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			<title><![CDATA[The Droid - No Compromises?]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=355</link>
			<description><![CDATA[How good is the new Droid phone? I can't tell you that - but I CAN tell you that the premise of an ad I found displaying on CNN.com tonight has me intrigued.The ad (shown in the static screen grab here) states plainly "Compromise Deactivated." Being on the search for ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Buzz/Press&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology]]>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:28:04 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Real Innovation Turns 3]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=350</link>
			<description><![CDATA[This weekend Real Innovation turned three! It's been a fun, busy, challenging and exciting three years - and I expect nothing less in the next three years.We've got some new authors joining the Real Innovation family of contributors in the coming weeks, so stay tuned.And to everyone who has contributed ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Buzz/Press]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:00:19 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Nov. 3: Listen to Ellen Domb on Quality Conversations]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=346</link>
			<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, November 3rd, Ellen Domb will be a guest on Steve Wilson's Quality Conversations on BlogTalkRadio. Click and listen at 11 a.m. PT to a discussion on "TRIZ Techniques and Their Practical Application."Ellen is an expert on the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ - an innovation methodology), founding ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Buzz/Press&nbsp;,&nbsp;Conference&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology]]>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:48:21 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[TRIZ and Six Sigma: Ellen Domb on Quality Conversations]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=337</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow (Wednesday, Sept 30), Ellen Domb, founding editor of The TRIZ Journal, will be on Steve Wilson’s show Quality Conversations, hosted by BlogTalkRadio. Steve has interviewed a plethora of quality professionals in the past. Guest apperances include Tom Kubiak, Forrest Breyfogle, Mark Graban, and from Real Innovation’s sister site, iSixSigma, ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Buzz/Press&nbsp;,&nbsp;Conference]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:58:38 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[HP Talks TRIZ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=310</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Phil McKinney, the chief technology officer of Hewlett-Packard's personal systems group, may not be familiar with the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ) - an innovation methodology - but he is talking about a key TRIZ tool in a new interview: the ideal final result. The article quotes McKinney as ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Companies&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:44:19 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Sir Ken Robinson in Seattle]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=301</link>
			<description><![CDATA[At the end of January I had the opportunity to see creativity and innovation expert Sir Ken Robinson speak in Seattle. His new book, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything, talks about how adults (in his experience) don't know what their talents are - they don't know their ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 18:49:10 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[2009 - European Year of Creativity and Innovation]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=300</link>
			<description><![CDATA[If Europe has a dedicated year of creativity and innovation, do other countries/regions need their own? ------------- There’s been a lot of talk – particularly since the global recession became a reality – about whether or not government should be involved in innovation.The European Parliament proclaimed the European Year of ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Buzz/Press&nbsp;,&nbsp;Leadership]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:47:22 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Not-so-live From iSixSigma Live! Summit &amp; Awards]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=295</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Last week I was in Miami for iSixSigma Live! Summit &amp; Awards. (iSixSigma is a sister publication to Real Innovation.) Innovation made its way into the agenda in a few places. (Readers of Real Innovation and The TRIZ Journal are familiar with TRIZ expert Ellen Domb who joined us for ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Conference&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:20:19 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Solve the Economic Crisis]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=283</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The Mexican TRIZ Association (AMETRIZ) is hosting a blog for ideas to solve the global economic crisis: http://blog.ametriz.com/.Put that TRIZ (and other innovation methods and tools) experience to good use and submit your ideas. (And share them here, too!) ]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:28:32 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Booz &amp; Company's Global Innovation 1000]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=280</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Booz &amp; Company announced its new Global Innovation 1000 report today –"Beyond Borders." The report focuses on R&amp;D expenses across the globe as a key innovation indicator. Their top 10 companies include: Toyota, General Motors, Pfizer, Nokia, Johnson &amp; Johnson, Ford, Microsoft, Roche Holding, Samsung and GlaxoSmithKline. A few interesting ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Buzz/Press&nbsp;,&nbsp;Companies]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:33:00 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Nominate Your Company for iSixSigma Live! Award!]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=273</link>
			<description><![CDATA[In 2009, Real Innovation’s sister website, iSixSigma, will host its first annual Summit and Awards in Miami. Although there are some who debate whether innovation and process improvement can work together, we know that as successful as they can be on their own, combined they are unstoppable!If your company also ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 23:55:41 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[PDMA's 32nd Annual International Conference - Day 2]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=270</link>
