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Mark McGlinn, Founder of Ideaspeak
Mark McGlinn founded Ideaspeak in 2014 in a bid to harness his experience in food systems and processes with what he sees as an urgent need to reorient these in terms of health, wellbeing, and sustainability. Following more than twenty years of senior managerial experience in the food service sector, where he specialized in innovation management and systems capability enhancement, he now focuses on utilizing practices of innovation to create and support sustainable food systems. He promotes whole systems thinking and engages in a range of projects with businesses, governments and industry groups in order to address the food-related challenges of the twenty-first century.
Dr. Shuo-Kai Tsai, Associate of Ideaspeak
Dr. Tsai is an associate of Ideaspeak and holds a Doctorate in Engineering and Design from the University of Sussex with a specific focus on Innovation. He has gained his business experience through specialising in TRIZ with consulting/supporting roles in advising multinational client companies on: Innovation Forecasting, Strategy Planning, Problem Solving, Product Research and Development and Intellectual Property Analysis.
His passion for new and novel approaches to the many challenges facing both the public and private sector favours the use of open innovation, user-focused innovation, collaborative innovation, disruptive innovation and the use of new techniques for the design and development of effective, complete and sustainable solutions.
Dr Tsai’s continued research on TRIZ has allowed him to develop new adaptations of TRIZ that make it much easier for professionals from other disciplines to make use of and benefit from. He has named this approach to TRIZ BRIGHT.
Dr Tsai offers sound practical experience with a solid research background in Engineering. His work encompasses all aspects of innovation including product strategy, value management, product design, development and launch, commercialisation and lifecycle management (including PLM) and systems design and development.