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All Articles | Methodology Spotlight | Strategy Spotlight | Tools Spotlight Readers' Choice: View All Top-Rated Articles Archives by Year: 2008 | 2007 | 2006 Resolving Contradictions with 40 Inventive Principles
Innovation practitioners can all benefit from one of the basic concepts of the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ) - at the heart of many problems is a contradiction, and much of innovation involves solving the contradiction. Read the full article. April 28, 2008 Local Problems Lead to Ideal System Solutions
Problem solving at the sub-system, local level can be inefficient. By defining a problem and attempting to solve it without regard for the entire system, there exists the risk of local optimization, with global non-optimization. Read the full article. April 7, 2008 Using Ideality to Improve Solar Panel Release in Space
A problem solver’s objective is to increase the useful functions (numerator) at a rate greater than any consequential increase in the harmful functions (denominator) – this forces a system’s evolution that also increases a system’s ideality. Read the full article. March 3, 2008 Bad Attitudes Can Lead to Good Innovation - Hire Rebels
How can you build a team that is innovative, dynamic and capable of finding breakthroughs for tough problems? One way is to make sure that among your solid citizens you have a good sprinkling of rebels. Read the full article. February 4, 2008 Systematic Innovation's Successes in Healthcare
Systematic innovation is being applied to many industries with great results. Two healthcare case studies address the wide fields of applicability for strategic and systematic innovation Read the full article. January 21, 2008
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