TRIZ For Dummies

Use TRIZ to unlock creative problem solving

Are you new to TRIZ and looking for an easy-to-follow guide on how you can use it to enhance your company's creativity, innovation and problem-solving abilities? Look no further! Written in plain English and packed with tons of accessible and easy-to-follow instruction, TRIZ For Dummies shows you how to use this powerful toolkit to discover all the ways of solving a problem, uncover new concepts and identify previously unseen routes for new product development.

An international science that relies on the study of patterns in problems and solutions, TRIZ offers a powerful problem-solving and creativity-generating solution for companies looking to promote innovation, especially in the face of having to do more with less. Inside, you'll find out how to successfully apply this problem-solving toolkit to benefit from the experience of the whole world--not just the spontaneous and occasional creativity of individuals or groups of engineers with an organisation.

• Learn to think like a genius with TRIZ

• Discover the benefits of TRIZ as a tool for businesses

• Find fun and simple exercises for putting TRIZ into practise

• Benefit from industry examples of where TRIZ has worked--and how

With the help of TRIZ For Dummies, you'll get the skills needed to see the wood for the trees and solve complex problems with creativity, ingenuity and innovation.

Autorentext

Lilly Haines-Gadd runs the hugely successful TRIZ innovation and problem solving consultancy Oxford Creativity. She develops and delivers training programmes and facilitates problem solving workshops for many major organisations around the world, including Rolls-Royce, BAE SYSTEMS, Saint Gobain, Sanofi, the IET, Highways England and Oxford University.

Zusammenfassung
Use TRIZ to unlock creative problem solving Are you new to TRIZ and looking for an easy-to-follow guide on how you can use it to enhance your company's creativity, innovation and problem-solving abilities? Look no further! Written in plain English and packed with tons of accessible and easy-to-follow instruction, TRIZ For Dummies shows you how to use this powerful toolkit to discover all the ways of solving a problem, uncover new concepts and identify previously unseen routes for new product development. An international science that relies on the study of patterns in problems and solutions, TRIZ offers a powerful problem-solving and creativity-generating solution for companies looking to promote innovation, especially in the face of having to do more with less. Inside, you'll find out how to successfully apply this problem-solving toolkit to benefit from the experience of the whole worldnot just the spontaneous and occasional creativity of individuals or groups of engineers with an organisation.

• Learn to think like a genius with TRIZ
• Discover the benefits of TRIZ as a tool for businesses
• Find fun and simple exercises for putting TRIZ into practise
• Benefit from industry examples of where TRIZ has workedand how With the help of TRIZ For Dummies, you'll get the skills needed to see the wood for the trees and solve complex problems with creativity, ingenuity and innovation.

Inhalt
Introduction 1

About This Book 2

Foolish Assumptions 3

Icons Used in This Book 3

Beyond the Book 4

Where to Go from Here 4

Part I: Getting Started with TRIZ 5

Chapter 1: Going from Zero to TRIZ 7

Getting to Know TRIZ 8

Increasing Ideality 8

Uncovering patterns in human creativity 10

Learning to think in the abstract 11

Connecting conceptual thinking with your knowledge and experience 13

Going beyond your own experience 14

Thinking functionally 15

Starting Your TRIZ Journey 16

Getting a handle on the TRIZ tools 16

Reapplying proven knowledge to deliver innovative new solutions 17

Modelling problems conceptually 19

Supercharging your thinking 20

Mastering TRIZ 22

Putting the tools together in the TRIZ problemsolving process 22

Innovating with others by sharing solutions 24

Cultivating the motivation for innovation 24

Being humble and looking like a genius 26

Chapter 2: Understanding the Fundamental TRIZ Philosophy 27

Thinking TRIZ 28

Picturing TRIZ's beginnings 28

Standing on the shoulders of giants or reinventing the wheel? 29

Understanding the TRIZ Philosophy 30

Learning to think conceptually 30

Reapplying proven knowledge to solve problems 32

Getting everything you want without changing anything 34

Developing confidence 35

Being Systematic and Creative 36

Using TRIZ processes for understanding and solving problems 36

Thinking freely 37

Challenging assumptions 37

Part II: Opening Your TRIZ Toolbox 39

Chapter 3: Solving Contradictions with the 40 Inventive Principles 41

Uncovering and Understanding Unresolved Conflicts 41

Spotting contradictions and seeing how they're resolved 42

Understanding the two types of contradiction 44

Reapplying other people's genius solutions 44

Solving Technical Contradictions 46

Improving imperfect solutions with a little help from your friends 48

Using the Contradiction Matrix 48

Getting to Grips with Physical Contradictions 53

Resolving Physical Contradictions 54

Clever Tricks to Outsmart Contradictions: Using the 40 Inventive Principles 56

Applying the 40 Inventive Principles to real problems 56

Digging for buried treasure in the right places 58

Chapter 4: Applying the Trends of Technical Evolution 61

Looking More Closely at the Trends 62

Discovering the 8 Trends 65

Charting future product directions 69

Achieving a system's ultimate destiny 73

Applying the Trends 74

Listening to the voice of the product 75

Using the Trends to develop a nextgeneration system 76

Moving systems forward and knowing when to go back 78

Applying the Trends More Generally 79

Increasing Ideality 79

Transition to the SuperSystem 79

Increasing System Coordination 79

SCurves 80

Using the Trends to Create Strong Patents 80

Strengthening and ringfencing your own patents 80

Leapfrogging competitors' technology 81

Chapter 5: Improving Ideality by Using Resources 83

Understanding the Ideality Equation: How TRIZ Defines Value 84

Defining benefits 84

Defining costs 86

Defining downsides 86

Putting the Ideality Equation together 87

Understanding the Links Between Benefits, Functions and Solutions 89

Thinking Resourcefully 90

Understanding resources and where to find them 91

Learning how to hunt for resources 92

Getting what you want using what you have 95

Embedding resource thinking into everyday life 96 **Chapter 6: Using the TR...