Richard
Platt is the former Intel Senior Instructor for Systematic
Innovation Methods and Corporate Innovation Program Manger.
Platt has
worked for the last four years with Intel IT’s Applied
Innovation
Group. Platt is an Innovation and TRIZ professional who is a
10-year veteran of Intel's R&D, Technology Development, IT and
manufacturing / operations side of many of Intel's different business
and technology groups.
His primary focus has been on the broad
scope of Innovation as it relates to methods, strategy, management,
infrastructure, economics, and the “psychology” and
“philosophy” of competition in all its forms while
enabling
and deploying Systematic Innovation Methods (usually referred to by its
Russian acronym of TRIZ) across the Intel
enterprise.
Richard holds two technological patents and received five divisional
recognition awards while working with Intel. In addition to serving as
an innovation master, he also acted as the president of the Intel TRIZ
chapter and conducted research into different systematic innovation
topics and methods.
Richard has a B.S. in Manufacturing Engineering and has completed
studies
toward and M.S. in Engineering Management. He started his career at
Boeing and piloted the use of Design for Manufacturability (DFM)
software in Intel; the tool is now standard for all board manufacturing
within that company.
Richard is also an accomplished Bonsai gardener.
He welcomes your comments and questions. To hear, download or read a
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