Ask anybody who has ever even thought about filing a patent application for their invention: In which country would you want to protect it? Most likely, their answer would be the US, or China — [...]
Every business wants to innovate but a will alone isn’t enough. During a survey by Accenture, 96% of executive agreed that their long-term success depends on developing new ideas. However, only a [...]
One of the key concepts of TRIZ theory is the Ideal Final Result or IFR or simply an ideal solution. Before we move ahead, let me explain what is an Ideal Final Result as the three scenarios [...]
Almost every day, we see some company, a giant, specializing in its own domain, stuck in a bit of a pickle. The pickle could be some trouble with its research, its product optimization or any [...]
Back in 2002, P&G was contemplating ideas to make its Pringles Potato Crisps more interesting and innovative. In the brainstorming session, someone shared an idea of printing pop culture [...]
Morphological analysis is simply an ordered way of looking at things. ~Fritz Zwicky Morphological analysis is invented by Fritz Zwicky, a Swedish astrophysicist who used the morphological [...]
Do you know in 2008, an invention by a five-year-old on “Sweeping device with two heads” got patented? Some may consider this a shot in the dark, others may simply admit: an idea doesn’t need the [...]
Before Ford’s Model T was introduced in 1908, the 500 automakers in America were building customized Novelty cars only. Even though numerous automakers were there, the automobile industry was [...]
