Thursday Linkfest
- EgoLock. When a executive makes a bad decision and refuses to listen to better ideas until the bitter end.
- The most horrifying torture devices in history. Yes, I know – ick. But it is a kind of innovation history. btw: the pictures are of the devices, so it’s only gross and scary in your imagination.
- History of the Internet. Interesting visually animated history of the Internet.
- Seattle Presentation Camp. Planning is underway, and April 4th is the tentative date. If you have sessions you want me to do, want to help or have ideas, go here.
- TRIZ – The theory of solving invention problems. Heard about this again recently from a spate of different people. It’s the sort of thing I usually hate, but I don’t know enough about it yet to have an honest opinion.
- Showcase of world transit maps. I love this stuff, and my friends over at Seattle’s Design Commission studio have an exhibit up now on great maps of transit systems.
On the subject of TRIZ, within my organisation it is central to our innovation process. We have used other methods in the past and have integrated some of these into our process. Overall, TRIZ provides a very powerful approach/framework/method but does have a high entry cost and can easily be applied badly such that it can undermine your best efforts. It’s greatest power I believe is the systematic approach it brings to the whole innovation process.