INNOVATION TECHNIQUES

INNOVATION TECHNIQUES

1. CONCEPTS

   • Data : Qualitative and quantitative observations.
     • Qualitative and quantitative
   • Information : Data transformed into relevant and purposeful way to enhance user understanding
     • Relevant and purposeful
   • Knowledge: Information combined for interpretation and reflection to assist the user in making decisions that lead to innovation context.
     • For research and development process

2. INNOVATION

   • Definition
     • A process that feeds from diversity and multidisciplinary and requires scientific, technological, organizational, financial and commercial activities.
   • MYTHS AND REALITIES
     • MYTHS
       • Innovative companies are innate for improving.
       • Innovators are successful
       • Research and Development programs are the key for innovation.
       • There ´s not innovation whitout imagination.
     • REALITIES
       • Innovation requires a culture that encourages risk, reward success and failure is not penalized to much.
       • Innovation is a process perfectly systematic
       • The vast majority pray to heaven that nothing changes and follow us as they know It is common that innovators rarely take advantage of the economic benefit of its Innovation
   • TYPES
     • INCREMENTAL
       • Changes aimed at increasing the functionality of products, processes, services or methods
         • Adapting a product
         • Introduction of new components or features of a product or process
         • Marketing strategy adapted
     • RADICAL
       • Breaks with what is established, are innovations that create new products or processes can not be understood as an evolution of the existing
         • New Product.
         • New Method
         • New Market opening
         • New Suppliers
         • HIGH RISK

3. INNOVATION MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES

   • OPERATIONAL OBJECTIVES
     • Systematize and Structure the design and product development Process
     • Design Product acoording with customer needs
     • Desing product to value contribution for customer and company
     • Reduce time to market.
   • STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES
     • Contibute with advantage to increase competitiveness of company
     • Ensure Product success
     • Ensure rentability of bussiness at long and midle term.
     • Increase Know-how within company.
   • EXAMPLES
     • Oriented to the conception and design
       • Creativity Techniques (CT)
       • Theory of inventive problem solving (TRIZ)
       • Virtual Reality (VR)
       • Quality Function Deployement (QFD)
       • Funtion Analysis System Technique (FAST)
       • Value Analysis (VA)
     • Oriented to Engineering and Development.
       • Concurrent Engineering (CE)
       • Computer aid Design (CAD/CAE)
       • Design for Mounting and Assembly (DFMA)
       • Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA)
       • Rapid Prototype (RP)

4. CREATIVITY TECHNIQUES

   • DEFINITION
     • It is a technique based on free and informal exposure of all the ideas around a theme or problem raised. It helps to stimulate creativity.
   • MORE COMMON
     • Brainstorming
     • Six question method
     • Lateral Thinking
     • Morphological Analysis
     • Fresh eyes Technique
     • Synectics