Wednesday, October 1, 2008

TRIZ: Theory of Inventive Problem Solving, Understanding and Introducing it

Author: Toru Nakagawa
Abstract:
"Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ)" has been developed and systematized since 1946 in ex-USSR and has become known to the western countries after the end of the Cold War as a new methodology for technological innovation. It is based on the philosophy: "Improvements, innovations, and evolutions of technologies share some common aspects across their fields and their eras. Thus, by extracting such shared essences out of a large number of excellent cases, and by making them easy to retrieve after classification, we may reuse them for facilitating new development of technologies. Especially, excellent cases of technology innovation can be understood in a number of patterns of breaking through the contradictions in the problem; such patterns provide us hints for our own creative innovation."

This paper was originally published in "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" in Feb 1999. Reposted in trizsite.com under the permission of Dr. Nakagawa, Editor, TRIZ Home Page in Japan. For original contents please refer to the author’s site.


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