Innovation

Innovation
Before we go back to talk about flow and peak efficiency, or even what peak efficiency should be. Let’s spare a post for one of my favorite topics.
Innovation.
What is innovation? Well, we will talk about an old topic, innovation is change. Change that is executed and leads to a difference to the positive in how things work or how people work. Specifically how they solve problems.
Innovation is a mindset, more than just processing change. Innovation solves problems. My favorite writer on innovation is Genrich Altshuller, he is regarded as the father of TRIZ (the theory of inventive problem solving). This is a systematic process of invention.
We will look at innovation at a systematic level using the works of Genrich Altshuller.
Generalizing Problems and Solutions
The primary findings of TRIZ research are as follows:
Problems and solutions are repeated across industries and sciences. By representing a problem as a “contradiction”, you can predict creative solutions to that problem. Patterns of technical evolution tend to repeat themselves across industries and sciences. Creative innovations often use scientific effects outside the field where they were developed.
Using TRIZ consists of learning these repeating patterns of problem and solution, understanding the contradictions present in a situation, and developing new methods of using scientific effects.
You then apply the general TRIZ patterns to the specific situation that confronts you and discover a generalized version of the problem.