Editor
Katie Barry
Editorial Panel
Gaetano Cascini
Gaetano Cascini has a Master's degree with honors in Mechanical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Machine Design at the Università di Firenze. He is certified 4th level TRIZ specialist by MA-TRIZ (certificate N.80). He has been a researcher at the University of Florence from 1999 to 2008. Dr. Cascini is the author of more than 80 papers presented at international conferences and published in authoritative journals, as well as the author of eight patents.
He is currently an Associate Professor at Politecnico di Milano, Faculty of Industrial Engineering, President of ETRIA (European TRIZ Association) and Chair of the "Computer-Aided Innovation" workgroup of IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing).
His research topics include:
- Methods and tools for inventive design:
• Scientific formalization and evolution of methods for inventive problem solving
• Modelling and analysis of the product cycle and Business Process Reengineering through process innovation
• Knowledge Management and text mining algorithms for patent analysis - Computer-Aided systems:
• Development of Knowledge-Based CAD tools
• Novel techniques of topological optimization
Ellen Domb, Ph.D.
Ellen Domb is the founder of the PQR Group and founding editor of The TRIZ Journal. TRIZ is Dr. Domb's 6th career: she has been a physics professor, an aerospace engineer, an engineering manager, a product line general manager, and a strategic planning/quality improvement consultant. In 2005, she was named by Quality Digest Magazine as a leading voice for the future, citing the integration of TRIZ for innovation in quality improvement and quality planning systems.
Ellen's client work, books, and articles are aimed at making it easy for people to learn TRIZ and to incorporate new thinking methods into their organizations. Clients include the Global 500 – Dow Chemical, Hewlett-Packard, 3M and others – and entrepreneurial companies with 3-50 employees.
Jack Hipple
Jack is principal, Innovation-TRIZ Associates, which provides training and consulting in breakthrough problem solving and organizational innovation. He is a chemical engineering graduate of Carnegie Mellon University with 30 years of industrial experience with Dow Chemical, Ansell Edmont and Cabot Corporation. At Dow he was responsible for both the corporate chemical engineering laboratory and was its Discovery Research director.
Since 1999, he has been consulting on the TRIZ (Theory of Inventive Problem Solving) methodology. He has led the evolution of TRIZ thinking and application into non-traditional areas such as organizational and management issues, as well as into unique technical areas such as human factors and consumer product design. He has also pioneered the combination of TRIZ with other creativity techniques such as CPS and Edward DeBono's tools and teaches a course at the University of South Florida on industrial creativity and innovation techniques. He also teaches inventive problem solving for both the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers
His clients include BP/Amoco, S.C. Johnson, Dow Chemical, GAF Roofing, National Starch, Mobil Chemical, Air Products, Bank of Montreal, Siemens (both in the U.S. and in Mexico), the U.S. Navy, Lockheed Marti and M&M Mars. He has taught TRIZ courses for the Altshuller TRIZ Institute, the European TRIZ Association, the American Creativity Association and the World Future Society.
He is a certified TRIZ specialist and is also a certified DeBono (Six Hats™ and Lateral Thinking™) user and certified MBTI™ and Kirton KAI™ trainer.
-Six Hats and Lateral Thinking are registered trademarks of APTT
-KAI is a registered trademark of M.J. Kirton
Prakasan Kappoth
Prakasan Kappoth (Prakash) is a Senior Manager working as a Systematic innovation facilitator and innovation consultant at MindTree Ltd., Bangalore, India; a mid-sized IT Service Company delivering techno-business solutions to clients across the globe. He helps MindTree's internal and external customers with identifying and solving technical and non-technical problems using structured innovation techniques (specializing in TRIZ).
In his capacity he is also working toward his Ideal Final Result (IFR) of "not doing his job - or others doing his job" by implementing continuous learning platforms for structured innovation and effective thinking focusing on engineers and leadership team. He recently started working with educational institutions (engineering and business) providing them hands-on systematic innovation workshops and frequent lectures to inculcate creative thinking for the future workforce (more ideal solution).
He has been in the IT industry for over 12 years; He has worked in a variety of technical domains including network management, industrial automation, image processing, consumer and embedded appliances, automotive and storage. He is an active student recently completed his MBA besides Dip in IT, Textile and Fashion Technology, and is now enrolled in a psychology course.
Prakash also represents ETRIA (European TRIZ Association) in India as a global coordinator, Member, Altshuller Institute of TRIZ Studies, and founded the TRIZ India Forum, a not-for-profit platform bringing together TRIZ enthusiasts from India.
Editorial Panel Members Emeritus
Marco de Carvalho, Ph.D., 2008-2009
Dr. Paul Filmore, 2008-2009
Dr. Michael S. Slocum, 1998-2008
James Kowalick, Ph.D., 1996-1998
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