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Innovation and Invention
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Formulating new ideas for and applications of processes and products.
- Creative Thinking
- Employ unique analyses and generate new, innovative ideas in complex areas
- Reframe problems in a different light to find fresh approaches
- Entertain wide-ranging possibilities to develop unique approaches and useful solutions
- Understand the pieces of a system as a whole and possess a big picture view of the situation
- Integrate seemingly unrelated information to develop creative solutions
- Develop innovative methods of obtaining or using resources when insufficient resources are available
- Identify Opportunities
- Identify needs, wants, and problems as they are changing
- Seek out opportunities to develop and offer new products and services
- Seek out opportunities to improve, streamline, reinvent work processes
- Research and Development
- Analyze the failure of other projects as research for a possible new venture
- Conduct experiment and application
- Identify design trends
- Design a system, product, or service
- Technology Transfer
- Identify scientific research which has potential commercial value
- Analyze the consequences of societal or technological change
- Develop practical applications for the results of scientific research
- Apply newly created technology to new, innovative, productive uses
- Methods for the Creation and Improvement of Products and Processes
- Understand and apply lean six sigma methods for creation and/or improvement of products/processes
- Define problems that affect customer value and impact company financially
- Select and apply appropriate quantitative and qualitative techniques in applications in aerospace
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