The Body of Knowledge
The 48 Innovation Engineering Skills

This is the list of the 48 skills that make up the Innovation Engineering body of knowledge and the four Innovation Engineering college courses.  Each of these skills has 2 to 4 sub-skills that make up the skill.  This list is being continuously optimized based on feedback from the Innovation Engineering community of users and academics.

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Innovation Engineering Skills are utilized for MUCH MORE than simply new products & services.  It’s a new mindset for managing and leading the organization.  It’s a method for increasing speed and decreasing risk with everything - Meetings, Processes, Decisions and Operations.  Check out the 60 Ways Innovation Engineering Black Belts have applied their skills in expected ways to help their organizations.

CREATE 
1. Meaningful Uniqueness 
2. Stimulus & Diversity
3. Drive Out Fear 1.0
4. Insight & Market Mining
5. Patent 1.0 - Tech Mining 
6. Future Mining
7. Create Sessions – Spark Decks
8. Check Lists, Matrices & I Engineering
9. Create Sessions - Leadership
10. Lateral Thinking Techniques
11. Triz
12. Problem Solving Sessions 


COMMUNICATE 
1. Customer & Problem  
2. Benefit Promise
3. True Proof
4. Complete Ideas - Synergy  
5. Ideas to Paper Free Writing 
6. Clarity - Name and Headline
7. Advanced Benefit Promise 
8. Secondary Proof
9. Patent 2.0  - Tech Translation & ®
10. Communication Translations
11. Proactive Selling
12. Meaningful vs. Mindless Marketing

COMMERCIALIZE
1. Drive Out Fear 2.0
2. Fermi Estimating
3. Cost & Price Estimating
4. Sales Forecasting
5. Business Models
6. The Development Process
7. Plan, Do, Study, Act
8. Death Threat - ID & First Steps 
9. Fail FAST Fail CHEAP  1.0  - Experimentation 
10. Fail FAST Fail CHEAP  2.0  - Wisdom Mining/Problem Solving
11. Patent 3.0  -  Freedom to Practice Threats
12. Simultaneous Engineering

SYSTEMS
1. Create Session Design
2. Create Session Leadership
3. Project Coaching
4. Management Coaching  – Systems & Pipeline
5. Advanced Tech & Insight Mining  - Wisdom Mining & Interact
6. Patent 4.0  - Provisional Patent Writing 
7. Cultural Change System
8. Forensic Analysis for Root Causes
9. Systems & Department Integration
10. Innovation Supply Chains Inside 
11. Innovation Supply Chains Outside
12. Proactive Leadership