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May 2012
* New Publication: TRIZ Community Story
February 2012
* A Ridiculous Question with Embarassing Results: What’s the Value?
July 2011
* The Real World of Upward Integration in the Health Care Arena
June 2011
* TRIZ Podcasts: the resource story
* Necessity vs. Scarcity
* IRI Meeting Day 2 Commentary
May 2011
* Industrial Research Institute Meeting Report-I
* Information: Use It!
* S.T.E.M. Plus
* Bugs and Solar Power
* People and Dreams
March 2011
* 39 Parameters in Information Technology
* e-Waste... Electronics and Sustainability Symposium
* Wyoming is Cool!
* Plan for Face-to-face Learning
* Imaging
February 2011
* Who Are You?
January 2011
* Everyday TRIZ
December 2010
* Innovation is Like Shooting a Hole-In-One
* Pumps and Pipes and Hearts
* Iberoamerican Innovation Congress, Day 3
* Iberoamerican Innovation Congress, Day 2
* Iberoamerican Innovation Congress, Day 1
November 2010
* Coffee Cups, Toilet Paper Cores, Video Stores, UV Protection, and Magic Fiddles
* Teaching Innovation - Part III
* TRIZ Futures Conf. Day 3
* TRIZ Futures Conf. Day 2 afternoon
* TRIZ Futures Conf. Day 2 Morning
* TRIZ Futures Conf. Day 1 Afternoon
* TRIZ Futures Conf. Day 1 Morning
October 2010
* Combine and Integrate!
* Business Innoation Confernce Day 3 by John Forsberg
* TRIZCON and National Innovation Conference Day 2
* TRIZCON and National Innovation Conference part 2
* TRIZCON and National Innovation Conference part 1
* Business Innovation Conference Day 2
* Business Innovation Conference: Day 1
September 2010
* Search Party is Over for Google? TRIZ Analysis
* How Many Energy Changes Do You Make?
* They Could Have Owned It!
* 2010 R&D Team Winner: Hormel Foods
August 2010
* Innovation Wars?
* The Pressure in Your Tires
* Simplifying Smartly
* Open Innovation and TRIZ
* Observations on the TRIZ Developers Summit 2010
* Oil and Chlorine DO Mix!
July 2010
* TRIZ India Summit Day 2
* TRIZ India Summit Day 1
* World Future Society Meeting Report
June 2010
* Making Copies II
* "The Invention of Air"
* TRIZ in Six Sigma at DoD
* Continuous Innovation Enables Breakthrough
May 2010
* Water and Innovation
* Front End of Innovation Day 3
* Front End of Innovation Conference 2010 Day 2
* Front End of Innovation Conference Report Day 1
April 2010
* Getting to Know You....
* The Recipe for Creativity
* 50 Most Innovative Companies?
* Innovation for Creating Jobs
March 2010
* Business Innovation Maturity Model (BIMM)
* Report: Queens School of Business 1st Annual Innovation Summit
* Look Up and Down for Innovation!
February 2010
* Creativity and Risk-taking Competencies for Innovation
* Light Weight Cycle Vs Heavy Weight Cycles
* Attitude vs. Tools
* Innovation at iSixSigma Live! in Miami
January 2010
* Information: A Key Resource
* Day 3 Report: First International Conference on Systematic Innovation
* Day 2 Report: First International Conference on Systematic Innovation
* Report from First International Conference on Systematic Innovation
* Teaching Innovation - Part II
* Innovation & The Economy in 2010
* Innovation in the New Year
December 2009
* My Innovation Story of 2009
* Dark Dining, a Trimming Experience
* Report on ISPIM Meeting
* Make Copies!
November 2009
* The Droid - No Compromises?
* Last Day: 4th Congreso Iberoamericano de Innovacion Tecnologica
* Day 2 at 4th Congreso Iberoamericano de Innovacion Tecnologica
* Report #2 from the 4th Congreso Iberoamericano de Innovacion Tecnologica
* Report from the 4th Congreso Iberoamericano de Innovatcion Tecnologica
* Real Innovation Turns 3
* European TRIZ Association Conference
* Report from the 33rd Annual PDMA Conference
October 2009
* Nov. 3: Listen to Ellen Domb on Quality Conversations
* Business Innovation Conference 10/7/2009 Afternoon
* Business Innovation Conference 10/7/2009 Second Morning Session
* Business Innovation Conference 10/7/2009
* Afternoon Business Innovation Conference 10/6/2009
* Business Innovation Conference 10/6/2009 - Second Session
* Live Report from the Business Innovation Conference 10/6/2009
* The Red Zone
* HBR Understands Resources
September 2009
* TRIZ and Six Sigma: Ellen Domb on Quality Conversations
* Introducing Contradictions in Businesses - Is That a Conscious Strategy?
