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			<title><![CDATA[New Publication:  TRIZ Community Story]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=438</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Two long-awaited tweets:http://dld.bz/bxhRw  Calling all authors from the 'old' TRIZ Journal. Help launch new publication, help keep TRIZ sharing spirit alive.  (May 22, 2012)http://dld.bz/bxhRw Successor to TRIZ Journal, call for papers extended to June 8. Great news - great articles! 50% of target! Need more! (May 21, 2012)They ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Ellen Domb]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 12:48:07 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[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[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>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Jack Hipple]]></author>
			
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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[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>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Praveen Gupta]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 22:08:07 -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>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Jack Hipple]]></author>
			
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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>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Jack Hipple]]></author>
			
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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[Innovation is Like Shooting a Hole-In-One]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=420</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Three days to go to shoot my second hole-in-one during the same year! It's possible. I know. Two golfers at my golf club each shot two hole-in-ones this year.I've been surprised at the innovation lessons learned from this thrilling experience. Let me share three with you. "Lynda, you must be ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Lynda Curtin]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Leadership]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 11:49:27 -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>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Jack Hipple]]></author>
			
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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>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Jack Hipple]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 13:58:16 -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>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Praveen Gupta]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 16:39:43 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[TRIZ Futures Conf. Day 1 Afternoon]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=408</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The opening session of the conference combined thanks to the organizers, led by Caterina Rizzi of the University of Bergamo, and a welcome from Stafano Paleari, rector of the university, with welcome and celebration of the 10th anniversary of ETRIA by Tom Vaneker, president of ETRIA.   Tom announced ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Ellen Domb]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 11:52:28 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Search Party is Over for Google? TRIZ Analysis]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=399</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I posted a commentary on search engine and IFR of a search engine here a while back; as search engine has found a place in my TRIZ examples, I thought of giving a shot to this news article (Google: The party is over)  appeared in Fortune recently through another ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Prakasan Kappoth]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Buzz/Press&nbsp;,&nbsp;Companies&nbsp;,&nbsp;General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 13:06:04 -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>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Jack Hipple]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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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>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Jack Hipple]]></author>
			
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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[&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>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Jack Hipple]]></author>
			
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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[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>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Jack Hipple]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Leadership&nbsp;,&nbsp;Management]]>
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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>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Jack Hipple]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:11:18 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Light Weight Cycle Vs Heavy Weight Cycles]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=369</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I decided to be fit this year and reduce my personal carbon footprint by introducing a bicycle in my daily life. I spent more money (considering this will be a worthy, onetime investment) than I would spend in a high class fitness center on this. This one is an imported ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Prakasan Kappoth]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:23:54 -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>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Praveen Gupta]]></author>
			
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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[Dark Dining, a Trimming Experience]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=358</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Trimming is a TRIZ technique of improving something by simplifying it (and a small joke in English.) Most often in TRIZ it refers to products or systems where the complexity has increased cost or decreased maintainability, serviceability, ease of use, etc.    My husband and I got a ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Ellen Domb]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 12:21:05 -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>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Jack Hipple]]></author>
			
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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[European TRIZ Association Conference]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=349</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The European TRIZ Association's TRIZ Futures Conference is exploring new frontiers this week:   geographically, in Timisoara, Romania, and structurally, using a single session for the entire conference.   The conference is at Politehnica University--see http://www.upt.ro/ for some of the history and current information on this engineering and ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Ellen Domb]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:57:17 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[What Job Is Twitter Helping Customers To Do?]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=325</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Confession of an Early, Remote Customer.Everyday people use it. Celebrities use it. And even politicians at the national level use it. Yes, it’s Twitter! But, what really is Twitter?About two and half years ago, I read a posting in Techcrunch about an emerging social network to which members easily became ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Rod King]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Buzz/Press&nbsp;,&nbsp;General]]>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 21:35:59 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Ideal Final Interface - What Should Have Come First, User Interface or Function?]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=324</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I was introduced by this book called "Design of Everyday Things" authored by Donald Norman by a friend of mine few years back. I was ignorant to the fact that there is such a great amount of work going on in the concept of User Iterface (UI) design until I ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Prakasan Kappoth]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 04:11:49 -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>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Jack Hipple]]></author>
			
