Dynamic Innovation Enablement System Vector Architecture

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current innovation management systems lack specific functionality for competency-building, failing to enable users to practice new innovation-conducive skills, and often exclude non-specialist users, leading to reduced innovation capabilities within organizations and ineffective cross-domain innovation.

Innovation Solution

The Dynamic Innovation Enablement System (IES) employs a vector-based data structure architecture with n-dimensional compound vectors, a vector-based user interface, and a vector-based expert system to guide users in developing innovation competencies, facilitating the production of optimized innovative outcomes through competency modules, assessments, and collaborative work processes.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If conventional innovation management systems are used, then basic idea management is possible, but competency-building functionality is lacking and non-specialist users are excluded

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser inclusivityVSAvoidsystem functionality
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system provides a unified innovation management platform that serves multiple user types (specialists and non-specialists) with different competency levels through a single interface. The system delivers both idea management and competency-building functions, allowing users to progress from basic participation to advanced innovation activities without requiring separate systems or interfaces.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The system segments users into different competency levels and provides tailored guidance, assessments, and learning resources for each level. Non-specialist users receive structured competency-building modules while specialist users can access advanced features, allowing each user group to receive appropriate support without overwhelming the system complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Reliability

If comprehensive innovation training is provided to all users, then innovation competencies improve, but system complexity and implementation difficulty increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinnovation capabilityVSAvoidtraining system structure
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The training system dynamically adapts to each user's competency level, automatically adjusting the complexity and type of training provided. Users progress through structured competency modules that evolve from basic to advanced levels, with the system adapting content delivery based on user performance and engagement, thereby providing comprehensive training without requiring a static complex structure.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system provides preliminary assessments to determine user competency levels before assigning training modules. This preliminary action allows the system to pre-configure appropriate training pathways, reducing the apparent complexity by presenting users only with relevant training content rather than overwhelming them with all possible training options simultaneously.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Productivity

If vector-based data structure architecture is implemented, then data processing efficiency improves, but implementation complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata processing speedVSAvoiddata structure complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system replaces traditional scalar-based data processing mechanisms with vector-based data structures. This substitution enables parallel processing of multiple data points simultaneously, dramatically improving data processing efficiency for innovation analytics and user behavior analysis while the system abstracts the underlying vector mathematics to hide implementation complexity from users.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes the fundamental parameter representation from scalar values to vector structures, allowing multi-dimensional data (such as user competencies across multiple domains) to be processed as unified entities. This parameter change enables more efficient computations for innovation metrics while the system manages the increased data structure complexity through automated vector operations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS11315079B2Dynamic innovation enablement system
Publication Date: 2022.04.26 MILLER WILLIAM COX
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AI summary

A dynamic Innovation Enablement System (IES) that utilizes a novel n-dimensional vector-based data management system, in combination with a novel user interface and novel expert system, to speed up the efficiency of computer processing and real-time user application of data for selecting user interventions that optimize outcomes within the IES. The IES is a computer-implemented system for facilitating users to develop, practice and apply competency in innovation-conducive behaviors and techniques. The system has a user system and coupled to the user system, a server system, a data store and an innovation enablement system (IES). IES has a first module that includes information to guide users through a first set of tasks directed to developing competencies in innovation. IES also has a second module that includes information to guide users through a second set of predetermined tasks, including at least two tasks that together form an innovation process that directs a user towards producing an innovation. IES also has a third module that integrates the first module and the second module, wherein information about the users, generated utilizing one of the two modules, can inform and facilitate what the users input as information when utilizing the other of the two modules. In a further aspect, the IES employs vector matrix algebra to arrive at an ideal vector correlated to an innovation outcome.