Book Review Archives - Page 3 of 4 - The Triz Journal
Book Review: Joy of Inventing for Everyone
26/06/2005 | Editor
by Frederick L. Orthlieb, PhD, PE Williamson Professor of Civil & Mechanical Engineering, Swarthmore College John Terninko, PhD Responsible Engineering editor@the-trizjournal.com Details: “Joy of Inventing for Everyone” by Abram Teplitsky. Publication date: 1994. Price: $17.50 paperback, $7.50 electronic, in PDF, … Read More
Book Review: Principles of Survival (A Theory of Everyday Creativity) By: Gennady Kizevich
25/03/2005 | Editor
by Gennady Kizevich Reviewed by Michael S. Slocum, Ph.D., M.B.B., T.Sc. Details: 352 pages, paperback edition available from Amazon.com for $17 US (a bargain). This book was published by Washington House in March of 2004.
Editor’s note: So that our … Read More
Book Review: Hands on Systematic Innovation for Business and Management by Darrell Mann
22/09/2004 | Editor
Reviewed by: Michael S. Slocum
Hands on Systematic Innovation for Business and Management is published by IFR Press, and can be ordered from their bookstore at www.systematic-innovation.com. Hardback, 539 pages. £40 plus shipping.
This book is the follow-on to the … Read More
Book Review: Innovation Training by Ruth Ann Hattori and Joyce Wycoff
02/09/2004 | Editor
Reviewed by Jack Hipple, Tom Kling and Norbert Hoeller
Jack Hipple, Innovation TRIZ Tom Kling, Dow Chemical Company Norbert Hoeller, IBM Canada
Innovation Training is published by the American Society for Training and Development, and can be ordered from their … Read More
Book Review: How To Develop Winning New Product Ideas Systematically
17/07/2004 | Editor
By: Roni Horowitz, Reviewed by Larry Ball, and John Terninko, Edited by Ellen Domb editor@the-trizjournal.com Details: 145 pages. Published in April, 2004, as an e-book in PDF format. Download from www.start2innovate.com for US$57.
Editor’s note: We invited two reviewers to … Read More
Book Review: Effective Innovation: The Development of Winning Technologies
23/04/2004 | Editor
ISBN 0-7918-0203-5 Hard cover, 247 pages, with index Cost: $69 ($55 for ASME members) or £56.00 Published simultaneously by ASME Press (US) http://www.asme.org and Professional Engineering Publishing (UK) http://www.pepublishing.com We are borrowing The American Society for Training and Development book … Read More
Book Review: Pocket TRIZ for Six Sigma
20/02/2004 | Editor
Reviewed by: Larry Ball, Thomas Kling, Paul Sheehy
The editors wanted the readers to get opinions directly from people who would use this book or refer others to it.
Pocket TRIZ for Six Sigma fulfills its name. It is small … Read More
Book Review: Breakthrough Inventing With TRIZ, Second Edition. By: Larry Ball
21/01/2004 | Editor
Loose leaf notebook, 80 pages. Available from the Products and Services page of The TRIZ Journal as a free download for individual study, or in a printed version in full color for $24.95. http://www.3mpub.com/TRIZ/
The purpose of most book reviews … Read More
Review of “Solution – Innovation Card Gameâ€
24/12/2003 | Editor
By: Walter Lamia
Review of “Solution – Innovation Card Game†by Walter Lamia, Colorado State Univ. doctoral student Hape Etzold’s card game (€45,50 at www.etzold.biz)is based on the TRIZ inventive principles. It comprises forty cards, each printed with a principle, … Read More
Book Review: Inventive Thinking through TRIZ by Michael Orloff
30/11/2003 | Editor
Reviewed by: Michael S. Slocum and Ellen Domb editor@the-trizjournal.com Ralph Czerepinski Jose M. Vicente-Gomila vicente@triz.net Richard Kaplan
Title: Inventive Thinking through TRIZ: A Practical Guide, 332 pages, 329 examples, 228 figures Author: Michael A. Orloff Publisher: Springer Verlag, 2003, http://www.springer.de/engine/ … Read More
Book Review: the 121 Heuristics for Problem Solving.
