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Breakthrough/Disruptive Innovation Tools
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Case Study: Integrating TRIZ Into Six Sigma
Six Sigma operates based on the assumption that the solution to a problem is contained within the process under investigation. TRIZ, which can solve the problem outside of the process boundaries, is a necessary to Six Sigma to solve external solutions.
Case Study: Using TRIZ to Forecast Technology
TRIZ is emerging as a powerful scientific tool that helps decision-makers to make strategic forecasting decisions. Assessment of a company’s current technology should drive the direction of the R&D planning process.
Empathic Design: Innovation & Observation - Part I
Defining the undefined. Impossible? Maybe not. This article looks at how anthropology can push beyond consumers' indifference.
Emphatic Design: Innovation & Observation - Part 2
Anthropological studies show a Japanese company how to change their perceptions of their customers and, therefore, their product offerings.
Find the Ideal Final Result
The Ideal Final Result (IFR) tool has a solid base in innovation science. Beginning with a problem's optimal end expands the creativity stage by removing all obstacles from the situation. The IFR increases benefits while simultaneously decreasing costs and harm.
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.
Make Innovation More Reliable, Predictable & Pervasive
The lack of innovation is more a function of complacency than of natural constraint. Unusual business success has always been a function of uncommon sense, not of common sense – if common sense says innovation has to be rare, then common sense wrong.
Map a Problem to Reveal Opportunities for Solution
When a company needs to find a problem’s solution, it is important to consider a comprehensive perspective of the system in question prior to problem solving, which provides a framework upon which to base decisions concerning what problem to solve.
People as a Source of Breakthrough Innovation
Partnerships focused on the customer change product offerings in this case study about Philips Design.
Resolved: The Most Powerful Way to Touch People is Through Screens
In this Fast Company conversation, two business leaders discuss the importance of the "screen" not merely for presenting information, but for capturing information.
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.
Seeking - and Measuring - Innovative Ideality
Regardless of how extensively you deploy a systematic innovation engine, one of the first steps you take is to define your ideal state. The IFR can also be used to create the perfect solution to strive for in problem solving.
Six Sigma and Business Innovation: Process or Passion?
A discussion of the relationship between Six Sigma and innovation is a discussion of process and passion.
Tools to Forecast Technology Innovations
Making strategic decisions for product development is one of the most difficult challenges for the research and development (R&D) staff of a business. Assessment of a company’s current technology should drive the direction of the R&D planning process.
Using Analogies to Develop Breakthrough Concepts
Both the classical and software-based TRIZ methods rely heavily on the use of analogy as a teaching method and as a problem solving method. Typically, the TRIZ practioner decides what problem to solve and then redefines the problem.
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.
Using Innovation to Address Unmet Customer Needs
Too few companies step back, review their products and services and assess how well their offerings meet the customer’s requirements. This lack of self-assessment leads to limitless lost opportunities for innovation.
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