TRIZ For Dummies

ISBN-13: 9781119107477 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 352 str.

Lilly Haines-Gadd

Opis

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.

Recenzje

The book is entertaining and engaging, and reading it may be the first step to changing the way you approach problems forever (Professional Engineering, May 2016)

Spis treści

Introduction 1

Part I: Getting Started with TRIZ 5

Chapter 1: Going from Zero to TRIZ 7

Chapter 2: Understanding the Fundamental TRIZ Philosophy 27

Part II: Opening Your TRIZ Toolbox 39

Chapter 3: Solving Contradictions with the 40 Inventive Principles 41

Chapter 4: Applying the Trends of Technical Evolution 61

Chapter 5: Improving Ideality by Using Resources 83

Chapter 6: Using the TRIZ Effects Database 99

Part III: Thinking Like a Genius 117

Chapter 7: Breaking Psychological Inertia with the TRIZ Creativity Tools 119

Chapter 8: Thinking in Time and Scale 137

Chapter 9: Living in Utopia (then Coming Back to Reality) 153

Chapter 10: Problem Solving and Being Creative with Others 167

Part IV: Understanding, Defining and Solving Difficult Problems with TRIZ 185

Chapter 11: Applying the TRIZ Problem Solving Process 187

Chapter 12: Getting to Grips with Your Problems with Function Analysis 205

Chapter 13: Solving Problems using the TRIZ Standard Solutions 223

Chapter 14: Trimming for Elegant, Low Cost Solutions 241

Part V: The Part of Tens 257

Chapter 15: Ten Pitfalls to Avoid 259

Chapter 16: Ten Tips for Getting Started with TRIZ 265

Part VI: Appendixes 271

Appendix A: The 40 Inventive Principles 273

Appendix B: The Contradiction Matrix 291

Appendix C: The 39 Parameters of the Contradiction Matrix 293

Appendix D: The Separation Principles 299

Appendix E: The Oxford TRIZ Standard Solutions 301

Index 311

O autorze

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.

Blurb

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