InnovationSIG – Thursday after work – How to Invent

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IITPSA Members attending this event will earn CPD / LLL points
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Speaker: Wayne Mallinson
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Topic: How to Invent
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Date and Time:  9 March 2017 from 17h30 to 19h30 (Please note that this meeting is the second week of the month).
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Location: Morganhof Room, Bon Hotel Conference Centre, 546 16th Road, Constantia Park, Halfway House, Midrand
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A key part of innovation is how to invent.  Innovation occurs when an invention is brought into valued use. As fortune would have it, there are already existing tried-and-tested systematic ways to invent improvements, breakthroughs and even new products, services, and business models.

Incremental innovation is the most commonly used improvement approach used today by organisations. This approach is part of continuous improvement. The approach takes existing knowledge within an area in the same industry, and applies this knowledge to gain improvement.  However there are still better innovation methods that can be taught. Higher-value innovation approaches use knowledge from two or more areas in the same industry, and tend solve contradictions rather than utilise weaker compromises or trade-off solutions. Still better innovation approaches utilise systematic innovation.
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Solving inventive problems systematically can be learned or taught. The invention process can be taught as specific steps and activities. Continued use of these steps and activities for different invention or problem-solving opportunities, grows one’s mental and practical ability to innovate.  This ensures that one’s innovation skills improve significantly. Organisations which train workers in systematic innovation approaches increase the number, quality, and value of innovations within their industries.
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Wayne will take invention examples from the construction, agriculture, and software industries and bring to light the underlying reasons why these innovations work.  Come prepared with your own problem to solve or invention idea.  Progress your own problem solution or invention as Wayne leads you through some of the steps and shows you their power.
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Speaker Biography
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Wayne studied geology and became a mining geologist in the mid-seventies to mid-eighties.  He then became a software tester, manager, trainer, company owner, director and shareholder ongoing.
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His passion is to create good jobs in South Africa and to share the valuable knowledge that he has gained along the way.  He is an avid student of systematic innovation and has in the past two years, attended two international systematic innovation conferences (Berlin and Beijing), and presented at one of them.  He currently is responsible for teaching systematic innovation approaches on behalf of Novation Now, his company.
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