Creativity Consortium-Panel on Computer-aided Innovation
The Monthly meeting of the Creativity Consortium
Wednesday May 27, 1998--6:15 PM to 9:30 PM
The Ontario Club, 30 Wellington St West, 5th Floor Commerce Court South
Toronto, Ontario
[Can't attend ? copies of the proceedings will be available in
June--embargoed till June 28th. call or email for details]
Topic: Panel on Computer-aided innovation-software that helps you see
patterns, manage knowledge, think and invent
Building a knowledge repository-does it aid in collaboration, insight
generation and speed up the concept to cash life cycle ?Jim Falconer a
researcher from Nortel (Northern Telecom-Canada's premier research
establishment) reports on his experiences in building a repository of
knowledge artifacts and an interactive
research and collaboration tool for a small consulting department within a
large communications solutions company. Jim talks about the particular
challenges faced by a geographically-dispersed knowledge-based enterprise
like Nortel in constructing and maintaining a corpus of knowledge and
innovation that is self-sustaining, dynamic and value-rich. The solution
relies heavily upon the ubiquity, extent and hypertext-based underpinnings
of the World Wide Web. In addition, all aspects of the inquisitive/
acquisitive behavior, interaction and knowledge management had to be
modeled into the solution for it to be both useful and engaging.
Can software programs help inventors, designers and engineers in creating
concepts for new inventions? IQ-Plus, a Canadian software company is one of
the several firms who have released new software based on the creativity
technique called TRIZ, a
process originally invented by G.S Altshuller in the 1960's. After it was
reviewed in the Wall Street Journal and Business Week, the TRIZ process is
now used by such well-known firms as: Kodak, Ford, Nortel, AMP, IBM, 3M,
Eli Lilly, Kimberly-Clark, Rand, Motorola, Rockwell, Saab, Xerox and
others. IQ-Plus software is unique in that it integrates several methods
including VA, QFD, TRIZ, TOC and the Coller method and others. Victor
Minin, an engineer, scientist and entrepreneur discusses his 12 years of
experiences in product innovation and solving engineering problems.
Come out and hear our experts or order the proceedings. Does it deserve all
the hype? What are some of the results? See a demo in action.
Panel Moderator: Walter Derzko, Director Brain Space and founder Creativity
Consortium.
Panelists: Jim Falconer, Nortel and Victor Minin, IQ Plus Corporation
Meeting Cost: $40 guests, $30 members, $20 full time students
Cash, cheque or AMEX
Proceedings: $42.50 (includes postage) if ordered in Canada
$37.50 US for all international orders Cheque (made out to the
Creativity Consortium)or Amex
For reservations or to order proceedings call (416) 588-1122
Walter Derzko
Director Brain Space
(formerly the Idea Lab at
the Design Exchange)
Founder Creativity Consortium
116 Galley Ave
Toronto, Ontario
Canada, M6R 1H1
(416) 588-1122
wderzko@pathcom.com