Innovation Flow

Innovative Solutions for COVID-19 Virus Problem - Application of TRIZ We have directed the attention of a powerful group of people - hashtag # Tech hashtag # Innovators & hashtag # TRIZ hashtag # Experts - to solve the most important and immediate problems associated with managing the current hashtag # crisis of COVID-19. It is important that we start attacking the problem right away instead of waiting a miracle to happen. Since the problem is a complex one, we need to bring our Minds & Resources together to create innovative solutions. Most of us are working from home ( hashtag # WFH ) now - there are some of us who have to be physically present at work to manage certain essential services. We have analyzed various problems faced at us Home and at Work-place during this time of crisis. The primary objective is to minimize exposure and risk and at the same time get our jobs done. Let us first look at three problems that we may face while at home for these 21 day...

There are good parallels between how Panini simplified and made Sanskrit grammar accessible to all and how Altshuller simplified and made the collective wisdom of Inventive knowledge accessible to all. Panini and Altshuller were not contemporaries, they were separated by at least 25 centuries. But their zeal and perseverance to reduce complex stuff into a handful of powerful principles is very much comparable. Their himalayan effort connected the invisible dots and brought out patterns that were submerged in a vast amount of unstructured data.  Panini is a great sanskrit grammarian and logician (~ 4th century BC).  He was a pioneer in Linguistics and his works were path breaking in both descriptive and generative linguistics. He was a forerunner of modern formal language widely used in modern computer languages. Source -  http://ramm.hubpages.com/hub/PANINI-LOGICIAN-AND-SANSKRIT-GRAMMARIAN Genrich Altshuller, the originator of TRIZ, was working in the pat...

Here we look at the four basic element of creative thinking  A - Alternative thinking B - Beyond thinking C - Convergent thinking and D - Divergent thinking The ABCD of Creative Thinking A - Alternative Thinking as a problem analysis technique -  Look at the problem through a different lens - What is the problem that you wish to solve - How would a 4 year old kid look at this problem - How would Walt Disney or Steve Jobs look at this problem, How would Mahatma Gandhi look at this problem - I created a powerful deck of 108 triggers for looking at a problem through different lens (on 27 August, 2011) - I have been using it at all my Innovation workshops - we get many good ideas and it is very popular.  I will be sharing this deck in my blog posts. Solve Tough Problem by using Lenses -  http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2007/05/09/solve-tough-problems-by-using-lenses/ B - Beyond Thinking is also a problem defining techn...

I delivered an Innovation talk to scientists at the National Chemicals Laboratory, Pune on 27 August '09. NCL is a premier lab run by Council for Scientific and Industrial research, Government of India. I spoke on Innovation flow - the science of flowing Ideas and Inventions into Technology Innovations. You will find the Presentation Material "Innovation Flow" at SlideShare: I have posted the presentation in two parts http://www.slideshare.net/shankarmv/innovation-flow-shankar-framework http://www.slideshare.net/shankarmv/innovation-flow-shankar-triz Alternatively, you can find this and a few more of my presentations at my LinkedIn page: http://www.linkedin.com/in/shankarmv

Most of us make our daily living by generating creative ideas, solving tough technical problems and translating our ideas into inventions. Now what would give us greater satisfaction? – Innovation, i.e taking our insightful ideas and breakthrough inventions successfully to the market. How good are we at Innovation? – the present statistics are quite discouraging - typically, for every hundred good ideas, ten may lead to breakthrough inventions and one to an innovative product that meets a critical need of the customer. To accelerate the Innovation process and to maximize the Return on Innovation, we need a systematic Innovation process that will (a) focus and structure our ideation efforts (b) align our ideas to solve a critical need and ensure that the Customer sees added value and most importantly (c) give us the satisfaction of seeing our idea through the end of the Innovation Funnel. As an inventor, I have often wondered how to bridge the gap between invention and innovation. When ...