Inventive Jobs

If your interest is product development, but you don't want the hassle of running your own business, a good option is to license or sell your patents. Selling or Licensing your Offering (Sept 2026 Edition) offers a concise step-by-step approach to creating small income streams from your patents.

Resolving Problems (Sept 2026 Edition) is the most common job of inventors, engineers and researchers. This book provides a straight-forward algorithm for solving highly constrained, confusing and tangled problems. A method of causal analysis is presented which illuminates the interactions, object attributes and contradictions that make the problem hard. Methods are then given to simplify the product or service while resolving the problem. These methods work particularly well with team problem solving. Learning and applying these skills will give a solid foundation for all the other jobs that innovators do.

Whether we have an offering which is newly created or a legacy offering that needs to be overhauled, all offerings carry unnecessary burdens to the target market and to the business. Reducing Offering Burdens (Sept 2026 Edition) provides an algorithm for identifying these burdens and then removing them, thus simplifying the offering. A simple product with a simple user interface can have a major impact on both the market and the business. It costs less and simplifies the life of the customer. This is a must-have book for innovators and system architects.

Designing and Prototyping (Sept 2026 Edition) is a part of creating offerings, resolving problems and simplifying . An algorithm is provided for designing, prototyping and protecting your ideas.

Once we have chosen the target market, it is time to create a product that will meet their unique needs. In Creating Offerings (Oct 2026 Edition), we pull together many of the skills to understand market needs, determine the requirements that will delight the target market then design and prototype the offering.

Discovering Markets (Sept 2026 Edition) is about identifying what others cannot see. There are willing markets anxious to consume but unfulfilled. If you have read "Blue Ocean Strategy", you will understand that competing in existing markets fills the waters with the blood of competition. Yet, there is a whole ocean of markets where the sharks do not roam. The strategies contained in this book are designed to point you to new markets, market segments or to simply enlarge your brand.