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			<title><![CDATA[Necessity vs. Scarcity]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=434</link>
			<description><![CDATA[A recent discussion on the Harvard Business Review Blog Network highlights a discussion, started by Teresa Amibile and Steve Kramer promoting necessity, as opposed to scarcity,  as the mother of invention. They discuss the pros and cons of "starving" as an incentive to innovate and examples such "EInk" which ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Jack Hipple]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Leadership&nbsp;,&nbsp;Management&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:29:03 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Industrial Research Institute Meeting Report-I]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=432</link>
			<description><![CDATA[IRI Meeting-I was priveleged to present a workshop on TRIZ problem solving at the annual IRI meeting in Philadelphia this year and was able to attend a number of very interesting presentations from senior executives from materials and service industires. I'd like to report on several of these presentations.Joe Miller, ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Jack Hipple]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Conference&nbsp;,&nbsp;Leadership&nbsp;,&nbsp;Management]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 13:59:42 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[People and Dreams]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=428</link>
			<description><![CDATA[We hear all the time about how few new ideas actually wind up as commercially successful (I.e. make money) products or services and we all wish the percentage is higher. But when failure does occur, it's important that we learn from it. There's a tendency to bury problems so that ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Jack Hipple]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Leadership&nbsp;,&nbsp;Management&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 16:45:45 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[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[Innovation Wars?]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=395</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Stop the Innovation Wars is the attention-getting title of this month's Harvard Business Review attempt at controversy by Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble, both on the faculty at Dartmouth, and co-authors of a new book on innovation, due out in November.  (See www.hbr.org  July-Aug. 2010)   What ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Ellen Domb]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Leadership&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 05:35:20 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Water and Innovation]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=382</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Do any of you use water in your processes? Why? How much? Most likely it's to cool something or to dilute something. Clean water is becoming more precious all the time as a Florida resident such as myself can testify. Though we are surrounded by "water", it's salty seawater and ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Jack Hipple]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Leadership&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 14:46:13 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Front End of Innovation Day 3]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=381</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Theme for the Day: Moving Beyond the Core: New Business Model Creation, Keynote: Vijay Govindarajan, Professor of International Business and Founding Director of the Tuck Center for Global Leadership, gave a fascinating presentation highlighting the ignorance of many in the West about global markets and totally unique concepts for new ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Jack Hipple]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Conference&nbsp;,&nbsp;Leadership]]>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 21:29:35 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[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[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>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Praveen Gupta]]></author>
			
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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[Attitude vs. Tools]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=368</link>
			<description><![CDATA[As an engineer and someone involved with TRIZ and innovation audits of organizations, I frequently find myself in discussions and conflicts with more right brained creativity individuals. I will define right brained as those who basically believe that in the fields of creativity and innovation it is quantity that is ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Jack Hipple]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Leadership&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:12:47 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Innovation &amp; The Economy in 2010]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=362</link>
			<description><![CDATA[On December 7th this lively panel discussion was hosted on CSPAN by Mathew Bishop, Business Editor of The Economist. The panel of excellent innovators includes: Dean Kamen, Inventor, Segway; Kai Huang, Co-Founder, The Guitar Hero; Rob Carlson, Principal, Biodesic; Dwayne Spradin, President and CEO, InnoCentive.They shared their thinking about the ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Lynda Curtin]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Buzz/Press&nbsp;,&nbsp;Leadership]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:22:14 -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[Keep the Antenna Out!]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=327</link>
			<description><![CDATA[In a column two weeks ago, I made some serious suggestions regarding thinking about innovative discoveries and their ultimate outcome prior to investing tons of money. Let’s take the other tack to see both sides of innovation and discoveries.We can’t afford to chase every idea that comes along and that’s ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Jack Hipple]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Leadership&nbsp;,&nbsp;Management&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:12:59 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Business Model Innovation: What is it?]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=316</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Joey Bloggs was nervous. He paced the corridor as he waited for his turn. To Joey, it felt like the first time when he ventured into the ocean with his surfboard. A creative entrepreneur with big dreams, Joey was eager to pitch his business and prototype to the panel of ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Rod King]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Leadership&nbsp;,&nbsp;Management&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:09:06 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Innovation Policy for Obama]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=305</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The current economic scenario has triggered several discussions on emphasizing an innovation action plan for Obama administration to revitalize the US (and apparently the world) economy. The recent Business Week article by Thomas D. Kuczmarski proposing a step-by-step innovation action plan for Obama is encouraging at this juncture, because the ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Prakasan Kappoth]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Buzz/Press&nbsp;,&nbsp;Leadership&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 04:46:51 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Innovation in Hard Times]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=304</link>
			<description><![CDATA[It’s all around us. The language of hard times is everywhere, in every journal, every newspaper, in the State of the Union address, in your stockbroker statements, and in your daily conversations. In a short, but insightful article in Chemical and Engineering News on February 2, Melody Voith summarized the ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Jack Hipple]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Leadership&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:58:16 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[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 Is Good? Part 2]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=302</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The last week of January I posted a commentary telling our readers that I had been asked to substitute for a speaker on the subject of “how to persuade your boss that innovation is a good thing.” I decided to have the audience members answer the question for themselves, since ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Ellen Domb]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Conference&nbsp;,&nbsp;Leadership]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:53:04 -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>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Katie Barry]]></author>
			
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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[Innovation Is Good?]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=296</link>
			<description><![CDATA["How to persuade your boss that innovation is a good thing?”I was recently invited to speak at a conference on this topic—way outside my usual comfort zone of “What is TRIZ” or “How to merge TRIZ into your Lean Six Sigma System” or “Innovation for Everybody” speeches. This conference is ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Ellen Domb]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Conference&nbsp;,&nbsp;Leadership&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:00:22 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Timing is Ripe for An Innovation Communication Audit]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=294</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I received a marketing piece inviting me to a seminar on “How-to Survive” in a Market Downturn. I deleted it immediately. My intention is to THRIVE, not just to s u r v I v e. I hope yours is too. This incident got me to thinking about the ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Lynda Curtin]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Leadership&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:44:06 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The 4400]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=292</link>
			<description><![CDATA[In the past two weeks or so, there has been a torrent of layoffs, plant closings, and restructurings unknown in recent times. Two major layoffs that caught my eye with my chemical industry background, were those of Dow Chemical (5000) and Air Products (1500). These numbers are in the neighborhood ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Jack Hipple]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Leadership&nbsp;,&nbsp;Management&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:50:00 -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[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>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Katie Barry]]></author>
			
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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[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>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Katie Barry]]></author>
			
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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[Think You Have What It Takes to be a Chief Innovation Officer?]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=33</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Companies like Humana, Coca-Cola, AMD, Citigroup and Cargill are all establishing the position of Chief Innovation Officer (CIO - unfortunately, confusingly similar to Chief Information Officer). It appears that companies are recognizing that the development of new ideas, new products, new services and new strategies requires a concerted effort led ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Michael Cyger]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Leadership]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:15:56 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Travel to Conferences]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=23</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Regular readers of the TRIZ Journal know that I am constantly filling the “welcome letter” (our editorial column) with reminders almost a year in advance for readers to submit papers to the various conferences around the globe, and more reminders to make travel plans as the dates of the conference ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Ellen Domb]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Leadership]]>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jan 2007 13:39:40 -0700</pubDate>
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