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Basic TRIZ and Systematic Innovation for Technology and Engineering
WHY TRIZ AND SYSTEMATIC INNOVATION?
During last 20 years, TRIZ-based Systematic Innovation has penetrated all major industries. World leading companies such as Procter & Gamble, Renault, Unilever as well as a number of smaller companies use TRIZ to solve both long-term and short-term problems and generate new concepts of products and services. In 2004, Samsung named...
Advanced TRIZ and Systematic Innovation for Technology and Engineering
ADVANCED TRIZ & SYSTEMATIC INNOVATION
This advanced training course is based on many years of experience with performing TRIZ training and consulting projects within diverse industries. It provides learning and mastering practical skills with advanced TRIZ techniques which are usually not learned during introductory and basic TRIZ training courses, and which...
Systematic Creative Imagination Development: Essentials and Techniques
INTRODUCTION
Probably, no one will argue that creative imagination is an essential part of success and personal development in the age of innovation. We all possess it, but do we use it to full extent? This course targets at providing an answer how to unlock your creative imagination and how to develop it.
You might ask, “There are already many courses...
Extended TRIZ and Systematic Innovation for Business and Management
Four-day Hands-on Practical Training and Certification
TRIZ & SYSTEMATIC INNOVATION FOR BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT
This unique four-day intensive hands-on course targets at acquiring and mastering skills with modern TRIZ and Systematic Innovation for Business and Management to increase creative and innovative performance of organizations and individuals. The course...
Basic TRIZ and Systematic Innovation for Business and Management: Overview and Essential Skills
INTRODUCTION
Quite often, we face problems which can not be easily solved since we either do not known a solution which can be used or completely lack a problem solving strategy. Such problems usually have one common feature: a conflict of demands. In addition, complex problems have many interrelated conflicts which block our path to a solution. In such cases we need...
Training In TRIZ, xTRIZ, Systematic Innovation, and Creative Imagination Development
During past decade TRIZ-based Systematic Innovation has been producing a considerable impact on businesses worldwide. Leading companies select TRIZ and Systematic Innovation to solve problems which demand innovative solutions, to cut costs in an innovative way, and generate concepts for new products and services in a systematic way to accelerate innovation and achieve innovative leadership.
We provide...
Services
Based on many years of experience of working with different organizations worldwide, we offer a range of services, which can be delivered independently of each other or as a part of our Strategic Technology and Business Innovation Program:
Half-day or one-day “Creativity Break” sessions
During these sessions based on a “full immersion” approach, a group...
Why TRIZ and Systematic Innovation?
In the recent past, ability to create new breakthrough and working ideas was considered as a gift, and innovation was difficult to manage. Now, the situation is changing. A major impact on redefining a strategy of innovation has been produced by TRIZ, a practical and systematic methodology of problem solving and new idea generation which quickly gained reputation as the...
Technosocial Competition
Valeri Sushkov
University of Twente
Computer Science Department
P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
The Netherlands
Published in The TRIZ Journal, February 1997. © copyright by the author, 1997
“Until the beginning of 1990s, worldwide competition was simple; manufacturers of “more, cheaper, and better” products win… Nowadays, however, competition is not like the good old days. We...
Four Views on TRIZ
Valeri Souchkov
Published in The TRIZ Journal, March, 1999
First, this article should not be regarded as scientific. The only idea it discusses is how to view on TRIZ. I found this issue extremely important, because there is a lot of misunderstanding of what TRIZ is, in particular, by those who encounter with TRIZ for the first time. The questions I hear over and over again (even from those who took...
Contradictions and System Thinking
In TRIZ, contradiction is one of the key concepts which lets us formulate problems
and guide towards really innovative ideas. A contradiction arises when two
mutually conflicting demands are put on the same system or a situation. This
happens quite often in our everyday lives. For instance, a hard drive in a portable
computer must be as small as possible to enable portability, but at the same time...
Root Conflict Analysis (RCA+): Structured Problems and Contradictions Mapping
Valeri Souchkov
ICG Training & Consulting
The Netherlands
valeri@xtriz.com
White paper, January 11, 2005
© 2005, V. Souchkov
Full paper presented at the ETRIA Conference TRIZ FUTURE 2005, Graz, Austria, November
11-13, 2005
INTRODUCTION
When solving inventive problems, we might face different initial situations:
1. A system or its certain components produces a negative effect: either it fails...
Skills and Tools to Support Productivity in Creative Work
Valeri Souchkov
ICG Training & Consulting
Enschede
The Netherlands
www.xtriz.com
valeri@xtriz.com
Introduction
The 20th century was an age of scientific and technological progress. New technologies
and scientific discoveries have reshaped the world and changed our standards of living.
