The document provides an overview of simplified TRIZ (the theory of inventive problem solving). It discusses the background and basics of TRIZ, which was developed by Genrich Altshuller to analyze and resolve contradictions in complex systems. The document notes that TRIZ complements other innovation methods and can help understand why good ideas sometimes take time to achieve success. It also outlines some of TRIZ's key concepts, including resolving contradictions, reaching ideality, and using idle resources.

1. Simplified TRIZ
Ellen Domb & Kalevi Rantanen
St Lucie Press
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2. Background - points
• Complement tool to many other methods
– Theory of Constraints (TOC), Six Sigma, Quality Function Deployment, Taguchi
method, DFM-A
• Biography of Altshuller / TRIZ
– Resident of Baku | tormented by Stalin until 1954 |
• Basic Principles
– Ideality | Contradiction | Resources | Patterns of Evolution|Innovative
Principles
– Motivation | Orientation | Internalization | Application | Evaluation |
Implementation [Learning cycle]
• How does this compare with the Kaplan learning model?
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3. Why do good ideas take time to
fruition?
• Xerox – lithography • Is it sales? – May be no
– Richard Foster’s book Innovation
• Penicillin – Alex Fleming • National Cash Register continued to
• Molok – dust bins advertise electromechanical cash
registers in the 1970s
• Mcdonalds – Ray kroc • Is it Prejudice?
• Horizontal Petro Drilling – We don’t know whats good or Bad?
• T – Drill [without T joint]
• Appa – jute wire for
opening furnace ladles
• Flash smelting
• Linz donovitz process ….
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4. How to know? – 3 features?
• Resolves a contradiction [ 2 – dim TOC ]
– Tradeoffs / Inherent
• Reaches Ideality
– All features / No costs * No harmful effects * less complexity
• Uses idle resources [no waste – Lean]
– Energy / Materials / Information / objects
• 2 Views
– Mcgregor :: Cristopher Freeman :: Engestrom :: De Bono
– Theory Y :: Demand Pull :: Humanized :: Lateral
– Theory X :: Science Push :: Rationlized :: Straight
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5. TRIZ APPROACH
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6. OLD AND THE NEW
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7. COMBINING BOTH.
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8. TRIZ in 1 word = Contradiction
TRIZ MODEL

9. Motive force for evolution, trade-offs and inherent
contradictions and constraints that stop evolution
and lead to assumptions and aceptance. == Are Effects / available reserves and properties
psychological inertia. that enable the outcomes on the object. Often
invisible in the beginning as users are not
accustomed to looking at them
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10. Getting to the ideal final result –
completing the model
• Features • ARIZ
– Whole gamut of components and – Method guide for solving TRIZ
functionality
• Standards [76 standards]
• Patterns – List of system transformations
– Soft formulae [ not rigid algorithms!]
• Effects
• Laws / Innovative Principles – Database of phenomena
– Electro, mechanical, chemical, physical
• Software
– Automated above!
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11. Some training standards
• Maintain the good / best practices
– Some elements like 40 principles that reflects evolution of thinking for
innovation should be maintained
• General Concepts >> short procedures
– Less than 1 page the better [ capability vs usability]
• Social network – provide overall concepts
– People will internailze and adapt [ don’t regidify!]
– Peter Senge and Engestorm.
“Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. You
will be certain to find something that you have never seen before.”
Alexander Graham Bell in the foyer of Bell Labs as observed by Shockley
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12. Trade-Offs [Multi]
Inherent Contradictions [
single]
Understanding Contradictions

13. In the 1950s, Altshuller wrote that
finding and resolving
contradictions is essential in
problem solving
the same contradictions have been discovered in science,
engineering, and business situations that, on the surface,
appear to be very different from each other

14. Draft the problem to expose the
tradeoffs.
• Problems are sirens OR scylla & Charybdis
– Homers illyiad
• Understand the problem – 50% solution!
– Problem Finding * Problem Solving
– The tool – Action / Effect – Object
– Defining what is the end outcome / effect on the object / user
• A system by its existence creates trade-offs
– Its continuous iterative method [TOC]
• Define systems not by deficiencies but by trade-offs
– Safety reduces X | Safety reduces as speed increases
• Describe the systems as Actions & Features
– Typically it is easier to describe features [nouns] than actions [verbs]
• Trade-offs happen at different system levels
– Needs systems thinking e.g. Lawnmover – muffler noise
– Study at muffler system | lawnmover system | Garden system
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15. How to display trade offs
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16. Some e.g.s
• Lawnmower Muffler Noise • Carrot garden thinning to
– Muffler Level ensure no overlap and
• Increase muffler thickness / softness
– Lawnmower level
therefore nutrition supply
• Use exhaust differently – Time split
– Garden level – Thinning
• Use grass to muffle exhaust noise • Right distance between carrots
– Also dries grass to reduce stickiness
saplings
• Why cut grass at all? • Use mechanization in seeding
– Growth control – Seeding
• Why have grass at all? • Use bio degradable tapes with
– Artificial grass standard distances
– Grass like lawn effect?
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17. Screens of talented thinking [9
screens]
• System @ Present
• enhance understanding of a
problem
– expand the areas in which you can
look for solutions.
• Simplify by asking what is
good or bad in a part [de
bono forced removal]
– what happens if left out?
– Alex Osborn
• “What can we eliminate?… Suppose
we leave this out.…Why not fewer
parts?”
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18. System operator Concept
• Space & time thinking
• Systemic thinking
• Getting over psychological
intertia
• Zoom in & out for more
frames.
Vishwanath Ramdas Darell Manns description of the system operator model from triz journal.

