You could say it doesn’t take much to make me happy, because I was thrilled to see TRIZ (the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving), an innovation methodology, featured in an article by BusinessWeek ...

THE old Russian problem-solving method known as theory of inventive problem-solving or TRIZ in short extols innovative thinking among its practitioners. Large conglomerates such as Samsung found ...

TRIZ (pronounced “trees”) is the (Russian) acronym for the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving – a methodology for systematic innovation. It was developed in the former Soviet Union beginning in the ...

TRIZ, an acronym for a Russian phrase loosely translated as the “Theory of Inventive Problem Solving,” has received little mention in Machine Design over the years. There were half a dozen articles in ...

In my consulting practice, innovation challenges that dogged teams having very good and experienced engineers for months or even years were resolved in a matter of days or hours. It was not magic; we ...

Identify the specific problem that you have. You need to get to the root cause of the problem. It often calls for asking “why?” many times, until you found that root cause. Find a “generic” TRIZ ...

Rigorous methods to foster creativity? Should we believe in them? Most techniques are disappointing or at least random in their results. However, the TRIZ method is an exception, probably because it ...