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We practice what we preach—never-ending continuous innovation of our training and tools.

We don’t claim to know all the answers. We regularly upgrade our best practices with: 1) ideas from users, 2) academic research discoveries, and 3) licensed content from commercial experts.

We are very disciplined in what we add to the Innovation Engineering curriculum and tools. Our upgrade process involves a small team of volunteers adapting and applying the new approach to their work. Their focus is an “engineering” mindset of finding the 20% who give 80% of the benefit. They are relentless in simplifying and streamlining new systems and methods. When innovation system improvements or tools are validated as reliable, they are incorporated into our best practices.

We aggressively embrace new methods, systems, and tools. As I write these words, members of the Innovation Engineering movement are gathered at the Eureka! Ranch to innovate on our project management system. They are using stimulus from experiences, academic research, and other systems to ignite ideas for how we can further accelerate development projects.

We believe that learning how to innovate smarter and faster is not a competition. We encourage our students, both on and off campus, to experience every innovation class and tool they can find. We have designed our innovation systems to make them work well with others. Within our community we have many organizations that have painlessly integrated Innovation Engineering with 6 Sigma, Lean, Lean Start Up, Design Thinking, Business Model Programs, and Phase Gate systems. We believe in collaboration. As Ben Franklin said, “We must all hang together or most assuredly we will all hang separately.”

Never-ending, continuous innovation on Innovation Engineering systems means that, while this book details the state of the art at this time, I anticipate that this book will be regularly updated with the latest learning. In the short term, you can keep up with new learnings by signing up to receive our blog. You can find it by going to innovationengineering.org/news.