* Innovation in a Carbon Constrained World
* Make Information Come to You!
* About Commentator: Kady Srinivasan
August 2009
* TRIZ Papers Win Awards at ICED
* Innovation at the Verge
* CAI Conference Day 2
* Computer-Aided Innovation Conference in Harbin, China: Day 1, Afternoon Session
* Computer-Aided Innovation Conference-Live Report
June 2009
* Putting the NO in InNOvation
* Keep the Antenna Out!
May 2009
* What Job Is Twitter Helping Customers To Do?
* Ideal Final Interface - What Should Have Come First, User Interface or Function?
* Report From UK TRIZ Forum #1
* What If This Works?
* Searching for Industries With the Greatest Pain ... The Story Continues
* Japan TRIZ Symposium 2008 Presentations Online
April 2009
* TARP and Stress Tests
* Business Model Innovation: What is it?
* Creative Conference Experience
* Economic Impact of Increased US Savings – Contradiction and Opportunities?
* Why Create the Ideal State?
* HP Talks TRIZ
* About Commentator: Rod King
* About Commentator: Bob Malanga
March 2009
* Innovation in a Zero Capital World: Ask and Trim!
* Be On the Lookout for Fresh Concepts
* TRIZCON2009 Day 2
* Report from TRIZCON 2009 in California
* Innovation Policy for Obama
February 2009
* Innovation in Hard Times
* More With Less
* Innovation Is Good? Part 2
* Sir Ken Robinson in Seattle
* 2009 - European Year of Creativity and Innovation
January 2009
* Report From The TRIZ Practitioners Exchange: Day 2
* Report From The TRIZ Practitioners Exchange: Day 1
* Innovation With A Little Help From Your Friends
* Innovation Is Good?
* Not-so-live From iSixSigma Live! Summit & Awards
* The Timing is Ripe for An Innovation Communication Audit
* Once More on Innovation Versus Transformation
December 2008
* The 4400
* Holiday TRIZ -Holidaying in Crisis..
* Problem 1 vs. Problem 2
November 2008
* TRIZ Community: Thanks!
* Vibrating Mascara
* TRIZ-Future 2008 Conference Day 3
* Systematic (Software) Innovation..
* TRIZ-Future 2008 Conference Day 2
* TRIZ-Future 2008 Conference Day 1
* Solve the Economic Crisis
October 2008
* Milan: Computer-Aided Innovation
* The Tic-Tac-Toe Approach to Strategic Planning
* Booz & Company’s Global Innovation 1000
* Evolution of Browsers and Google Chrome – TRIZing it
* Iberoamerican Innovation Congress Days 3 & 4
* Changing Corporate Culture for Innovation
* Guadalajara: Iberoamerican Innovation Congress Days 1 & 2
* About Commentator: Prakasan Kappoth
September 2008
* Report from Zacatecas Day 2
* Nominate Your Company for iSixSigma Live! Award!
* Report from Zacatecas: Innovation and Quality Day 1
* A Dangerous Trend in R&D
* PDMA’s 32nd Annual International Conference - Day 2
* PDMA’s 32nd Annual International Conference - Day 1
* The Fourth TRIZ Symposium in Japan
* Business Innovation Conference Day 3
* Business Innovation Conference- Day 2
* Itinerant Innovation or Traveling TRIZ
August 2008
* What’s Your Sign (Of Innovation)?
* Olympic TRIZ
* BCG Innovation 2008 Report
July 2008
* The Mother of Invention?
* Report from St. Petersburg, Days 4 & 5
* Report from St. Petersburg, Day 3
* Report from St. Petersburg, Days 1 & 2
* PDMA’s 32nd Annual International Conference
* Holiday TRIZ
* What Business Are You In?
* Eat Soup With a Fork to Learn Innovation
June 2008
* Perspective
* The Hidden Innovator
* Seven Killers of Innovation
* Bad News Is Good!
May 2008
* Can Innovation Be Learned?
* It’s Innovative, But Is That a Good Thing?
* Innovation Popcorn
* Why Is Innovation a Competition?
