With a much anticipated and needed vacation coming to an end I thought I would deliver on my personal promise and write a short article in order to better organize my 6s thoughts, which have been nothing less than tumultuous lately.

A complete, semi-automated excel spreadsheet that helps identify, track, and mitigate a complete battery of possible and potential risks that can compromise your deliverables and deadlines. 

While there’s lots of free information available on the Internet regarding the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving some of you have been asking for some book lists to read over the summer holidays.  TRIZ is a methodology and model-based technology for generating innovative ideas and solutions for problem solving. It provides tools and methods for use in problem formulation, system analysis, failure analysis, and patterns of system evolution (both 'as-is' and 'could be').

What’s up with all this certification anyways and does it really matter?  Ever since Motorola came out with their Six Sigma initiative back in the eighties (now this was innovation wasn’t it – the ability to reinvent a company by getting everybody to speak the same language but I digress) and Welch evangelized it, I’ve been wondering if this Six Sigma thing isn’t just a flash in the pan.