			<description><![CDATA[My second day in Orlando was about as busy as the first so forgive me if I gloss over some of the details as I try to share as much as I can from my audience view.The first two keynotes focused on architecture. "How Architecture Shapes the Way We Think: ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Conference]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:47:41 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[PDMA's 32nd Annual International Conference - Day 1]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=269</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I’m in Orlando for a few days attending the Product Development and Management Association’s 32nd Annual International Conference. It’s been a busy and fun day; I’ll try to sum it up here! I do have to say at the start that it’s been great to talk to people who know ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:48:34 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[PDMA's 32nd Annual  International Conference]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=255</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The Product Development and Management Association (PDMA) is hosting its 32nd Annual International Conference September 15-17 in Orlando.Why should you attend this event? Keynote speakers from companies including MIT, iRobot and IBM. Guru roundtables: small roundtable sessions with thought-leaders and practitioners; only 8-10 seats are available in each session. Six ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:15:00 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Innovation and Six Sigma]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=244</link>
			<description><![CDATA[A blogger on our sister site, iSixSigma.com, wrote a post Innovation and Six Sigma last week. I think it's a post that applies to our innovation audience as much as it does to their Six Sigma readers.Enjoy!]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Buzz/Press&nbsp;,&nbsp;General]]>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 06:36:47 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Changing Your Focus]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=229</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I don’t get a lot of forwarded emails from friends and family; I’ve trained them to only send me the "best of the best." Today, one video appeared in my inbox that not only intrigued me, but seemed worthy of sharing with the Real Innovation/TRIZ Journal audience.The video lasts about ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Buzz/Press&nbsp;,&nbsp;General]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:52:30 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[iSixSigma Live! Seattle Networking Party]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=228</link>
			<description><![CDATA[If you live near Seattle and would like to hobnob with the area's finest business process improvement practitioners in a casual after-work setting, attend the iSixSigma Live! Social and Networking Party at the Rock Bottom Brewery in Bellevue. (iSixSigma.com is a sister website to RealInnovation.com.)Thursday, May 1, from 6 to ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Buzz/Press]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:31:12 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[TRIZ in ASQ's New Issue]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=206</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The American Society for Quality's (ASQ) magazine, Quality Progress, January issue's cover story, "Conflict and Complexity," looks at the use of problem-solving techniques, including TRIZ, and how they could have been used to prevent the Challenger disaster.You do have to register to have access to the article, but registration is ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Buzz/Press]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:46:57 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Real Innovation Turns 1!]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=179</link>
			<description><![CDATA[It’s official – Real Innovation turns one today. Thank you for your interest/involvement in the site this past year. What’s coming in 2008? More great articles, news, jobs, events, commentaries, discussions and some surprises! I hope that you’ll continue to be connected to the site – whether as a visitor ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Buzz/Press]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:43:49 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Call for Papers - TRIZCON 2008]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=149</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The Altshuller Institute for TRIZ Studies has announced a call for papers for the 10th anniversary of TRIZCON, its annual conference on the topic of TRIZ (The Theory of Inventive Problem Solving). The theme is TRIZ – Your Inspiration for Innovation.Date: 13-15 April 2007Location: Kent State University in Kent, OhioKeep ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 20:54:53 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Six Sigma Drives Innovation]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=140</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Real Innovation's sister site, iSixSigma.com, features a regular cartoon strip - the Cox-Box. Although his comics mainly focus on the trials and tribulations of Six Sigma, his newest strip tackles the question for how Six Sigma drives Innovation.Click this link to read and enjoy! http://blogs.isixsigma.com/archive/six_sigma_drives_innovation.html]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 00:38:41 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Lean Six Sigma Forum 2007 in Malaysia]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=123</link>
			<description><![CDATA[This year’s Lean Six Sigma Forum takes place November 27-28 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.This forum will focus on how Lean and Six Sigma interact and reinforce one another to help better manage business processes. Fourteen world-class businesses will be in attendance, including Reuters, Motorola and Delphi.Plan to attend to:Recognise opportunities ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:15:08 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Innovation From a Six Sigma View]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=108</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Over at the iSixSigma Blogosphere, blogger Robin Barnwell recently wrote about innovation.Robin states that "innovation is a very personal endeavour rather than a group endeavour. What I have seen a number of times is innovation happening like a spark, suddenly someone gets it, they have a startling flash of insight ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Management]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2007 11:47:32 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Process for Innovation Conference]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=98</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Taking place August 21-22 in Chicago, the Process for Innovation conference will include global innovation leaders and practitioners. Companies including Unilever, Motorola, DaimlerChrysler and Procter &amp; Gamble will be represented with sessions including "What Is Innovation? Develop A Clear Understanding Of What Innovation Is And What It Means To Your ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 17:10:40 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Survey Says...]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=92</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Thanks to all Real Innovation readers who took our survey last week! The survey has closed and the results are being tabulated. After a quick (and far from complete) look at your responses, you've provided some good suggestions and directions for future articles and other site content.Stay tuned for some ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:06:17 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Reader Survey Time!]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=82</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Real Innovation began its first reader survey today. Those of you who subscribe to our weekly newsletter have already been sent a notice, but I'd like to encourage ALL Real Innovation visitors to take a few minutes and answer the 12 (short!) questions. It should take you around 7 minutes ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:59:09 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Queueing Theory]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=81</link>
