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			<title><![CDATA[S.T.E.M. Plus]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=430</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Leaders in European Union, India, China, USA and many other countries have been asking for more STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) graduates in order to drive more innovation. We also know that there are unemployed STEM professionals. Simply training more STEM professionals may add to the pool of unemployed ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Praveen Gupta]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 17:10:17 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[e-Waste... Electronics and Sustainability Symposium]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=426</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Sustainable Electronics Initiative (SEI), a consortium dedicated to the development and implementation of a more sustainable system for designing, producing, remanufacturing, and recycling electronic devices at Illinois Sustainable Technology Center, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign is hosting the second annual symposium. John Pflueger, Principal Environmental Strategist at Dell, was the keynote ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 22:08:07 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Teaching Innovation - Part III]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=413</link>
			<description><![CDATA[There is a global desire to exploit innovation for gaining competitive advantage, and a significant effort to deploy innovation without knowing how to. Most business colleges are still pursuing entrepreneurship programs without much education in innovation. Recognition of need to teach innovation is becoming apparent but slowly. I am surprised ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 16:39:43 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Business Innoation Confernce Day 3 by John Forsberg]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=405</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The morning Keynote session was scheduled for 8:30, and I walked in at 8:15 and met the planned speaker, Steve Shapiro.  Steve immediately was friendly and quickly talked about his three weeks on the road, the components of the Human Brain, how kidsâ&#8364;™ can freely play until we adults ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Conference]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2010 19:17:25 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Innovation for Creating Jobs]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=375</link>
			<description><![CDATA[There will always be a need for creating jobs. Governments around the world are looking into ways for creating jobs. President Barack Obama held a Jobs Forum like meeting at White House in December, 2009. I read that $5000 per new hire was offered to corporations. It sounds like that ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Leadership]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 07:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Business Innovation Maturity Model (BIMM)]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=374</link>
			<description><![CDATA[After years of talking about innovation there is insufficient progress in deploying innovation in organizations around the world. There are tools and methods to gain new skills but a framework needed for deploying innovation in an organization is still missed. Learning from standardization practices, I feel we must develop a ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Methodology]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:23:34 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Teaching Innovation - Part II]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=360</link>
			<description><![CDATA[About two years ago, I wrote a commentary on teaching innovation as it has been my passion to pursue, source of inspiration, and reason to develop teachable innovation methods. About the same time I also started teaching Business Innovation. Students have loved learning about innovation.Among all the commentaries I have ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 10:00:25 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[My Innovation Story of 2009]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=359</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I took some time off writing commentaries for RealInnovation about a year ago. Reflecting over last 12 months for innovation activities, I have seen great interest in innovation all over the world. People are talking about innovation at all levels. Students, teachers, schools, colleges, businesses, professionals, and even national leaders, ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:22:59 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Changing Corporate Culture for Innovation]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=272</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Current discussion about innovation has been dominated by the need to create a culture for institutionalizing innovation.I posed the question “What does culture for innovation entail?” to my students representing cultures of France, China, Korea, Azerbaijan, USA, India, Spain and Romania. (I would like to hear from you about culture ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Leadership]]>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:56:46 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[A Dangerous Trend in R&amp;D]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=271</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Sometime ago, I read that a new technology officer of a leading computer manufacturing company has discontinued R&amp;D projects that go beyond 2-3 years. The top 20 or so projects were retained for generating short term revenue. Leadership in other companies have adopted the similar strategy to productize R&amp;D. To ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 08:54:54 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Hidden Innovator]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=251</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Recently, I came across the Invisible Employee book written by Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton. I read some statistics such as 25% of employees being driven to tears and 50% being verbally abused. My experience has taught that almost 100% feel under appreciated for their work, and their innovative ideas ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Management]]>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 10:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Seven Killers of Innovation]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=250</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Corporate leadership understands innovation is important for success, employees understand how to innovate, and innovation occurs in every business. However, the extent and rate of innovation have been insufficient. I believe that following seven killers innovation suppress our innovation instincts:1. Harmful Vocabulary – Words such as ‘used to, ‘hate it, ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Methodology]]>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 02:18:30 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Innovation in Small Businesses]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=221</link>
			<description><![CDATA[How can a small business benefit from innovation? Can small business afford innovation? How can innovation help small business grow revenue, and how quickly? These are some of the most frequently asked questions about innovation.I believe most of the innovation talk is about large businesses benefitting innovation, ignoring the fact ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[An Innoholic]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=220</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I met Wayne Rothschild about three years ago at a Kellogg Innovation Network meeting. We both were consultants and were looking around for contacts. We connected. He told me had 55 patents and I had just completed development of innovation framework. I wanted to network with him to validate my ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 23:21:43 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Creative Thinking]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=212</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Recently, I asked a group of students to raise their hands if they thought they were creative. I saw about 20% raising their hands that they were creative. To validate my understanding I asked them to write at least one creative idea. Again, I discovered that about 20% of them ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Innovators in My Neighborhood]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=211</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Writing for realinnovation.com makes me look around for new ideas to write about. It occurred to me that my neighbor, who a few years ago showed me a charger for cell phone was also working on a spa system for last two years, made me an offer to take the ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Companies]]>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 20:33:48 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Global Innovation - Part II]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=200</link>
