening to the business news the last few days makes me think we are in a cardiology unit. I have never heard the expression "stress test" used in a business context before, let alone so many times in a few days.But let’s think about ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Management&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:40:30 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Innovation in a Zero Capital World: Ask and Trim!]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=309</link>
			<description><![CDATA[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 people resources you have, but a reminder about a powerful, but ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:28:38 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Innovation in Hard Times]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=304</link>
			<description><![CDATA[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 Chemical and Engineering News on February 2, Melody Voith summarized the ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Leadership&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:58:16 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The 4400]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=292</link>
			<description><![CDATA[In the past two weeks or so, there has been a torrent of layoffs, plant closings, and restructurings unknown in recent times. Two major layoffs that caught my eye with my chemical industry background, were those of Dow Chemical (5000) and Air Products (1500). These numbers are in the neighborhood ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:50:00 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Problem 1 vs. Problem 2]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=290</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I recently attended a re-certification course in the Kirton KAI™ assessment tool. This is one of many psychological assessment tools designed to measure "style" in a person’s behavior or approach to a situation. This one focuses specifically on an individual’s problem solving style as opposed to social style (www.kaicentre.com for ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Management&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:02:22 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Vibrating Mascara]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=288</link>
			<description><![CDATA[In a recent Sunday papers around the world, a large full page, color (not cheap!) advertisement was shown displaying a new mascara brush from Lancome: http://www.lancome-usa.com/makeup/mascara/oscillation.aspxWhen you watch the video at this site, you will hear things like: "Pulls lashes apart" "Coats all sides" "Vibrates at 7000 cycles per minute" ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:51:21 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Tic-Tac-Toe Approach to Strategic Planning]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=281</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I’d like to share with you a very simple, but powerful strategic analysis tool that I’ll just describe as the "tic-tac-toe" approach to strategic analysis. It comes from my experience with TRIZ, but it’s a much broader thinking tool and can greatly support your efforts to think strategically about innovation ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:20:08 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[What's Your Sign (Of Innovation)?]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=263</link>
			<description><![CDATA[How many of you have seen one of Jeff Foxworthy’s comedy monologues? You know one of his favorite spots is his description of a certain behavior (usually not all the flattering, but funny), and then saying, "Here’s your sign!", meaning that everyone then knows who you "are". His version of ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 16:42:20 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[What Business Are You In?]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=254</link>
			<description><![CDATA[With my activities in TRIZ, I am constantly thinking about function rather than jargon or business description. What function does my product allow someone to do? Not what do I sell them or what do they need. The function of the automobile is to move someone from place A to ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:46:10 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Perspective]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=252</link>
			<description><![CDATA[$140 a Barrel –By the time you read this, it may be higher. If you’re in Europe, the price has also gone up, but no where near as much. Why? Because we currently price oil in dollars and with the  huge US budget deficit and growing inflation, our currency ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:57:45 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Bad News Is Good!]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=249</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Using Negatives as Positives for Innovation Strategy ---Frequently, we get caught up in “reacting” to what we believe is bad news or negative trends. We spend huge sums of money and divert resources from other activities to head off what we consider to be a disaster. When this has to ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:31:15 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Dynamism in Innovation]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=238</link>
			<description><![CDATA[What’s dynamism? It’s the changing of a product, system, or service in response to "something" or a pro-active management of a product, service, or organization in response to both anticipated or unanticipated conditions. In my opinion, it is one of the most powerful and least utilized innovation thinking tools. First ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:23:44 -0700</pubDate>
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