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

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.