Welcome to the October 2009 Issue of The TRIZ Journal!

This month we’re continuing our practice of publishing some of the best conference papers with a selection from 2009’s TRIZCON.Read More

Producing TRIZ Solutions: Odds of Success

It is a common perception in the TRIZ community that TRIZ solutions are quite different from conventional ones; they are elegant, cost-effective and even perfect, if not ideal. But what are the realistic chances of delivering one?Read More

Applying TRIZ to Business Process Reengineering

There is a misconception that TRIZ is applicable only in technological processes or products. This case study will showcase the use of problem flow technology as a way to identify a list of key problems that if solved improve business processes.Read More

The Red Zone

Jack Hipple

What is the red zone? In American football over the past ten years it has come to mean the last 20 yards to go before a touchdown–the 20 yard line of the opposing team. Why is this important? Well, … Read More

HBR Understands Resources

Ellen Domb

The October 2009 issue of the Harvard Business Review has a very nice article on what TRIZ calls the use of resources: ”The Power of Unwitting Workers.” An important part of teaching about the use of resources is explaining that … Read More

TRIZ and Six Sigma: Ellen Domb on Quality Conversations

Katie Barry

Tomorrow (Wednesday, Sept 30), Ellen Domb, founding editor of The TRIZ Journal, will be on Steve Wilson’s show Quality Conversations, hosted by BlogTalkRadio.

Steve has interviewed a plethora of quality professionals in the past. Guest apperances include Tom Kubiak, … Read More

Introducing Contradictions in Businesses – Is That a Conscious Strategy?

Prakasan Kappoth

A car that is capable of reaching half the speed of a jet cruising at 30K ft… So, we have the world’s first fastest production car, Aero costing over half a million dollar available in the Indian market. (My … Read More

Innovation in a Carbon Constrained World

Kady Srinivasan

Hello everyone! This is my first post on RealInnovation.com and I am very excited to be a part of this dynamic community. I focus on Sustainability in my work and am starting a series of posts on Sustainability Innovation … Read More

Make Information Come to You!

Jack Hipple

Accurate, timely, and low cost information can be a critical component of innovation and market research. Think about the following things that all of you have experienced or seen in the past few years. First “I Report” on CNN … Read More

TRIZ-fest 2009: Another Point of View

At TRIZ-Fest 2009 Martha Gardner was the keynote speaker. Gardner is a GE Global Research Quality Leader. She champions TRIZ as part of the company’s world-wide quality program.Read More

TRIZ-fest 2009: Ma-triz Conference and Congress Report

Over 100 TRIZ specialists from 14 countries participated in TRIZ-Fest 2009, July 25-29 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The participants delivered over 50 papers in English and Russian. Both languages were served with synchronous translation.Read More

Welcome to the September 2009 Issue of The TRIZ Journal!

Welcome to the September 2009 issue of The TRIZ Journal! We’re happy to be back.Read More

Using TRIZ to Develop a New Stirling/brayton Engine

The Stirling engine is combined with the Brayton cycle in order to produce a more efficient machine by using TRIZ methodology. The result is a system that operates in a closed cycle and obtains energy from external sources.Read More

Report on the 5th Senior Conference on TRIZ Researching

The 5th Senior Conference on TRIZ Researching was held at China’s Hunan University on April 25, 2009. It was sponsored by the Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society (CMES).Read More

About Commentator: Kady Srinivasan

Kady Srinivasan

Ms. Kady Srinivasan, a Manager based in Clarkston’s Chicago office brings experience in strategy, sales and marketing and supply chain management advising companies in the consumer products and retail industries.  From assessments, performance benchmarking to process improvement, change management … Read More

TRIZ Papers Win Awards at ICED

Ellen Domb

ICED – the International Conference on Engineering Design – is the flagship event of the Design Society. The Seventeenth Conference was held last week at Stanford University in the USA. Over 200 papers were presented by a wide range of participants. Cause … Read More

Innovation at the Verge

Lynda Curtin

Futurist, Joel Barker has a new video presentation–Innovation at the Verge. You may want to view the preview.

I am planning on using it with a client to help them clear out the work pressures from their minds, … Read More

Computer-Aided Innovation Conference in Harbin, China: Day 1, Afternoon Session

Ellen Domb

Report on the Computer-Aided Innovation conference in Harbin, China.  Day 1, afternoon session.

Two parallel sessions for the afternoon gave a wide variety of speakers an opportunity to tell the conference about a wide variety of research in … Read More

Computer-Aided Innovation Conference-Live Report

Ellen Domb

Hello to TRIZ Journal and Real Innovation readers from the great city of Harbin, China.   I will report live from the 3rd IFIP Working Conference on Computer Aided Innovation (CAI): Growth and Development of CAI.  Many aspects of CAI … Read More

Keep the Antenna Out!

Jack Hipple

In a column two weeks ago, I made some serious suggestions regarding thinking about innovative discoveries and their ultimate outcome prior to investing tons of money. Let’s take the other tack to see both sides of innovation and discoveries.