Innovative People

Jack Hipple star Proven Solver

Jack Hipple Jack Hipple is a veteran of the practical side of industrial innovation, having led the Discovery Research program at Dow Chemical as well as significant new product development efforts at Ansell Edmont and Cabot Corporation. He is a Certified TRIZ specialist and Inventive Problem Solving trainer for the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, and the World Future Society. He has also presented workshops for PDMA and IIR.

He led a major published study of failed corporate innovation programs which has also been the basis for workshops and training.

Jack is uniquely certified in both Myers Briggs and Kirton KAI(R) assessments, allowing him to bring both a technical and psychological approach to industrial problem solving situations. He has led inventive problem solving workshops and training for many Fortune 500 companies since 2002 including the first major corporate implementation of TRIZ at BP/Amoco.