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			<title><![CDATA[A Ridiculous Question with Embarassing Results: What's the Value?]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=437</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I imagine there are some people at Verizon, Netflix, and Bank of America who are surprised and  embarrassed by the enraged consumer responses to the new fees they recently rolled out. Imagine how awful it must be make a decision, implement it, and then watch it implode very publicly, ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Lynda Curtin]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Management&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology]]>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 08:27:24 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Real World of Upward Integration in the Health Care Arena]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=436</link>
			<description><![CDATA[In our efforts to control health care costs, we see all kinds of different approaches being used, a few of which have been discussed in this commentary over time. In the June 29 issue of The Wall Street Journal, pB1, we see an article about a major health insurer (Highmark) ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Jack Hipple]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Management&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 13:00:32 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[TRIZ Podcasts:  the resource story]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=435</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Our friends at TRIZIndia have started a podcast series that will be both a tutorial on TRIZ methods and a discussion of how to teach an apply those methods in real situations in real companies.   It is free and easy (no passwords, no registration process.)  Try the ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Ellen Domb]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Methodology]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:01:54 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Information: Use It!]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=431</link>
			<description><![CDATA[In the same week in the Wall Street Journal, we see two interesting and diverse examples of how information can transform a major industry and a household hobby. In hospitals, blood tests are routinely ordered by phsyicians who rarely ask about the cost. They are simply "passed on" to "somebody" ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Jack Hipple]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Management&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 13:46:14 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Bugs and Solar Power]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=429</link>
			<description><![CDATA[For those of you who don't read the magazine DISCOVER, I want to pass on to you another great example of problems in parallel universes. Several years ago, work started within the TRIZ community to see if the basic principles of TRIZ could also be identified as being used in ...]]></description>
			
			<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[39 Parameters in Information Technology]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=427</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Vladimir Petrov is asking for help from our readers for a new project. His TRIZ Journal articles have been very helpful to many people learning TRIZ, so it is a great privilege to use this column to help him get feedback from readers to advance his research. He said, " ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Ellen Domb]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Methodology]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 10:08:20 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Wyoming is Cool!]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=425</link>
			<description><![CDATA[What's the first thing you think of when you think of the state of Wyoming? Yellowstone Park? Ranches and cattle? Coal mining? Natural gas? Open space? Mountains? Did you thnk COLD? It may not be the coldest place in the US, but parts of it are close to the coldest ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Jack Hipple]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Management&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 11:21:50 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Imaging]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=423</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Understanding and "seeing" things we can't see is a holy grail in a number of technical areas. Vibration tells us a lot about what might be going on inside a piece of mechanical equipment. X-Rays tell us about our body structure. MRI's are used to image organs, soft tissues, and ...]]></description>
			
			<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[Everyday TRIZ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=421</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I had a conversation with a TRIZ/lean/six sigma consultant, who told me with some excitement about his new project, digital book publishing.   I was glad to hear his enthusiasm, but astonished when he told me that the book is ABOUT applications of TRIZ, but that he didn't ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Ellen Domb]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Methodology]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 20:42:42 -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[TRIZ Futures Conf. Day 1 Morning]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=407</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The first morning of the TRIZ Futures Conference European TRIZ Association  2010 is devoted to tutorials.   Jose Vicente (frequent TRIZ Journal author) is doing a half-day tutorial for beginners, and I am at the session presented by Simon Litwin, nominally on Function-Oriented Search, but started with Simon's ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Ellen Domb]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Conference&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 04:22:27 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Combine and Integrate!]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=406</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I have just returned from the annual PDMA conference in where I was also an official blogger and you can my commentary at the PDMA website, http://www.pdma.orgI had the pleasure of listening to and commenting upon many interesting presentations relating to new product innovations that ranged from food and cosmetics ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Jack Hipple]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Conference&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 08:02:50 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[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[How Many Energy Changes Do You Make?]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=398</link>
			<description><![CDATA[There are some fundamental laws of science and engineering that are never violated. One of these says that every time you change energy from one form to another, you lose. The most efficient use of energy is to take energy into a system or product, use its value for something ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Jack Hipple]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Management&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 26 Sep 2010 16:00:37 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[They Could Have Owned It!]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=397</link>
			<description><![CDATA[We have all watched as the "book" industry has restructured itself. Two key things are in the news. Blockbuster has gone into "chapter 11" and is closing a large fraction of its stores. Just recently it was announced that books downloaded on to electronic book readers outsold hard cover books. ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Jack Hipple]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Management&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 26 Sep 2010 15:28:23 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Pressure in Your Tires]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=394</link>
			<description><![CDATA[When was the last time you put air in your tires? Do you have a relatively new car that has an automatic warming light to tell you that tire pressure is low? What did you do? Probably pulled into a gas station, maybe put a quarter or two in the ...]]></description>
			
