TRIZ For Dummies

Learn to:

• Enhance your company's ability to innovate and create
• Uncover problem-solving techniques you had never considered
• Think like a genius

Put TRIZ tools to work to make your company more innovative

Looking for a way to improve your organisation's creativity, innovation and problem-solving capacity? This easy-to-follow guide helps you use the remarkable TRIZ toolkit to discover all the ways to solve a problem, uncover new concepts and explore routes to new product development that you might never have seen. TRIZ can make you a problem-solving genius!

• Master the TRIZ mindset – explore TRIZ theories, methods and techniques; understand TRIZ philosophy; and learn to think conceptually
• Open your toolbox – learn how to spot and resolve contradictions, apply the trends of technical evolution, understand the Ideality equation and use the Prism of TRIZ to apply other people's solutions
• Elevate your mind – discover how to think like a genius using the TRIZ creativity tools, apply time and scale factors to your thinking, define the ideal outcome and make sensible decisions
• Be positive – understand how to restructure problems, share your enthusiasm and create a climate for innovation
• Tackle difficult problems – apply TRIZ problem-solving algorithms and make complex problems simpler with function analysis

Open the book and find:

• How ideality is determined
• Tips for learning to think abstractly
• Ways to outsmart contradictions
• The trends of technical evolution
• How to create novel inventions using existing technology
• Sensible decision-making advice
• Suggestions for strengthening intellectual property