50 Useful Software on Innovation, Concept Mapping and Idea Management

Author: Umakant Mishra

Abstract:

Can any software help us innovating? Well a software may not help us directly in innovating but it can definitely help us in practicing any specific process of innovation, be it idea generation, idea management, concept mapping, problem analysis or idea presentation. There are many software which try to help us out while working through many such methods. The following is a list of 50 popular Innovation and Concept mapping software which are alive and usable.

Keywords: Innovation, Invention, Idea generation, concept mapping, idea mapping, free software, GNU/GPL, concept diagrams, idea storing, idea organizing, drawing software, graphics software,

Mishra, Umakant, 50 Usable Software on Innovation, Concept Mapping and Idea Management (December 24, 2011). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1976625 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1976625

http://ssrn.com/abstract=1976625

http://works.bepress.com/umakant_mishra/97

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256012273_50_Usable_Software_on_Innovation_Concept_Mapping_and_Idea_Management

Demonstrating contradictions in a Graphical User Interface

Author: Umakant Mishra

Abstract:

Designing a GUI is not so easy as it may appear to outside. The developer has to face many difficulties while improving the features of a GUI. In many cases improving one feature of a GUI results in worsening another feature of it, thus leading to a situation known as contradiction in TRIZ. Many such contradictions have been solved by different inventors in the past. We will demonstrate some important contradictions in this article and discuss alternative solutions for each contradiction. 

Keywords: TRIZ, Innovation, Inventive Problem Solving, Ideality, Software Contradiction, Inventive Principles, Inventive Standards, Standard Solutions, Inventive solutions, GUI, Graphical User Interface, GUI improvements, software inventions

http://www.triz-journal.com/archives/2010/06/03/

http://www.realinnovation.com/archives/2010/06/03/

http://ssrn.com/abstract=2272619

Mishra, Umakant, Demonstrating Contradictions in a Graphical User Interface (May 31, 2013), Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2272619  or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2272619

http://works.bepress.com/umakant_mishra/96

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256065316_Demonstrating_Contradictions_in_a_Graphical_User_Interface