SIT essentials

What is SIT essentially?

Essentially in SIT an object is teared down into its parts, one or more of its parts are manipulated in some way, all parts are then put together again and finally we look if the new object has some value.

Nature is doing this several billion years already.

Nature shows the limits and power of SIT. Nature never invented the wheel as we know. But nature innovated the human brain as it is now. SIT is capable to extract all innovations that are potentially already within the object. Innovations outside the object will not show up.

So if you want to innovate your product portfolio and keeping it recognizable, doable and controllable use SIT.

If you want to go beyond put yourself in a tree, elephant or amoeba and let them solve your design problem.
But don't be surprised if the market needs some centuries to appreciate your product.

Systematic Inventive Thinking: innovation for SMEs!

I pick up my blog again with SIT.

The most important thing of SIT is that we are going to be innovative with products, services, techniques and knowledge we already possess. We don't need extra knowledge or techniques from an outer source such as an university or a knowledge institute like TNO.

1. And that last one is a big advantage because innovation processes already involve some uncertainties. So eliminating language difficulties which may arise between us and universities and the sort is a good thing.
2. Another advantage is of course that we can develop innovative products and services within our own company where we have more control over the process which makes it faster and cheaper.
3. A third advantage is that the resulting innovative product or service has some similarities with our existing products or services which makes it more recognizable and therefor more acceptable for clients.

These three advantages make SIT very effective and efficient and especially suitable for SMEs (MKB) and self-employed (ZZP-ers).

So what I'm going to blog in the next weeks is practicing SIT. I'll just start with products and services that pop up with me. Be welcome to bring in your product or service. I'll be happy to look what SIT can make of it.

And you would make me very happy if you pick up the many opportunities that SIT can offer you and you start to innovate by yourself!

Why am I doing this?

Finally I start a blog. I like to write about innovation, inventing, thoughts that come up. I'm not a writer, I know more or less how to write but knowing and doing is not the same. So at first this blog will probably be a sort of journal for myself, where I can write down ideas that come up during the day.

May be later I'll learn to write and hopefully I can inspire you to use your brain for generating new ideas, or eventually you see an idea coming around that fits your needs or your interest. I'm always interested to elaborate further on ideas, so contact me. Sometimes an idea ends up in a real invention and sometimes a real invention ends up in a real product and sometimes a real product ends up in ..., etcetera.

Here we see already two difficulties:
1. Ideas come up in high numbers and there is simply no time to look at all of them in detail. Thats one of the reasons to write them down here, anybody who likes one of them can do with it what she likes.
2. It's a long run from an idea to a real product. Some people say an idea is nothing, an invention is a start, a product is something and with a desired product we are talking. But in the end without ideas no inventions and no products.

The idea is like the gene combination of an apple tree, the invention is the apple pit, the product is the apple tree and the desired product are the apples. So without apple genes no apples, but in between the tree first has to grow up.

Another problem with ideas, inventings, products is that it makes people lazy. The cave-dweller had to find the way back home by remembering landmarks or stars. Later the map, the compass and the clock was invented and now there is the tomtom. Tomtom users cannot read maps anymore, map readers cannot read compass and stars anymore and compass users cannot read stars anymore.

But the good thing on ideas are that ideas are just fun, inventing is fun, using your brains is fun. It is a sort of discovery of what can be invented just by using your brains. Imagine for example the time over lets say 1.000 or 10.000 years, nobody will argue that we do everything the same as now, so a lot of inventions have to be made by then.

So why not doing it right now? Everything needed is already available!