The client challenge
Over the past 15 years, Systematic Innovation & TRIZ have been applied in many multi-national corporations. Highly innovative companies such as Samsung, Hitachi, Siemens and 3M have begun to report significant successes having applied blackswan’s Systematic Innovation methodologies to various parts of their business.
The objectives of the project:
- To introduce and promote the Systematic Innovation & TRIZ methodologies and techniques to local industry in Hong Kong
- To strengthen the innovation potential of Hong Kong’s SMEs through training and mentoring in the use of structured problem analysis and methods for generating breakthrough ideas
- To improve the local awareness of Intellectual Property and how to use it as a key lever for competitive advantage
- To disseminate best practice use of the customised methodology to industry throughout Hong Kong
- To enable companies to quickly learn the basics of the methodology and to efficiently implement it into their working practices
- To generate a number of real case study examples of successful application of the methodology within the eight companies
The blackswan solution
The pilot programme introduced Systematic Innovation & TRIZ to the eight pilot companies through intensive taught sessions and hands-on workshops over a period of nine months.
The sessions were run by blackswan’s CTO, Darrell Mann and HKPC consultants. Each company received three, three-day training sessions covering Introductory, Intermediate and Advanced level Systematic Innovation & TRIZ. The client outcome
Throughout the duration of the project the implementation team has seen a great deal of progress from all the companies involved in the ITF sponsored programme.
From the eight companies that participated in the programme:
- A considerable number of patentable ideas were generated
- Half-a-dozen of which and are currently in various stages of the patent application process
- A total cost savings of approximately HK$2.5 Million have been reported by the participating companies
- HK$15.5 Million of additional business has been generated as a direct result of the programme
