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Feb
9
2011

Multi-disciplinary, cross-industry thinking breeds better problem solvers. Interesting points made in this article. As TRIZ says - someone, somewhere, has already solved your problem. It's repackaging the previous solutions in a new application area, that creates innovation.

BTW - the TRIZ course we put together with Dr. Ellen Domb, and offer through IAIUniversity.com, is a great jump-start into TRIZ. If you have anything to do with engineering of any kind, you are missing out on massive opportunities in reducing time to market, driving down costs, eliminating complexity, and leap-frogging your competition, if you aren't aware of and actively using TRIZ.

"Amazon.com (AMZN) Vice-President James Hamilton's schooling in computer data centers started under the hood of a Lamborghini Countach.

Fixing luxury Italian autos in British Columbia while in his 20s taught Hamilton, 51, valuable lessons in problem solving, forcing him to come up with creative ways to repair cars because replacement parts were hard to find. "It's amazing how many things you can pick up in one industry and apply to another," Hamilton, who has also been a distinguished engineer at Amazon since 2009, says in an interview."

www.businessweek.com/...tc2011028_786700.htm
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