Dr Shankar MV's Blog (5)

I represented TRIZIndia in the recent conference on Invention, Innovation & Technology held at Kolkata 19-21 Jan. The conference was dedicated to Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray (P.C. Ray) who was a great Chemist Innovator and Entrepreneur - he started the Bengal chemical industry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prafulla_Chandra_Ray)

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Look at your Problem through different lenses

The first step to come up with innovative ideas is to look at a problem innovatively i.e look at the problem through different lenses. We tend to look at a problem from only one angle - but how to trigger our mind to look at it from different angles ? Try asking the question what would X do - X could be Steve Jobs or Buddha or Don Quixote or Gandhi or your own Grandfather or Mother-in-law - the idea is to bring a new…

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I had the opportunity to address the CII Karnataka Innovation Forum last week. I spoke about the Challenges in growing ideas into innovation. I outlined the Innovation FlowTM Framework and gave a quick intro to TRIZ-based Innovative Problem Solving. There was good interest from the Innovation forum to learn more about TRIZ.. I plan to do a one-day innovation workout for them next.

As a materials scientist, I constantly look for breakthrough in new materials that enable technology to move up the evolutionary curve. I present here two recent materials innovation that enable cleaner batteries. The electrode of the battery is conventionally a rigid solid - but this is no longer true.



(a) MIT invent ecofriendly 100%-liquid… Continue

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