Preface	5
	Foreword	7
	Table of Contents	9
	1 Introduction	13
	2 Integrated Innovation Management	17
	2.1 The Aachen Innovation Management Model AIM	19
	2.2 Innovation Portfolio	31
	2.3 Aachen Strategy Model for Product Innovation	34
	3 The InnovationRoadMap Methodology	37
	3.1 Requirements for the methodology	38
	3.2 The W-model: Structure of the IRM-Methodology	42
	3.3 Goal setting	48
	3.4 Future analysis	57
	3.5 Idea generation	78
	3.6 Idea evaluation	88
	3.7 Idea detailing	100
	3.8 Concept Evalution	107
	3.9 Implementation Planning	117
	3.10 Conclusions for the IRM Methodology	126
	4 Methods Description	129
	4.1 Scenario Management	131
	4.2 Quality Function Deployment (QFD)	136
	4.3 Intuitive- and Analogy-based Solution Finding	141
	4.4 TRIZ Methodology	147
	4.5 Laws of Technical Systems Evolution	166
	4.6 Bionics	177
	4.7 Portfolio Analysis	187
	4.8 Conjoint Analysis	201
	4.9 Technology Roadmapping	214
	5 Case studies	223
	5.1 SCHOTT Glas “How a manufacturer of materials became a provider of systems”	225
	5.2 Hilti AG “Strategic Exploitation of New Business Fields”	232
	5.3 SUSPA Holding GmbH “Developing existing markets, discovering new opportunities”	245
	5.4 Survey “MicroMed 2000+” “Discovering applications in growth markets”	258
	5.5 Neumag GmbH & Co. KG “Systematic innovation management as the basis for effectiveness in product development”	275
	5.6 Dräger Medical AG & Co. KGaA “Reorganization of the business process Innovation”	285
	Bibliography	303
	Appendix	329
	Appendix A Method Data Sheets	331
	Appendix B Selected tools of the TRIZ-Methodology	409
	Appendix C Product-idea data-sheet	433
	Appendix D EDEN™ as software platform to support the Aachen Innovation Model	437
	Index	445
	Editor and Authors	449