Measuring Inventive Performance of R&D Teams

As any science on progress, there is no serious claim of mastering a process that is not carrying its own legitimized means of being measured. TRIZ world is now becoming a stable and progressing community where contributions of various levels, nature and depth will undoubtedly continue to appear. How can we contribute to its performance, how can we detect what is lacking and investigate in TRIZ world, new areas of contribution?This paper proposes an investigation of the existing means in creative measurement applied to industry and draw a state of the art and discussion regarding its limitations. Then the paper reports about a survey we built to understand R&D director's expectations regarding an eventual indicator. This survey yet concern a narrow spectrum of the entire industry because we first wanted to analyze results out of a smaller sample and either by extension or with larger survey compare industries, then complete and fine tune our first conclusions.