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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[Economic Impact of Increased US Savings – Contradiction and Opportunities?]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=313</link>
			<description><![CDATA[A recent article published by McKinsey (March ’09) quarterly shows this interesting (to me at least) study on the increasing US consumer savings in the last couple of quarters. Well, in a time when we see the bad news all around, the tendency for the rest of us earning are ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Prakasan Kappoth]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Buzz/Press&nbsp;,&nbsp;General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 07:13:51 -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>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Jack Hipple]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Management&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:28:38 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[More With Less]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=303</link>
			<description><![CDATA[More and more the economic pressures will increase the need for proficiency unilaterally. One way for us to respond to this challenge would be to optimize those things that we currently do. This means of course that we need to get better- and we may already be very good. So ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Michael S. Slocum]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Leadership&nbsp;,&nbsp;Management]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:09:40 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Innovation With A Little Help From Your Friends]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=297</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Community and Web 2.0 continue to be a recurrent theme in many of the conversations I have with innovation leaders.  Helping innovation workers leverage each other is extremely important.  The value of intellectual assets within most companies is largely untapped.  Designers and engineers need better connectivity to ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[James Todhunter]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Management]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:50:17 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Once More on Innovation Versus Transformation]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=293</link>
			<description><![CDATA[If Bruce Nussbaum’s recent posts on the death of innovation have done nothing else, they have generated a lot of reactions in the blogosphere.  Although that inner voice is shouting “Enough already!”, I can’t resist making one more comment on the subject.There have been some very nice pieces written ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[James Todhunter]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Buzz/Press&nbsp;,&nbsp;General]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 10:45:11 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Holiday TRIZ -Holidaying in Crisis..]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=291</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Ellen Domb posted a commentary about the Holiday TRIZ when the “sub-prime” axes slowly began to uproot the decades old financial institutions like Lehman Brothers. She suggested TRIZ thinking even while you are holidaying to identify innovation opportunities around us. I guess, for many of us the July 4th vacation ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Prakasan Kappoth]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology]]>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2008 02:23:22 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[TRIZ Community:  Thanks!]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=289</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The last Thursday in November is the Thanksgiving holiday in the US.   Originally a harvest festival with religious roots, thanking God for enough food to get through the winter, it has evolved into a family-oriented celebration of all the things for which we give thanks, usually centered around ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Ellen Domb]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 14:15:09 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[TRIZ-Future 2008 Conference Day 3]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=287</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Excellent papers in both sessions. As before, I’ll report on the ones I hear personally, but encourage our readers to come to next year’s meeting, and to read the proceedings of this year’s sessions.  Today’s reports will be shorter, because the papers themselves were at a high level of ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Ellen Domb]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Management&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology]]>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 06:57:58 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Systematic (Software) Innovation..]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=286</link>
			<description><![CDATA[“…over the history of software development there have not been that many innovations..” I must have heard this statement elsewhere in some forum, but now this is the base for a new TRIZ for software innovation book recently launched. This is the book written and re-written several times in the ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Prakasan Kappoth]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology]]>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 06:52:45 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[TRIZ-Future 2008 Conference Day 2]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=285</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Day 2 of the TRIZ-Future conference started with parallel sessions on Teaching TRIZ and on business models for innovation.  Since I am speaking in the session on teaching, I will refer our readers to the proceedings (available from www.etria.net after the conference) for the very interesting papers in the ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Ellen Domb]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:04:57 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Milan:  Computer-Aided Innovation]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=282</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Gaetano Cascini and Noel Leon for getting us this abbreviated report on the  2nd IFIP Topical Session on Computer-Aided Innovation, presented in conjunction with the 20th IFIP World Computer Congress (September 7-10, 2008, Milan, IT - http://www.wcc2008.org ), and dedicated to the Integration of CAI systems in ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Ellen Domb]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Buzz/Press&nbsp;,&nbsp;General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology]]>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Evolution of Browsers and Google Chrome – TRIZing it]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=278</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Couple of years back I was explaining the Ideal Final Result (IFR) concept to our engineers (Computer engineers) using the example of “search”. The question we tried to answer; what is the IFR for the function (for consumers) search. Since then I was intrigued by the potential possibilities in the ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Prakasan Kappoth]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Buzz/Press&nbsp;,&nbsp;General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology]]>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 13:06:58 -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>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Praveen Gupta]]></author>
			
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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>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Praveen Gupta]]></author>
			
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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[BCG Innovation 2008 Report]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=261</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The Boston Consulting Group has released their latest report on innovation, “Innovation 2008: Is the Tide Turning?” As always, the BCG report provides some great insights on the state of innovation in business.There are plenty of very interesting insights in the report. It is a quick read and definitely worth ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[James Todhunter]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Management&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:10:23 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Mother of Invention?]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=260</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I’m new to working in Supply Chain and am finding it extremely interesting, challenging, and critical to the long-term success of the organization. One thing that I’ve noticed in particular is that, more than for any other business function, logistics conditions around the world are hugely variable and can be ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Cass Pursell]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:17:21 -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>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Jack Hipple]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Management&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:57:45 -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>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Praveen Gupta]]></author>
			
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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[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>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Jack Hipple]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Management&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:31:15 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Can Innovation Be Learned?]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=248</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Reader Tim de Jardine raised the perennial question of “Can innovation be taught?”  It’s a question that comes up from time to time because of the persistent myth of the great thinker in the back room who is singularly gifted with the ability to create great ideas.  If ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[James Todhunter]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Management&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 14:52:12 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[It's Innovative, But Is That a Good Thing?]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=246</link>
			<description><![CDATA[(Or, Your metrics don’t go with those shoes)I’ve argued in the past that creating and driving innovation shouldn’t be the goal, but that creating and driving sustainable growth should be. The problem with that position is, though, that not all growth is healthy or advisable. Therefore, I’d like to take ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Cass Pursell]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 13:02:23 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Innovation Popcorn]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=245</link>
			<description><![CDATA[There are parallels visible in all aspects of life.  Recently, my personal experiences in the kitchen served as a reminder of how even small changes can have hidden complexities.Years ago, based on concerns over the possible connection between aluminum exposure and Alzheimer’s disease, my wife requested that we replace ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[James Todhunter]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 08:50:54 -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>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Katie Barry]]></author>
			
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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[All Solutions Are Not Equal]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=243</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Regardless of how extensively you deploy TRIZ, or some other systematic innovation engine, one of the first steps you take is to define your ideal state. In TRIZ, this is your Ideal Final Result (IFR), a philosophical construct that provides a measurable framework within which you can gauge progress on ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Michael S. Slocum]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 12:42:27 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Dogwood in the Moonlight]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=240</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Driving up the mountain to Big Bear from the desert below I was struck by the stark contrast between the dry sandy desert - plants not quite in spring bloom, and the snow sledding hills filled with families having a ball. The drive was made even more enjoyable because my ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Lynda Curtin]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 14:56:09 -0700</pubDate>
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