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Innovation

Innovation is a necessary element in solving any important problem quickly that too at a low cost. Inventive thinking is at the heart of innovation.

Practical approaches to create innovation in daily life and work life.

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Innovation concepts: Basic concepts on creation of innovative ideas and products.

Inventive principles: Based on which practical innovation can be created.

Systematic innovation: Creating innovative ideas or products systematically.

Innovations around us: Highlighting remarkable instances of innovation around us in common life.

Analysis of Real life problem solving by Other way round inventive principle - getting aware of the possibility

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Two daily life examples of application of Other way round inventive principle are highlighted. One of the two is analyzed in detail to arrive at the inventive solution just by Question, analysis, answer technique without applying any inventive principle directly.

Goal is to show how a common person can reach an inventive solution without being aware of inventive principle used and thus become conscious about the inventive possibilities...

Real life problem solving by Inventive Principle of Flexibility - Work from home model

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If flexibility is introduced, greatly positive results happen helping to solve a serious problem. Principle of flexibility may be used as an inventive principle if it creates positive results for the decision makers and the persons affected by the decisions but creates minimal harm, preferably only positive results, to the environment surrounding the decision maker...

Innovation in a forest

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It was a short rise up the hill and the beautiful little bungalow lay serene at the top. After an open flat space in front the ground dropped stage by stage way below to the thin silver strand of a mountain river. The well wooded hill went up at the back providing deep green cover...

Ideal Final Result or IFR, a breakthrough innovation concept

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Ideal Final Result or IFR is the target solution to a problem that would remove all negative aspects without introducing any new drawback while preserving all the advantages of the old system. How much cost for this effort would IFR allow? IFR dictates that the all advantage no disadvantage solution must be achieved at zero additional cost. Though it seems impossible to achieve, if you set such a goal, you will be forced to reject ordinary easy pathways and strive towards the highest goal that can be imagined...

Inventive principle "local quality" in daily life problem solving

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Adapt the individual properties or parts of the object to the required local conditions. The first step of using an inventive principle is to understand it by identifying examples or cases where the principle could have been applied. The principle most probably has been applied unknowingly, but still it becomes clear to you that this is an example of application of the specific principle...

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