			<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[Open Innovation and TRIZ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=392</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Two times in two weeks on two continents then twice more by e-mail people asked about TRIZ and open innovation.  Sounds like a trend?   I honestly had not given it much thought, and before my current exposure I would have said that my impression of open innovation ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Ellen Domb]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Conference&nbsp;,&nbsp;Management&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:52:21 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Oil and Chlorine DO Mix!]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=390</link>
			<description><![CDATA["Oil Companies to Create Industry Response System for Deep-Water Oil Spills"What's so special about this announcement? It says that, after decades of off shore oil drilling, the industry is going to collaborate on safety matters. Do you know what the largest chemical shipped by volume in the world is? CHLORINE--a ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Jack Hipple]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Management&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 07:17:24 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Making Copies II]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=386</link>
			<description><![CDATA[How many of you are old enough to remember some of the original cast episodes of Saturday Night Live? There have been several famous ones including the mimicing of Julia Child's cooking show and bleeding all over the food she was cutting, as well as hundreds of spoofs of politicians ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Jack Hipple]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Management&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:54:11 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[&quot;The Invention of Air&quot;]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=385</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Last month we discussed resource utilization levels in food production and made some observations regarding inevitable trends. In that case we were talking about obvious resources. What about unobvious ones? We often say in our workshops that some of the most clever TRIZ problem solving we see is the identification ...]]></description>
			
			<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[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 Conference 2010 Day 2]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=380</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Keynnote: "Innovation is Successful Only When it is "On Code" (Clotaire Rapaille, Archetypes Discoveries Worldwide and Author: The Culture Code: An Ingenious Way to Understand Why People Around the World Live and Buy as They DoClotaire made an extremely interesting presentation on the internal "coding" of our thinking and brains, ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Jack Hipple]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Companies&nbsp;,&nbsp;Conference&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 13:30:23 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Front End of Innovation Conference Report Day 1]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=379</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I am attending the Front End of Innovation conference in Boston and would like to share highlights with RealInnovation readers. This conference was started many years ago by Joyce Wycoff, a creativity consultant in California, primarily for her clients. It was originally called the Fuzzy Front End conference and blossomed ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Conference&nbsp;,&nbsp;Management&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 22:27:14 -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[50 Most Innovative Companies?]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=376</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Technology Review magazine's listing of the world's most innovative companies has just arrived (see www.technologyreview.com/tr50).  For the first time I am not going to rant about lists of "most innovative" that don't have the criteria for selection or the definition of innovation!  You may disagree with the TR ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Ellen Domb]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Methodology]]>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 10:28:42 -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>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Praveen Gupta]]></author>
			