And most of the changes happened due to innovations which penetrated all areas of
human activities.
Efficiency...
TRIZ and Systematic Innovation: New Tools for Business Creativity
TRIZforBusinessCreativity.pdf
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idéLAB: THE “DUTCH” TRIZ Experience
Valeri Souchkov
ICG Training & Consulting, Enschede, The Netherlands
www.xtriz.com
Jacques Stevens
Stevens Idé Partners, Enschede, The Netherlands
www.idepartners.nl
© V. Souchkov & J. Stevens, August, 2006
Abstract
In this article, we would like to present our “Dutch” experience with introducing
TRIZ to the Dutch market by creating collaboration between academia, engineering
design and...
Tags: Dutch, TRIZ EXPERIENCE
Application of RCA+ to Solve Business Problems
By Valeri Souchkov, Rudy Hoeboer and Mathijs van Zutphen
Edited version based on the paper presented at ETRIA TFC 2006 Conference in Kortrijk, Belgium, October 9-11, 2006.
Abstract
This paper presents a basic process for solving business and management problems using a combination of classical TRIZ and additional techniques to organize a systematic approach to all phases of the problem solving ...
Power Thinking Skills For Innovative Leadership
In the past, starting up and maintaining a new business was if not easier but much more secure: we
could invent something or produce a great business idea only once and enjoy obtaining benefits from
them throughout the rest of our lives. But today we live in a different world. Today we need to
continuously innovate if we want to maintain leadership – either we want to lead business or people.
It...
A Brief History of TRIZ
Sooner or later, almost everyone who seriously studies TRIZ and Systematic Innovation, starts wondering about a history of TRIZ: why there are so many TRIZ tools, what followed what, and how TRIZ has been evolving. Since a modern version of TRIZ has been developed by a really massive effort undertaken by many people during more than 50 years, it would be too difficult to mention every person who contributed...
TRIZ Introduction in Dutch
TRIZdeel4-constructeur1-2-2006.pdf
TRIZ_deel_3_constructeur_11-2005.pdf
TRIZ_deel_2_constructeur_10-2005.pdf
TRIZ_deel_1_constructeur_9-2005.pdf
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TRIZ: a Catalyst of Innovation
In May 2002, Samsung Corporation (South Korea) presented a Recognition Award to inventor Nikolai Shpakovsky for his invention, which saved the company Euro 100 million. However, Nikolai is not just an inventor or electronic engineer. His official title at Samsung is “TRIZ Expert”. 10 years ago, the word “TRIZ” was hardly known. And today, almost every engineer heard about TRIZ. But to hear...
Annotated List of Key TRIZ Components
Below is an annotated list of key TRIZ concepts and techniques, including complementary techniques developed, used or recommended by ICG T&C. The table presents those components which have proven to be successful in our practice.
Although there are several TRIZ schools worldwide which recently developed their own modifications of original Altshuller’s works or introduced their own techniques,...
Made With TRIZ
In 2004, Samsung Electronics officially stated that since 2001, the
use of TRIZ provided the company with total economic benefits of
Euro 1.5 billion. The most successful commercial product ever of
Proctor & Gamble, Crest™ Whitestrips™ was developed with TRIZ.
Thanks to TRIZ, Boeing Corporation designed a better refueling
tanker on the basis of 767 aircraft than similar aircraft of a
competitor,...
Breakthrough Thinking With TRIZ For Business and Management: An Overview
INTRODUCTION
Business and management innovation has always been among the most crucial drivers of success, but today it becomes clear that innovation is not luxury but necessity. The business world gets extremely dynamic and fast, information technology and global networking eliminate borders which used to keep businesses comfortable, the market demands better services, competition even between small...
Accelerate Innovation with TRIZ
Today, evolution of science and technology has reached tremendous rate. Major breakthroughs in sciences, technology, medicine, and engineering make our everyday life more and more comfortable. Today it is nearly impossible to find an engineer who does not use complex mathematical tools for formal modeling of design products, CAD systems for modeling and drawing, electronic
handbooks and libraries,...