			<description><![CDATA[An article in today’s Wall Street Journal discusses the importance of queueing theory in innovation – in this case keeping product pipelines flowing in order to not be bogged down by ideas. The George Group (consultants) helped Avery Dennison Corp. build slack time into its planning processes and create a ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Buzz/Press&nbsp;,&nbsp;Companies]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2007 18:40:40 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Innovation and Six Sigma]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=76</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Or should it be innovation OR Six Sigma? Innovation with a hint of Six Sigma? Innovation and Six Sigma separate but equal? It’s a topic covered on this site (see below) and, this week, in Business Week’s quarterly "Inside Innovation" issue.Their main article focuses on the balancing act between innovation ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Buzz/Press&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2007 17:46:04 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[TRIZ in Forbes]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=74</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Be sure to check out "Ten People Who Could Change the World" in Forbes. This article talks about world-changing breakthroughs and includes a section discussing TRIZ (The Theory of Inventive Problem Solving) by Genrich Altshuller and his colleagues – and its present-day renaissance.(For those of you who are new to ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2007 15:33:25 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Last Day of Front End of Innovation]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=71</link>
			<description><![CDATA[It was another jam-packed day of innovation ideas today and now that I’m back in my hotel room, I’m ready to share what I listened to today.The morning keynote speaker was Dustan E. McCoy, Chairman &amp; CEO of the Brunswick Corporation. He spoke about sustaining "genuine ingenuity - (their) commitment ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2007 18:48:20 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Day 2 of the Front End of Innovation]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=70</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Dale McIntyre with PDMA welcomed everyone (500-600 of us) to day one of the main Front End of Innovation conference. Conference chairman Peter Koen followed and presented some best practices in the front end and led us through the difference between exploitation (low uncertainty; e.g., Innocentive) and exploration (high uncertainty; ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2007 20:25:53 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Front End of Innovation Conference]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=69</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I'm in Boston this week, attending the Front End of Innovation conference. This afternoon the full conference began with a kickoff keynote by Peter Diamandis, M.D., best known as the founder of the X Prize and who wears a variety of hats including: chairman and CEO of the X Prize ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2007 19:50:26 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[TRIZCON - Last Two Sessions]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=63</link>
			<description><![CDATA[TRIZ Grows TRIZWe’re in the last stretch of the conference now and it’s time for some self-promotion - founding TRIZ Journal editor Ellen Domb is presenting on behalf of The TRIZ Journal (co-editors Michael Slocum and I are in the audience - ready to participate when called upon!), discussing how ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2007 16:32:14 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[TRIZCON - Last Day in Louisville]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=62</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Keynote SpeakerThis morning’s keynote featured Alla Nesterenko (Russian TRIZ specialist) doing a presentation on "OTSM-TRIZ as an Efficient Tool for Implementation of Problem Based Learning." (Nikolai Khomenko kindly translated for the majority of the presentation.) She (and her colleagues) use TRIZ to teach children how to solve problems.Their theory is ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:22:54 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[TRIZCON - Afternoon of Day 2]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=60</link>
			<description><![CDATA[As you expect to happen at any conference, each time I step outside a session room I walk by small groups of attendees clumped together. There are lots of card exchanges and - presumably business deals being planned. For my part, I’m trying to get new papers and authors for ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2007 17:01:02 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[TRIZCON Comments From Ellen Domb]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=61</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Ellen Domb is guesting in my commentary section so all the (live) TRIZCON  comments are in the same place.——————————————————————————————————I’m in "Improve the Wear of Titanium Drum Edges and Simplification of Buffing Process Using Trimming" by Shinhoo Choi from LS Cable (Korea).This may be the star paper of the whole ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:58:13 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[TRIZCON - Super Effects and Predictive Failure Analysis]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=58</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Super EffectsGunter Ladewig of PRIMA Performance Ltd. is leading the talk on Super Effects, The Synergistic Effects of TRIZ. Start by eliminating a system’s contradiction by using the inventive principles or trends of engineering system evolution, you end up with a new product/new features - super effects.A few years ago ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:01:31 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[TRIZ Journal Editors Together!]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=59</link>