* Innovation and Six Sigma
* All Solutions Are Not Equal
* The Customer-Centered Innovation Map
* Dogwood in the Moonlight
* Functional Discontinuity
April 2008
* Dynamism in Innovation
* Open Innovation
* Why Go to Conferences?
* Tuesday at TRIZCON2008
* Monday at TRIZCON2008
* TRIZCON2008--Sunday Report
* Eight New Trends - Or Examples of Well-known Trends of Evolution
* Changing Your Focus
* iSixSigma Live! Seattle Networking Party
* Do Schools Kill Creativity?
March 2008
* A Vote for Process Innovation
* Structure is a Good Thing
* Innovation in Small Businesses
* A Recession is Coming (?)
* Organizational Brownian Motion
* Technology Forecasting: How to Practice
* An Innoholic
* Sound Guidance From Four Top Practitioners
February 2008
* You Measure What Matters
* The Decline of the Corporate Lab Rat?
* Innovation Lessons From Italian Furniture Design
* Creative Thinking
* The IBM Study on Innovation (Part 2)
* Strange Attractors and Ideality
* Training For The Innovation Ultra-marathon
* Innovators in My Neighborhood
* The IBM Study on Innovation
January 2008
* Where’s My Return on Innovation?!
* Wal Mart Saves the World
* TRIZ in ASQ’s New Issue
* Innovation Supersymmetry
* Broken Windows of Innovation
* Global Innovation - Part II
* Your New Years Innovation Resolutions
* Heuristic Redefinition
* Global Innovation - Part I
* The Long Nose of Innovation
December 2007
* Competitive Excellence
* It’s The End of the Year - Do You Know Where Your Innovation Process Is?
* Balanced Innovation
* Hey, You Got Your Innovative Ideas In My Process Expertise!
* VOC and Innovation, Friend or Foe?
* Tens of Innovation
* What Did You Do This Year?
* Forbes on Key Business Questions
* Crowd Innovation
* Innovative Companies - Most, Best, or Managed
* Patents – Innovation Killer or Innovation Accelerator
* The Sin of Underestimation: Poltava and the Battle of Moscow
November 2007
* Corn Fields and Anti-bodies
* The Four Archetypes
* I’m Going to Eat Your Brains and Gain Your Knowledge
* Mimicking Innovation
* Real Innovation Turns 1!
* National Innovation Initiative
* Intellectual Property Protection
* ETRIA - Day 3
* ETRIA - Day 2
* Can Johnny Innovate?
* ETRIA - Day 1 Afternoon
* European TRIZ Association TRIZ Futures 2007—Day 1 Morning
* 2007 TRIZ Conferences
* Innovation--There and Not There
* 2nd Iberoamerican Technological Innovation Congress - Day 3
* Reflecting On Past Innovations
October 2007
* 2nd Iberoamerican Technological Innovation Congress - Day 2
* Convergence and Divergence
* Trick or Treat
* Report from the 2nd IberoAmerican Technological Innovation Congress
* Coping with Process Variation
* Bend it Like Nestle
* Creativity and Innovation Management Conference
* Chicago Innovation Award
* Limitation Stimulates Creativity
* Leadership for Innovation
* Time To Fish Or Cut Bait
* Dean Kamen’s New Arm
* Non-linear Problem Solving
* Success through Innovation Conference - Part II
* Success Through Innovation Conference – Part I
* Scheduled Innovation
* Call for Papers - TRIZCON 2008
September 2007
* The International Space Station Meets TRIZ
* I’m Not Saying Executives Can Be Stubborn, But...
* Microsoft National Innovation Forum - Part IV: The Album and Acknowledgements
* Microsoft National Innovation Forum - Part III: Innovation Practices
* Microsoft National Innovation Forum - Part II: MS Solutions
* Microsoft National Innovation Forum - Part I: The Context
* Right- and Left-Brained Thinking
* Innovation Tours
* Vintage Drucker on Innovation
* Six Sigma Drives Innovation
* Fun With False Choices
* Seawolf Meets TRIZ
* Conference Musings: Sell Your Ideas
* Innovating From The Top - Method, Myth, or Madness?