			<description><![CDATA[While going to India for participating in the convocation events at IIT, Chicago’s Bangalore campus, I was supposed to travel from Chicago to Newark, and then catch the international flight to Delhi. Due to the size and cost associated with the international flights they are rarely canceled. Same, however, is ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Buzz/Press]]>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2008 10:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Global Innovation - Part I]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=199</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Last month I had an opportunity to speak on innovation at the IIT Chicago’s Bangalore campus. It is amazing to see talk and walk going on in this area there. Then I visited Prakash Kappoth, Senior Manager – Knowledge Management, whom I met at RealInnovation and Raj Datta, Chief Knowledge ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Companies]]>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2008 10:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Tens of Innovation]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=189</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Learning innovation is critical for me in order to teach innovation. I read about other people’s work, and try to expand my understanding of innovation. Recent trend in offering recipes of innovations sound confounding to me. For example, some of the best selling innovation books and methodologies include the magic ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Methodology]]>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 01:00:16 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Innovative Companies - Most, Best, or Managed]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=188</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The list of Most Innovative companies in Business Week interests me a lot. I do not know what to do with the list. What can one learn from the companies listed on the list? They all look good companies, so are many more companies off the list. I recognize the ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Buzz/Press]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 18:02:11 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[National Innovation Initiative]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=178</link>
			<description><![CDATA[In 2005 US Congress passed the innovation act with the intent of increasing research investment, increasing science and technology talent, and developing an innovation infrastructure. The legislation required to establish the President’s Council on Innovation for promoting innovation in the public and private sectors. The council is supposed to develop ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Intellectual Property Protection]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=177</link>
			<description><![CDATA[In recent discussions about intellectual property it has been reiterated that only about 5% of patents are of any significant value, and the rate of success for R&amp;D driven innovation is also about 4 - 5%. So, I am wondering if it is worth protecting every idea or innovation. I ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Management]]>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2007 14:56:29 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Creativity and Innovation Management Conference]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=160</link>
			<description><![CDATA[DePaul University’s Center for Creativity and Innovation held its first annual conference on October 26, 2007. The conference had Matthew Wise, CEO of Q Interactive, Tom Stat, Associate Partner at IDEO, and many other speakers on topics ranging from harnessing innovation, excellence in idea management, managing innovation, innovation in healthcare, ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Buzz/Press]]>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2007 18:25:22 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Chicago Innovation Award]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=158</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Chicago is celebrating its first Innovation Week by holding variety of innovation activies. I had the opportunity to attend Chicago Innovation Award (CIA) celebrations. The Award was created six years ago by Dan Miller, Business Editor of Chicago Sun Times, and Tom Kuczmarski of Kuczmarski &amp; Associates. According to the ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:41:52 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Leadership for Innovation]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=151</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Everyone is talking about innovation in the corporate world. Books, conferences, courses, and presentations abound. Corporate executives are surveyed, and results publicized. Corporations are becoming more innovative just by availability of more information, and networked environment in the flat world. The question remains how does a CEO make his or ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 10:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Success through Innovation Conference - Part II]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=153</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Success Through Innovation: “Profitability and Competitivenessin the European and World Markets” - The EIPC Management Council Meeting Copenhagen, Denmark, Oct. 10, 2007 (www.eipc.org, www.ipc.org)After lunch, Konrad Wundt, General Manager of Multiple International Europa talked about the European PCS industry and its impact on the European EMS industry. Growth rate in ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2007 10:15:47 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Success Through Innovation Conference – Part I]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=152</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Success through Innovation: “Profitability and Competitivenessin the European and World Markets” - The EIPC Management Council Meeting Copenhagen, Denmark, Oct. 10, 2007 (www.eipc.org and www.ipc.org)Electronics industry has been the driver for dramatic progress for over last twenty years. Remembering about Motorola envisioning year 2000 in 1985, rate of change in ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2007 10:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Scheduled Innovation]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=150</link>
			<description><![CDATA[In a recent discussion at an innovation conference, someone made a point that scheduled innovation is a contradiction. Innovation is considered to be unpredictable due to uncertain amount of time involved, or the product development cycle. We have seen two ways in which innovative products are introduced. One offers a ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 10:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Microsoft National Innovation Forum - Part IV: The Album and Acknowledgements]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=146</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Finally, thanks to everyone at the forum, and special thanks to Julie Gatzkiewicz for her superb photography!Thanks to Simon, Joe, Don, and Shelley Stern Grach for inviting me to the Microsoft National Innovation Forum, and for granting permission to post notes here. Thanks to Katie Barry for her help with ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Sat, 29 Sep 2007 08:56:04 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Microsoft National Innovation Forum - Part III: Innovation Practices]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=145</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Welcome to Day 2. First presentation was titled Customer Needs Management in PLM given by Ed Miller, President of CIM Data. He asked if anyone knew what CIM stood for. He had to answer it, Computer Integrated Manufacturing. He mentioned that innovation is going through its evolution similar to other ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2007 19:48:03 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Microsoft National Innovation Forum - Part II: MS Solutions]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=144</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Don Richardson gave a presentation about innovation management.  