			<description><![CDATA[For the first time since The TRIZ Journal became a part of the CTQ Media family, the three editors are together at TRIZCON2007! From left to right, we are Ellen Domb, Michael Slocum and yours truly, Katie Barry.]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:23:47 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[TRIZCON continues - de Bono and TRIZ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=57</link>
			<description><![CDATA[There are five different tracks going today (TRIZCON and GOAL/QPC sessions are open to all attendees.) so I’ll only be highlighting a small portion of today’s learnings.Pat Carlisle, president of The de Bono Group, is leading us through a discussion of the tools of TRIZ (contradiction matrix, separation principles, etc.) ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:51:02 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[TRIZCON Day 2 - Keynote]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=56</link>
			<description><![CDATA[This morning is the keynote speaker for the conference - Professor H. Thomas (Tom) Johnson. (It is a shared keynote with GOAL/QPC, which is also having its conference at the Louisville Marriott.)Tom is incorporating the news that Toyota is today the largest selling car maker in the world into his ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Conference&nbsp;,&nbsp;Leadership&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:10:40 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[More from Day 1 of TRIZCON - ARIZ and Substance Field Analysis]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=55</link>
			<description><![CDATA[This is the 9th year of The Altshuller Institute’s TRIZCON - an annual meeting of TRIZ professionals. There are other large TRIZ conferences hosted worldwide by other TRIZ associations: ETRIA (the European TRIZ Association) and AMETRIZ (the Mexican TRIZ Association) to name but two. ARIZThe third presenter in track 2 ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:40:39 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Day 1 TRIZCON - TRIZ for IP Strategies Development]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=54</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Sergei Ikovenko is the leader of this session, discussing the importance of patents and patent strategies, including:Competitive patent circumvention by trimming: eliminate a component but keep useful functionsCompetitive patent circumvention by history estoppel research: if estoppel exists, the doctrine of equivalence does not apply; if it does exist then use ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:14:09 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[TRIZCON 2007 Begins!]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=53</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I’m in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.A., for the next three days for The Altshuller Institute’s TRIZCON2007. Today  there are three tutorial tracks. Track 1 is TRIZ for Beginners co-presented by The TRIZ Journal’s founding editor Ellen Domb and Joe Miller. Track 3 is a Directed Evolution Workshop with Alla Zusman ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2007 09:49:32 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Uncle Sam Wants You!]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=52</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The United States Department of Commerce is seeking the public’s help for the Measuring Innovation in the 21st Century Economy Advisory Committee. All comments are welcome, but they expect comments to mainly fall under the following four categories:Improvement of the underlying architecture of the U.S. System of National Accounts to ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Buzz/Press&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2007 10:11:00 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[TRIZ on YouTube]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=51</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Now you, too, can learn from the father of TRIZ - YouTube.com has four videos of Russian scientist Genrich Altshuller teaching TRIZ (The Theory of Inventive Problem Solving). For TRIZ newbies - Altshuller (and his colleagues) developed this innovation methodology beginning in 1946. After analyzing thousands upon thousands of patents, ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Leadership]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2007 05:57:03 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Welcome to Our New Commentator!]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=49</link>
			<description><![CDATA[As you may have noticed, Real Innovation added a new commentator to our team last week – Praveen Gupta.A business innovation teacher at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, Praveen brings a fresh perspective to sharing the methods and tools for achieving systematic innovation. In his other life, Praveen is ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2007 19:56:28 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Innovation Survey]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=39</link>
			<description><![CDATA[(March 27, 2007 - The survey is closed. Thank you for your participation!)Some of you may have noticed a new link on our navigation menu to an Innovation survey being conducted by our sister website, iSixSigma. This survey explores what companies are doing to become innovative. The survey is 21 ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:40:00 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Soliciting External Inspiration]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=31</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Dell just launched Ideastorm, a website for stimulating and gathering the brainstormed ideas of its customers – and anyone else interested in furthering Dell’s success.Site visitors can submit ideas, vote on a particular idea’s value and comment on proposed ideas. Since its launch on Friday, February 16th, there are 585 ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Companies&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 19 Feb 2007 15:45:43 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Surveying Innovation Activity]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=29</link>
			<description><![CDATA[InnovationLabs released results of its Permanent Innovation survey this week. Particularly noteworthy responses include:Only 13% of those surveyed felt that their company/organization understands the innovation process. More than half of the respondents felt that "lack of time" was the primary obstacle to their company’s innovation with "resistance to change" a ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Management]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:17:07 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[A TRIZ Podcast]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=27</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The TRIZ Journal’s managing editor Ellen Domb is featured in a podcast interview by Dan Keldsen, emphasizing applications of TRIZ to software development. It’s the third TRIZ interview in Keldsen’s series.Listen to it here to learn more about the history - and future - of TRIZ: http://delphigroup.blogs.com/.../innovation_grow.html.]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Methodology]]>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jan 2007 13:40:11 -0700</pubDate>
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