* TRIZ Meets Cassini
* Process for Innovation
* Melding Design and Strategy for Faster Innovation
* Anti-Age or Pro-Age: Dove Shifts the Conversation
* Last Day At The Third TRIZ Symposium in Japan
* About Commentator: Bob Carter
* Day 2 at The Third TRIZ Symposium in Japan
August 2007
* Functionality
* Report From The Third TRIZ Symposium in Japan
* Powerful Concepts: Valentino’s Secret Weapon
* About Commentator: Lynda Curtin, The Opportunity Thinker
* Making it Faster
* Lean Six Sigma Forum 2007 in Malaysia
* Remember, It’s Just a Tool
* Report from the Process of Innovation, Wednesday afternoon
* Report from the Process of Innovation - Wednesday Morning
* Report from the Process of Innovation, Tuesday afternoon part 2
* Report from the Process of Innovation, Tuesday afternoon
* Report from the Process of Innovation -Tuesday Morning
* Report from the Process of Innovation Conference
* Theories of Innovation
* Race Cars and Corporations
* Innovation is Different and So Are People
* Creativity@Work
* News from TRIZ-fest in Moscow
July 2007
* The Economics of Innovation
* Innovation From a Six Sigma View
* Predictable Futures: Using Patterns of System Evolution
* The People Side of Innovation
* Growing Tomatoes in the Desert
* About Commentator: Jack Hipple
* The Innovation Constraint
* The Importance of Good Innovation Habits
* Innovation at Ford - A Micro-Case Study
* Least Innovative Companies
* Process for Innovation Conference
* Most Innovative Companies
* Think Innovation Is A Numbers Game? Think Again; Change The Rules.
* About Commentator: James Todhunter
June 2007
* Failing Upward
* Survey Says...
* Your Company Needs to be Durable and Great
* Creating the Impetus for Design for Lean Six Sigma
* Strategy, Discipline and Six Sigma Drive Innovation Effectiveness
* Innovation - Why?
* Reader Survey Time!
* Queueing Theory
* Chasing Innovation (Your Economic Life Depends on It)
* Improvement and Innovation
* Innovation and Six Sigma
May 2007
* Complexity, Contradictions, and Cost
* TRIZ in Forbes
* Measures of Innovation
* Over Innovation
* Innovation Epicycles
* Last Day of Front End of Innovation
* Day 2 of the Front End of Innovation
* Front End of Innovation Conference
* Education in Innovation
April 2007
* TRIZCON - Last Two Sessions
* TRIZCON - Last Day in Louisville
* TRIZCON - Afternoon of Day 2
* TRIZCON Comments From Ellen Domb
* TRIZCON - Super Effects and Predictive Failure Analysis
* TRIZ Journal Editors Together!
* TRIZCON continues - de Bono and TRIZ
* TRIZCON Day 2 - Keynote
* More from Day 1 of TRIZCON - ARIZ and Substance Field Analysis
* Day 1 TRIZCON - TRIZ for IP Strategies Development
* TRIZCON 2007 Begins!
* Economic Growth Through Innovation
* Grand Unification Theory of Business
* Uncle Sam Wants You!
* TRIZ on YouTube
* Welcome to Our New Commentator!
* Teaching Innovation
* Institutionalizing Innovation
* The Wired List
March 2007
* Innovation Payback
* Back to the Bias-Sphere
* Innovation Survey
* 300- Only Part of the Story
* Innovation or Evolution?
* Why is Systematic Innovation So Hard?
* Beginning At the End
* The Bias-Sphere and the Lowest Energy State: Bathed in Mediocrity
February 2007
* Think You Have What It Takes to be a Chief Innovation Officer?
* Ideality and Idealized Design
* Soliciting External Inspiration
* Now for Something Completely Different
* Surveying Innovation Activity
January 2007
* Welcome Back Kotter
* A TRIZ Podcast
* Real Cultural Change
* Providing the Tools
* Travel to Conferences
* Innovation and Rome
* Celebrating 10 Years of The TRIZ Journal
* Little "i" Innovation
* About Commentator: Praveen Gupta
* About Commentator: Michael Cyger
* About Commentator: Ellen Domb
* About Commentator: Cass Pursell
* About Commentator: Michael S. Slocum
* About Commentator: Katie Barry
December 2006
* Out-of-Place Artifacts and Disruptive Innovation
* Entrepreneur of the Year
* Right Tasty Glaze
* Innovation Maverick
* Aligning For Innovation
* Innovation with Silly String
* Who Can I Sell This To?
November 2006
* Innovation: Infinite in All Directions
* Wipro’s Growing Innovation Business
* Dilbert on Six Sigma and Innovation
* Innostructure
* IBM Dedicates $100 Million to Innovation
* Real Innovation Is Upon Us
* Innovation Certification?
* TRIZ in Business Week
* Welcome to the Real Innovation Commentaries
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