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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[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[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[IRI Meeting Day 2 Commentary]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=433</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Industrial Research Institute Meeting Report-II  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 ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Jack Hipple]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Companies&nbsp;,&nbsp;Management&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 16:14:08 -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[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[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[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[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[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[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[Plan for  Face-to-face Learning]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=424</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Some of the most popular articles in this "commentary" column are the reports from TRIZ conferences around the world.   I frequently encourage readers to participate in conferences, because the exchange of information face-to-face is a far richer experience than reading the formal papers from conferences, and we need ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Ellen Domb]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Conference]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 10:27:49 -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[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>
			<guid>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=421</guid>
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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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