Making Innovation as easy as Pie
Blogging about Innovation, especially Innovation in Ireland. You'll find case studies, videos, hints, tips, polls and reviews.
TRIZ, NLP, Appreciative Inquiry, LEAN and Ayurveda are all in the mix.
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Those wishing to find out some more about TRIZ can check out a “Welcome to TRIZ” series of webinars from Oxford Creativity. Each webinar will be led by an experienced TRIZ Trainer and Problem Solver.
I’ve signed up. Maybe I’ll review it here.
First one is next Friday 30th July so if interested pop over to Oxford Creativity and sign up.
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Very excited to have an article published in the latest edition on Technology Ireland. The magazine is dedicated to providing the inspiration to innovate. Entrepreneurs, researchers and technology managers share their real life stories. It is a good read and a great resource.
The article is here.
I guess my pet topics came up.
The basic point I make and probably the basic point of this blog. is this…
Creativity is not a black art. Innovation can
be learned and developed. It may take some
perseverance in the beginning, but, as with any
skill, practice yields great results. A little coaching
and some simple techniques can help us relearn
what used to be everyday. Harnessing this skill
and focusing it is the key to creating an innovative
and smart economy. It can begin with you.
Love some feedback folks…
Courtesy of @belleirene a visual representation of the song “Total Eclipse of the Heart”
In TRIZ this is often called Functional Analysis. The exercise is to describe the system, listing all the components and their interactions. You include all interactions whether they are positive, not effective (weak), too effective (strong) or negative. Getting all these interactions really helps define a system in a honest and useful manner. It is probably unique to TRIZ and I have found it much more powerful that a simpler Root Cause Analysis. You use the Subject-Action-Object type expressions to allow you to move quickly to using those tools to start problem solving.
This diagram misses a bit of colour though. In Functional Analysis I use Blue for Positive Interactions and Red for Negative. A dashed line is a weak interaction and a thick or double line is for a overstrong interaction. The bit of colour makes it easier to visualise and to remember.
Great tool and I think I have a fun way to introduce it now.
The original…everyone sing along…
Bonnie Tyler – Total Eclipse of the Heart
Though not strictly related to related to Innovation or Innovation in Ireland the new Coraline movie is just fantastic. I brought my eldest daughter along to see it in 3D and was not disappointed in the least. The story is genuinely excellent, from the pen of the comic writer / novelist Neil Gaiman. The film itself is a great piece of film making. I heard it described as “the Shining for kids” and that is probably not that far away from the truth. It is much, much better than The Nightmare Before Christmas 
Remember that Genrich Altshuller wrote numerous works of science fiction published under the pseudonym Genrikh Altov.
Neil Gaiman was number 40 on this years Fast Company most creative people list. His new book The Graveyard Book
See Coraline in 3D.