Commentary by Katie Barry

Welcome to Our New Commentator!

As you may have noticed, Real Innovation added a new commentator to our team last week – Praveen Gupta.

A business innovation teacher at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, Praveen brings a fresh perspective to sharing the methods and tools for achieving systematic innovation. In his other life, Praveen is the president of Accelper Consulting, which works to achieve sustained profitable growth for its customers.

Also an author, Praveen is the lead author of the newly released Business Innovation in the 21st Century: A Comprehensive Approach to Institutionalize Business Innovation as well as the Six Sigma Business Scorecard and The Six Sigma Performance Handbook.I have two complimentary copies of Business Innovation in the 21st Century for the first two people to email me with:

1. Full name
2. Title
3. Company name
4. Mailing address
5. The correct answer to this question: What does the acronym "TRIZ" stand for?

[UPDATE 4/12/07 8:10a.m.]

Congratulations to the winners:

1. Beryl Mereaux, a quality engineer for Snecma
2. Nitin Sahni, associate vice president for E2E SerWiz Solutions

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