A few days ago, I had a short conversation with my classmate and she showed me a interesting word “TRIZ”, based on which she started to compose her paper. I know a word called “trig”, which means handsome, however, “TRIZ” doesn’t seem to be handsome, but mysterious. I think any words with a “Z” sounds mysterious, like “Zerg” in the Starcraft.
In fact, “TIPS” is the acronym for “Theory of Inventive Problem Solving,” and “TRIZ” is the acronym for the same phrase in Russian. TRIZ was developed by Genrich Altshuller and his colleagues in the former USSR starting in 1946, and is now being developed and practiced throughout the world. Literally, TRIZ tells people how to invent, that’s my first thought.
Following Google, I got a clear understanding about TRIZ at www.triz-journal.com:
TRIZ research began with the hypothesis that there are universal principles of invention that are the basis for creative innovations that advance technology, and that if these principles could be identified and codified, they could be taught to people to make the process of invention more predictable. The research has proceeded in several stages over the last 50 years. Over 2 million patents have been examined, classified by level of inventiveness, and analyzed to look for principles of innovation. The three primary findings of this research are as follows:
- Problems and solutions were repeated across industries and sciences
- Patterns of technical evolution were repeated across industries and sciences
- Innovations used scientific effects outside the field where they were developed
In the application of TRIZ all three of these findings are applied to create and to improve products, services, and systems.
TRIZ works! Large and small companies are using TRIZ on many levels to solve real, practical everyday problems and to develop strategies for the future of technology. TRIZ is in use at Ford, Motorola, Procter & Gamble, Eli Lilly, Jet Propulsion Laboratories, 3M, Siemens, Phillips, LG, and hundreds more.
Sounds great? 
WTK: hypothesis, codify, predictable, patent, inventiveness, propulsion
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Yes Sound great….
Partially.
Exept the definition of the TRIZ. There are so lot of “TRIZ experts” that gave so lot of definitions…
However all of them based on the very old books and information on TRIZ. Most of publications oversimplify Classical TRIZ. TRIZ is based on Dialectics. The principles you promote just misslead people.
Thanks for your comment. The reason why most publications oversimplify TRIZ maybe to give the reader some understandable and acceptable perceptual knowledge.
good