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August 2009 Blog Posts (7)

Happy Birthday, Jacko!!!

I pay tribute to my teen idol on his birthday and what I find that Jacko and I have something in common. He is an inventor dude as well!

Yes, Michael Jackson has a US patent issued to his name!!! Have you have seen his video "Smooth Criminal" or atleast this "leaning"… Continue

Added by Bala Ramadurai on August 30, 2009 at 12:00pm — 1 Comment

12 Windows for a Project Manager and 6 Faithful Serving Men

I was attending a workshop on Project Management (yes you heard it right). I wanted to brush up my PM knowledge after working as a “consultant” for few years, and also look at the new dimension of effective PM using systematic thinking methods, especially simple TRIZ tools. I set my expectation before attending this program that the Project Management Body of Knowledge would have embraced something different to say the PM BOK (Body of Knowledge) is evolving, and the session is going to teach me… Continue

Added by Prakasan K on August 26, 2009 at 6:30pm — No Comments

On Cloud 9 - the ideal cloud

The trigger for this mini blog post is

http://www.capgemini.com/ctoblog/2009/06/the_ideality_of_the_cloud.php

Nice article on cloud computing. IFR for people stuck with an operating system (Linux or Windows) is no OS, but still we need the email, the apps and other functions.

So what is IFR for the cloud ? one that waters your plants, but doesnt exist.. :) one that will rain, but not block light.

in the virtual world, one that lets me communicate with… Continue

Added by Bala Ramadurai on August 25, 2009 at 8:30am — 2 Comments

TRIZ - key learning resources

Are you new to TRIZ - are you wondering where to begin - here are a few resources that you could look at:

TRIZ Books

Altshuller, Genrich (1973). Innovation Algorithm. Worcester, MA: Technical Innovation Center. ISBN 0-9640740-2-8.

Altshuller, Genrich (1984). Creativity as an Exact Science. New York, NY: Gordon & Breach. ISBN 0-677-21230-5.

Altshuller, Genrich (1994). And Suddenly the Inventor Appeared. translated by Lev Shulyak. Worcester, MA: Technical Innovation… Continue

Added by Dr Shankar MV on August 20, 2009 at 12:47pm — 1 Comment

Solution for the last mile problem - Successful innovation ideas

The success and failure of innovation is overly discussed. Just do a google (or binging) around, and you will be directed to zillions of articles with advices and experiences listed out with "n" factors of success and failure of innovations. However, have you ever noticed the success of innovation some time is really dependent on solving the “last mile problem”?

Consider the innovations happening in the alternative fueled cars, especially Electric Vehicles. Have you really seen any… Continue

Added by Prakasan K on August 14, 2009 at 11:30am — 1 Comment

Economic impact of increased US savings – Contradiction and opportunities?

An article published by McKinsey (March ’09) quarterly shows this interesting (to me at least) study on the increasing US consumer savings in the last couple of quarters. Well, in a time when we see the bad news all around, the tendency for the rest of us earning are naturally towards saving it for the rainy day ahead. Apparently this article also put some lights on the debt Vs income… Continue

Added by Prakasan K on August 11, 2009 at 5:00pm — No Comments

Commitment versus Compliance: A TRIZ Contradiction

Part 1

Case 1

Imagine this situation where you put together a bunch of mandates at various levels of management, till it reaches the last employee on knowledge capture or learning. May be you can just make a random metric based on contributions (you could complicate it by adding usage, pass through, linking, commenting, etc) to your organization’s knowledge base and give sufficient room to game for employees to have fun which anyway will happen!

Call it… Continue

Added by Murali Loganathan on August 11, 2009 at 2:25pm — No Comments

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