He highlighted business challenges as follows:New competitionIntensely increasing price and cost pressureEver shrinking product lifecyclesIncreasing integration of the worlds economiesMajor technology shiftsDon’s research shows that many CEOs are primarily driving innovation, and most companies planned to increase their spending on innovation. ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:13:20 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Microsoft National Innovation Forum - Part I: The Context]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=143</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Last week I had a great opportunity to participate in an innovation forum organized by Microsoft in Redmond, WA. Participants included Microsoft’s customers, employees, and partners including affiliates, consultants, professors, and experts. Objective of the forum was to seek input from attendees, share Microsoft’s practices of innovation, and showcase some ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:58:33 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Innovation Tours]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=141</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The Scanlon Leadership Network, with 21 member companies, is committed to learning all they can about Innovation.  The members of the Network have always been innovative in their products, process and people systems but they decided to formally study innovation during and Executive Retreat in 2003.  Innovation came ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Praveen Gupta]]></author>
			
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			<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:40:25 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Vintage Drucker on Innovation]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=133</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Going through my collection of books on innovation, I came across Peter Drucker’s book Innovation and Entrepreneurship. This book was first published in 1986! He was a visionary. It is interesting how he had distinguished the two disciplines. Most business colleges still have more courses on entrepreneurship than on innovation. ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Process for Innovation]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=132</link>
			<description><![CDATA[About two weeks ago, I attended the Process of Innovation conference in Chicago, organized by IQPC. Among so many conferences on innovation, this was the first attempt to learn more about the process of innovation. There were some  lessons to be learned from excellent presentations at the conference.The first ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 11:44:57 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Theories of Innovation]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=112</link>
			<description><![CDATA[There has been much discussion lately about various innovation methodologies. As innovation is becoming an imperative for any for-profit organization, there is confusion about how to go about innovating. Many companies have been innovating for decades, so there must be identifiable methodologies in place. Have these companies been innovating efficiently ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Methodology]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2007 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Creativity@Work]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=111</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I am always surprised at people being amazed of innovation and ignorant of creativity in the work place. Innovation is a buzzword in the business world today, while creativity is perceived to be of some nuisance. It is perceived that innovation has something to do with business, while creativity is ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2007 15:34:22 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Least Innovative Companies]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=97</link>
			<description><![CDATA[To solve a problem sometimes we look into successes and failures, do the component search and look for the root cause. While analyzing the Most Innovative Companies of BusinessWeek 2007 a thought came about looking into Least Innovative Companies. Can we find them?I am wondering if there are companies that ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Buzz/Press]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 12:04:07 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Most Innovative Companies]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=96</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Innovation is looking more and more like a ‘funny’ thing to do, instead of experiencing Eureka moments. Hearing someone’s new idea leads to the feeling of ‘WOW” that is funny! Innovation itself is appearing to be funnier because we do not understand enough to predict a successful innovation.  Searching ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2007 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Innovation - Why?]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=78</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Why Innovation?Recent buzz has started the launching of a new fad, innovation. Is it really new? Innovation has been with mankind forever, so what is new about it now? Why suddenly are we asking for innovation? In one meeting about innovation a business leader asked, “Why do we want to ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2007 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Improvement and Innovation]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=77</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Improvement and InnovationRecent BusinessWeek articles have been singing obituaries of Six Sigma, and giving birth to innovation. According to a recent article, the two could not co-exist because Six Sigma has been used for efficiency, and innovation for creativity. Interestingly, we have seen many powerful tools being misapplied over years ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2007 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Measures of Innovation]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=68</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Why everyone wants to measure innovation without understanding the innovation process and its elements. I have seen, similar expectation for other performance measurements when we first want to get handle on some measures, fit some statistics to the numbers, and then try to do something unrelated. The challenge is due ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2007 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Education in Innovation]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=67</link>
			<description><![CDATA[In my earlier commentary, I was searching for courses on the process of innovation. While it is difficult to find courses on teaching the process of innovation, however, universities such as Harvard, University of Chicago, and Kellogg School of Management appear to have a major commitment to entrepreneurship and innovation. ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Methodology]]>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2007 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Economic Growth Through Innovation]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=48</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Some time ago, I was discussing innovation with a friend. We were discussing job losses in various industries, and how the new jobs with lower pay are being created in service operations. In order for businesses to create better paying jobs, new industries have to be created through innovation. My ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Management]]>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 10:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Teaching Innovation]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=47</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Innovation is not a new phenomenon. People know about how to innovate but to be able to do it meaningfully for society is a different story. Rate of change in our society, business products, services and even consumer demand for personalized solutions has created a need for a lot more ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Methodology]]>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2007 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[About Commentator: Praveen Gupta]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=90</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Praveen Gupta has been differentiating his work throughout his career. He has solved many problems over 25 years at small to large organizations. Praveen has developed a Six Sigma Business Scorecard for measuring corporate performance, the 4P (Prepare, Perform, Perfect, Progress) model for achieving process excellence, the Corporate Sigma for ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[About Commentators]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 2007 03:59:22 -0700</pubDate>
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