19. System operator –between the boxes
SLP
• Step in & view from each
room
• Small little people – get into
the problem
• Become the problem
[synectics]
• E.g.s
– Helicopter blades & dust
– Airports & People [beyond airport]
– Future modeling
Vishwanath Ramdas Darell Manns description of the system operator model from triz journal.

20. System operator- additional dimension
• Multiple layers of system
operator plots
– Robert Dilts
• One direct application
– Map vs territory
– Reality vs Perception
• Management problems esp.
• E.g.
– Marks & Spencers products
– HR problems
Vishwanath Ramdas Darell Manns description of the system operator model from triz journal.

21. System operator- integrations
• Using System operator with
other models like
– SWOT
– Co-optition [M]
– Association / Dissociation
– VAKOG
• Kinesthetics / Olfactory / Gustative /
Visual / Auditory /
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22. “Start with the universe, any sub-
categorization under that level is
purely arbitrary”
Buckminster Fuller

23. Selecting the right trade-off
• Iterative Definition of the problem based on state of
solution
• Available resources & time
• Select Effected Components
• From the problem to the tradeoff
– Describe pairs of tools and objects and the action that links them. [Chain]
• Select one pair. Explain why you picked this tool and object.
– Describe features and conflicts between them.
• Select one tradeoff.
– Explain why you identified this tradeoff.
– Describe the tradeoff graphically and in words.
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24. Selecting the tradeoff - summary
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25. crazier the conflict you imagine,
the better solution you get.

26. Inherent contradiction – The root
cause?
• Solution of this solves many • Much ↔ little : water
– Atomized water spray
• Focus on one provides
– Extinguishers [www.hi-fog.com]
better answers
• Long ↔ short : training
• Presenting & influencing
with one is better than • Present ↔ Absent : Object
cluttered many.
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27. “Most important, we think the
excellent companies, if they know
any one thing, know how to
manage paradox.”
Peters and Waterman bestseller “In Search of
Excellence” : 1982 - Chapter 4

28. “Drama is conflict; without conflict
there is no action, without action,
no character, without character,
no story, without story, no
screenplay”
Syd Field : The Screen- writer’s Workbook

29. Intensify the inherent
contradiction!
• Bizarre but true
• Push the contradiction to the extreme!
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30. How to intensify contradiction
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31. Mapping of invisible reserves
Andersen’s fairytale :little child saw that the emperor had
no clothes.
The ancient Mayans used wheels for toys and obviously
knew how to make wheeled vehicles, but they never built
them for any other uses.

32. Idle resource :: Free or cheap
resources that are available in the
system.

33. • What are the invisible resources?
– Boundary conditions [ proximal / gray zones] of development
• Benefits from resources analysis
– Understand customer needs
– Foresee the evolution of development
• What are the resource types and classes?
• The seven most important resources in detail
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34. Invisible Reserves
• Areas for proximal
development
– Available resource not used
– Available resources that can be
harnessed
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35. Resource Analysis - Benefits
• Getting new ideas directly • What are the resources
– MECE
• Solving contradictions
– Space | Area | Consumer
• Predicting the system • Character of resource
evolution – Empty Space | Topology | Time &
skills of users
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36. Resource Types & Classes
• System levels [ref fig]
• Type of Resource
– Substances and things | Modified
substances and things| Voids |
Interactions | energy | Form |
Features or properties | Space |
Time
• Additional resources
– Information | Harm – Side FX| skills
& abilities
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37. Main Resource Types
• Resources of tool & Object
– Starting point | How – Interaction
needs to be understood
• Resources : Environment
– Natural Fields & Effects
– Emptiness & nothing are also
resources
– NVA = Wasteful work
• Resources : Macro level
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38. References
• TechOptimizer
– The Invention Machine Company, http://www.invention-machine.com.
• Ideation Workbench, Ideation International Incorporated,
– http://www.ide-ationtriz.com.
• TRIZ Explorer , Insytec
– http://www.insytec.com.
• The TRIZ Journal
– http://www.triz-journal.com.
• CreaTRIZ & CREAX,
– http://www.creax.com.
• Engeström Y., Learning by Expanding Orienta-Konsultit, Helsinki, 1987.
• Shockley W. The Path to the Conception of the Junction Transistor.
– IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. ED-23, no. 7, July 1976, 59
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39. References
• Foster, R.N., Innovation: The Attacker’s Advantage, Summit Books, New
York, 1986.
• McGregor, D., The Human Side of Enterprise, McGraw-Hill, New York,
1960.
• Freeman, C., The Determinants of innovation, Futures, , June 1979, 206.
• 4 articles by Darrell Mann The TRIZ Journal on 9 screens methods
– http://www.triz-journal.com/archives/2001/09/c/index.htm
– http://www.triz-journal.com/archives/2001/11/b/index.htm
– http://www.triz-journal.com/archives/2001/12/b/index.htm
– http://www.triz-journal.com/archives/2001/11/b/index.htm
• http://www.google.com/patents?id=KBIBAAAAEBAJ&dq=5,875,658
– Latches & Pins patent from google search.
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40. References
• Peters, T.J. and Waterman, R.H., In Search of Excellence
Harper & Row, New York, 1982, 91.
• Field, S., The Screen-Writer´s Workbook Dell, New York, 1984,
31.
• Altshuller, G.S., And Suddenly the Inventor Appeared
Technical Innovation
• Center, Worcester, MA, 1996, 21.
• Savransky, S.D., Engineering of Creativity, CRC, Boca Raton,
2000, 235.
• Altshuller, G.S. and Shapiro R.B., Psychology of inventive
creativity, Izobretenie, II , 23, 2000
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