Innovation - The phases

Let us decide Innovation as "Successful Exploitation of (New) Ideas".

Innovation has four phases, (a) Ideas (may remain in mind or may be expressed) (b) The way the idea is implemented (c) The context (different) in which the ideas are implemented (d) the (different from past) results it has produced.

The uniqueness can be in any of these four phases. However, all four phases need to be there for Innovation.

People have been categorizing Innovation (we humans have this tendency to categorize, classify, analyze everything) into:

Product Innovation; Process Innovation; Business Model Innovation; Marketing Innovation; - Everyone wants to ride the Innovation Bandwagon these days. And whatever these big experts with last millennium ideas come out - Enterprises latch on to them - thereby suffering once again...

The Innovation Consultants Leave the Enterprises NOWHERE... yet we keep on going to them!...

This is an interesting contradiction..

TRIZCON 2007

The Annual TRIZ Conference the TRIZCON 2007 started in Louisville, Kentucy today.

www.aitriz.org

interesting set of people are moving towards TRIZ, working on - how to use it.

People are moving towards integrating TRIZ with some of the other techniques of problem solving

It is interesting to see the major activity in TRIZ is happening more in ASIA... May be an indication of where we need more Innovation as actual work is happening more and more in Asia as Europe and US tend to move into coordinating or managing role....

Future is moving towards Asia - is that right?