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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[Look Up and Down for Innovation!]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=372</link>
			<description><![CDATA[There is a fundamental law of product and business innovation that says that systems integrate into their super-systems over time. What does this mean? Let's take an example. You are in the business of making paint roller pans. You have worked hard over the years to add stability to these ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Jack Hipple]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Management&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:31:30 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Creativity and Risk-taking Competencies for Innovation]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=370</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Can you teach other people to be innovators?   Or can you teach yourself to be more innovative?   TRIZ practioners learn to generate innovative ideas, but they don't always get their ideas adopted in their organizations.Sarah Miller Caldicott is co-author of Innovate Like Edison and author of ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Ellen Domb]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Methodology]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:51:34 -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[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[Information: A Key Resource]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=366</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Many of you may have seen Google's earnings report announced on Friday, January 22. In the 4th quarter of 2009, their sales (just one quarter!) were $6.7 BILLION and profits of $2 BILLION. This was 5 times the profit of the previous quarter. Let's think about this a second. How ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Jack Hipple]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Management&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:10:36 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Innovation in the New Year]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=361</link>
			<description><![CDATA[We head into 2010 with uncertainty. Things look like they may be turning up a little, but many people are still cautious, considering all the financial turbulence. In times like this, it's always best to fall back on things and principles we know will stand the test of time. Let's ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Jack Hipple]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Management&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:15:06 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Droid - No Compromises?]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=355</link>
			<description><![CDATA[How good is the new Droid phone? I can't tell you that - but I CAN tell you that the premise of an ad I found displaying on CNN.com tonight has me intrigued.The ad (shown in the static screen grab here) states plainly "Compromise Deactivated." Being on the search for ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Katie Barry]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Buzz/Press&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology]]>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:28:04 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Nov. 3: Listen to Ellen Domb on Quality Conversations]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=346</link>
			<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, November 3rd, Ellen Domb will be a guest on Steve Wilson's Quality Conversations on BlogTalkRadio. Click and listen at 11 a.m. PT to a discussion on "TRIZ Techniques and Their Practical Application."Ellen is an expert on the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ - an innovation methodology), founding ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Katie Barry]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Buzz/Press&nbsp;,&nbsp;Conference&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology]]>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:48:21 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Red Zone]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=339</link>
			<description><![CDATA[What is the red zone? In American football over the past ten years it has come to mean the last 20 yards to go before a touchdown--the 20 yard line of the opposing team. Why is this important? Well, the defense gets a little more stingy and there’s less ground ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Jack Hipple]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Management&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 13:54:49 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Make Information Come to You!]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=333</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Accurate, timely, and low cost information can be a critical component of innovation and market research. Think about the following things that all of you have experienced or seen in the past few years. First "I Report" on CNN News. People all over the country are empowered, with no money ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Jack Hipple]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Management&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:20:06 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Innovation at the Verge]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=331</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Futurist, Joel Barker has a new video presentation--Innovation at the Verge. You may want to view the preview. I am planning on using it with a client to help them clear out the work pressures from their minds, and to set the scene for learning Lateral Thinking tools. Here is ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Lynda Curtin]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Methodology]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:34:32 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Putting the NO in InNOvation]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=326</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Have you seen the recent frequently running ad from Post Cereals about Shredded Wheat? It hypes the the fact that shredded wheat is virtually unchanged from its original form decades ago and by golly it’s going to stay that way! The spokesperson puts the word innovation up on a flip ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Jack Hipple]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Management&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:12:59 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[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[What If This Works?]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=322</link>
			<description><![CDATA[In my days as Discovery Research Director at Dow Chemical, I was given a large chunk of money reserved for research and new product projects unrelated to the current business areas. This money was taken from the line R&amp;D budgets of the existing organizations in an attempt to get the ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Jack Hipple]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Management&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 20:59:33 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Searching for Industries With the Greatest Pain ... The Story Continues]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=321</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Joey was like many inventors. He had come up with a great technology that involves a visual process for better organizing massive amounts of information. He was now finding cool ways to apply the technology. “Search is cool,” Joey thought. “And, in time, I could make a lot of bucks ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Rod King]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Management&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 17:26:31 -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[HP Talks TRIZ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=310</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Phil McKinney, the chief technology officer of Hewlett-Packard's personal systems group, may not be familiar with the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ) - an innovation methodology - but he is talking about a key TRIZ tool in a new interview: the ideal final result. The article quotes McKinney as ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Katie Barry]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Companies&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:44:19 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[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[Not-so-live From iSixSigma Live! Summit &amp; Awards]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=295</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Last week I was in Miami for iSixSigma Live! Summit &amp; Awards. (iSixSigma is a sister publication to Real Innovation.) Innovation made its way into the agenda in a few places. (Readers of Real Innovation and The TRIZ Journal are familiar with TRIZ expert Ellen Domb who joined us for ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Katie Barry]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Conference&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:20:19 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[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[Problem 1 vs. Problem 2]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=290</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I recently attended a re-certification course in the Kirton KAI™ assessment tool. This is one of many psychological assessment tools designed to measure "style" in a person’s behavior or approach to a situation. This one focuses specifically on an individual’s problem solving style as opposed to social style (www.kaicentre.com for ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Jack Hipple]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Management&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:02:22 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Vibrating Mascara]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=288</link>
			<description><![CDATA[In a recent Sunday papers around the world, a large full page, color (not cheap!) advertisement was shown displaying a new mascara brush from Lancome: http://www.lancome-usa.com/makeup/mascara/oscillation.aspxWhen you watch the video at this site, you will hear things like: "Pulls lashes apart" "Coats all sides" "Vibrates at 7000 cycles per minute" ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Jack Hipple]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Management&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:51:21 -0700</pubDate>
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