Innovative genius: the innovative mind at work

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An analysis of interviews conducted with eight scientific and engineering innovators (each separately profiled in related articles) reveals that their greatest satisfactions are in understanding and creating and not in the gain of rewards. Organizations need to strengthen innovation in order to improve quality and gain market share, but this requires an understanding of the cognitive processes and character of innovators. This includes realizing that innovators are curious, driven, confident, hard-working, more inclined to investigate problems with broad implications and tending to see problems as a whole or in systemic terms, subsequently investigating details as components of the whole. As ideas gestate, innovators try them out on their peers and students. Disagreement with or failure in an idea are stimuli to further investigation and problem solving. Organizations need to provide innovators with a supportive environment while providing others with a encouraging framework for innovation.

Cover Story, Engineering, Creativity, Human Factors, Strategic Planning, Analysis, Requirements Analysis, Attitude

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How Israeli engineers improve U.S. weaponry

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The F-4E Phantom jet is one example of older US technology being updated and improved by Israel. The 30-year-old fighters have been extensively modified and equipped with the latest electronic systems. The plane now has greater aerodynamic stability and an adapted integrated system that is an upgrade of that used by the more advanced F-16. The heart of the avionics upgrade is the Elbit EMC-84 computer, which continuously updates the pilot with only selected information appropriate to the moment, such as in the middle of combat. Israel has become a master at making do, since its technical superiority is hindered by economic restraints. The country already spends one-third of its GNP on defense, more than any other nation. Most of the modifications Israel makes are in the way of simplifying servicing and the creation of innovative modular board systems. Universal conscription helps to keep Israel's engineers in touch with the way machines act in the field.

Israel, Weapons industry, Performance improvement (Computers), Military, Performance Improvement, Enhancements

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