15/10/2003 | Editor
Review: The 121 heuristics for problem solving. By Ellen Domb and Michael Slocum editor@the-trizjournal.com
Regular readers of The TRIZ Journal will remember the articles in the September 2000 and July 2001 issues by the authors of the new book, The … Read More
Book Review: “Unified Structured Inventive Thinking – an Overviewâ€
20/09/2003 | Editor
by Ellen Domb, editor@the-trizjournal.com
Unified Structured Inventive Thinking — an Overview by Ed Sickafus. 50 pages. Available free from www.u-sit.net in either PDF or doc format. © 2001. The purpose of a book review is usually to tell the reader … Read More
Preview of a New English Translation of a TRIZ Book
13/09/2003 | Editor
By: Vladimir Petrov vladpetr@netvision.net.il
INTRODUCTION Dear reader, I’d like to introduce you to the first book in the series “Professional TRIZ.â€1 The theory of inventive problem solving (TRIZ) is a science that allows creative problems in any field of knowledge … Read More
Design for Six Sigma (DFSS): A Roadmap for Product Development (Book review)
25/08/2003 | Editor
By: Michael Slocum MichaelS@BMGi.com
The TRIZ Journal is pleased to announce the publication of Design for Six Sigma: A Roadmap for Product Development. Drs. Kai Yang and Basem El-Haik have delivered a tremendous research effort that will support the successful … Read More
Book Review: How To Invent (Almost) Anything
25/06/2003 | Editor
By: Joe A. Miller
Title: How To Invent (Almost) Anything (ISBN 1-904298 87 7) Price £49.95 310 pages; Publisher: Spiro Press, London, England Authors: David Straker and Graham Rawlinson
How To Invent (Almost) Anything is a book that teaches us … Read More
Book Review: TRIZ: Through the Eyes of an American TRIZ Specialist
28/05/2003 | Editor
By Ralph Czerepinski, innovation consultant, Ralph@czere.com
TRIZ: Through the Eyes of an American TRIZ Specialist, by Dana W. Clarke, Sr., Applied Innovation Alliance, December, 2002. 80 pp US$30. Order from the Products and Services page of The TRIZ Journal or … Read More
Book (and Product) Review: Introduction to ASIT
25/04/2003 | Editor
By: Ellen Domb editor@the-trizjournal.com
Introduction to ASIT by Dr. Roni Horowitz. 2003. 95 pages. Published as an e-book packaged with the on-line course “Introduction to ASIT†(See course review in the July 2001 issue of The TRIZ Journal) US$29 for … Read More
Book Review: TRIZ Companion
20/02/2003 | Editor
By Catherine Lundberg, clundberg@ontro.com
Title: TRIZ Companion Written by Darrell Mann and Simon Dewulf Publisher: Creax Press. http://www.creax.com Price: 29Euros plus shipping Paperback, 122 pages. ISBN 90-77071-03-2 (pocket-sized format) TRIZ Companion is an excellent reference that even the most skilled … Read More
Book Review: “Anatomy of a fiction plot (ANATOMIYA SYUGETA)”
09/01/2003 | Editor
Book Review: “Anatomy of a fiction plot (ANATOMIYA SYUGETA)”
by Dr. Semyon Savransky* triz_sds@hotmail.com
Book Review: Alexandr Moldaver. “Anatomy of a fiction plot (ANATOMIYA SYUGETA).”(in Russian) Jerusalem, Israel, 2002.
The results of almost 20 years of the … Read More
Book Review: Value Engineering: A Plan for Invention
20/11/2002 | Editor
By: Joe Miller
Joe A. Miller Quality Process Consulting
Title: Value Engineering: A Plan for Invention (ISBN 1-57444-235-X) Price $57.95 (352 pages; Publisher: St. Lucie Press (CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida, USA Author: Richard J. Park
Value Engineering: A … Read More