Patent Document ID: 7533035
Application ID: 11282149
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A system of managing innovation, comprising: a computer processor; and computer accessible memory operably linked to the processor, wherein the memory stores instructions directing the at least one computer processor to perform the steps of: receiving data input from one or more sources; qualifying the data inputs, wherein the qualifying of the data inputs comprises: assigning a time to complete requirement factor to the data; assigning a resource impact factor to the data; assigning a serendipity factor to the data; assigning a feasibility factor to the data; assigning an overall worthiness of direction factor to the data; calculating a potential importance factor to the data by summing the time to complete factor, the resource impact factor, serendipity factor, feasibility factor, and overall worthiness of direction factor; ranking the potential importance factor of each of the input data; and abandoning any potential solution if the solution fails to exceed a predetermined potential importance factor threshold value; selecting at least one of the qualified data inputs; selecting at least one innovation technique, wherein the at least one innovation technique is selected from the group of categories comprising solution finding, direction finding, strategic development, and intelligence and communication; applying the at least one innovation technique to the selected qualified data input; determining potential solutions based on the result of applying the at least one innovation technique to the selected qualified data input; testing the potential solutions by applying (a) a first test to determine any further development possibilities or development problems and (b) a second test comprising: assigning at least one factor to the potential solution, determining a numeric rating for the at least one factor, calculating an average of the numeric ratings for each factor, and ranking the solutions based on the calculated numeric average of the factors of the potential solutions; displaying the second test in an analog graph, wherein the analog graph comprises a meter needle that is positioned to the left or right of a scale indicating a value; selecting at least one of the potential solutions based on the results of the testing of the potential solutions; storing the selected potential solutions in a database; and implementing the selected potential solutions.