Bibliografía. Indice

Chapter 1: Invention: An Attemp to Improve the World. Chapter 2: Understanding Inventions: A Brief Introduction to the System Model. Chapter 3: Understanding Patents: An Application of the System Model. Chapter 4: System Interfaces: How the Elements Work Together. Chapter 5: System Control Points: Where to Aim the Silver Bullets. Chapter 6: Outside the Box: Developing Skills for Creative Thinking. Chapter 7: Seeing the Outlines of the Box: Discovering the Boundaries of a System. Chapter 8: Inventor´s Luck: A System Perspective. Chapter 9: The Three Magicians: Tools for Flexible Perspective. Chapter 10: Imagination Development: Seeing the World beyond Present-Day Constraints. Chapter 11: The S Curve: Dynamics of System Thinking. Chapter 12: A Stage of System Evolution: Synthesis. Chapter 13: A Stage of System Evolution: Early Growth. Chapter 14: A Stage of System Evolution: Distribution Buildup. Chapter 15: Growing Up: A Paradigm Shift within the System. Chapter 16: Infrastructure Innovations: Timing is Everything. Chapter 17: Infrastructure and Growth: Zooming in on the Micro Level. Chapter 18: A Stage of System Evolution: Efficiency. Chapter 19: Payload Evolution: From Physical to Virtual. Chapter 20: The Web is Dead: Abandoning Documents and Files in Favor of Information Streams. Chapter 21: Deconstructing Luck: Factors Affecting the Success of a System. Chapter 22: Seeing the Invisible: The System behind the New Internet. Chapter 23: The Book Electric: A Scenario of E-Book Evolution. Chapter 24: Payload Overload: Managing the Ever-Increasing Flows of Information. Chapter 25: Anticipating Control Problems: The Telegram before the Train. Chapter 26: System Efficiency: Solving Detection Problems to Improve Control. Chapter 27: Stages of System Evolution: Deep Integration. Chapter 28: Choosing the Right Problem: Matching Innovation Targets with Stages of System Evolution. Chapter 29: Tech Battles: Discovering System-Level Competitive Advantages. Chapter 30: TiVo versus VCR: A Detailed Application Example of the Tech Battle Technique.