Putting the NO in InNOvation

Jack Hipple

Have you seen the recent frequently running ad from Post Cereals about Shredded Wheat? It hypes the the fact that shredded wheat is virtually unchanged from its original form decades ago and by golly it’s going to stay that … Read More

Advanced Electrical Discharge Machining and TRIZ

Electrical Discharge Machining (EDM) is a non-traditional process based on thermoelectric energy between a work piece and an electrode. This work revealsRead More

Using TRIZ Tools for Airport Runway Optimization

TRIZ tools are used in the conceptual design and layout of runway models for the effective use of short length runways. When handling bigger aircrafts at smaller airports one must consider the economic effects and benefits of the larger airliners.Read More

Welcome to the June 2009 Issue of The TRIZ Journal!

Welcome to the June 2009 issue of The TRIZ Journal. This month’s articles include Advanced Electrical Discharge Machining and TRIZ, TRIZ-based Practice Book in Education and Using TRIZ Tools for Airport Runway Optimization.Read More

What Job Is Twitter Helping Customers To Do?

Rod King

Confession of an Early, Remote Customer.

Everyday people use it. Celebrities use it. And even politicians at the national level use it. Yes, it’s Twitter! But, what really is Twitter?

About two and half years ago, I read a … Read More

Ideal Final Interface – What Should Have Come First, User Interface or Function?

Prakasan Kappoth

I was introduced by this book called “Design of Everyday Things” authored by Donald Norman by a friend of mine few years back. I was ignorant to the fact that there is such a great amount of work going on in the … Read More

What If This Works?

Jack Hipple

In my days as Discovery Research Director at Dow Chemical, I was given a large chunk of money reserved for research and new product projects unrelated to the current business areas. This money was taken from the line R&D … Read More

Searching for Industries With the Greatest Pain … The Story Continues

Rod King

Joey was like many inventors. He had come up with a great technology that involves a visual process for better organizing massive amounts of information. He was now finding cool ways to apply the technology.

 â€œSearch is cool,” Joey … Read More

Welcome to the May 2009 Issue of The TRIZ Journal!

Welcome to the May 2009 issue of The TRIZ Journal. This month’s articles include TRIZ in software, Confucius and Thailand.Read More

Japan TRIZ Symposium 2008 Presentations Online

Ellen Domb

Great news! Toru Nakagawa has announced that the Award-winning presentations of the Japan TRIZ Symposium 2008 are now publicly posted in their Official Pages, in the form of PDF slides both in English and in Japanese. http://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/nakagawa/TRIZ/eTRIZ/

Because these … Read More

TARP and Stress Tests

Jack Hipple

Reading The Wall Street Journal and listening to the business news the last few days makes me think we are in a cardiology unit. I have never heard the expression “stress test” used in a business context before, let … Read More

Business Model Innovation: What is it?

Rod King

Joey Bloggs was nervous. He paced the corridor as he waited for his turn. To Joey, it felt like the first time when he ventured into the ocean with his surfboard. A creative entrepreneur with big dreams, Joey was … Read More

Creative Conference Experience

Ellen Domb

The Lean Product and Process Development Exchange is happening in Hilton Head, South Carolina, USA this week. I’m not a dis-interested participant, of course:  my co-author Katherine Radeka is the conference chair (see https://the-trizjournal.com/archives/2009/04/04/ for our article linking TRIZ … Read More

Economic Impact of Increased US Savings – Contradiction and Opportunities?

Prakasan Kappoth

A recent article published by McKinsey (March ’09) quarterly shows this interesting (to me at least) study on the increasing US consumer savings in the last couple of quarters. Well, in a time when we see the bad news all … Read More

Why Create the Ideal State?

Bob Malanga

I always used a combination of Six Sigma & TRIZ to solve problems but always started with the Ideal State and worked backwards.  A simple problem like figuring out the fastest way to get from Chicago to New York … Read More

HP Talks TRIZ

Katie Barry

Phil McKinney, the chief technology officer of Hewlett-Packard’s personal systems group, may not be familiar with the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ) – an innovation methodology – but he is talking about a key TRIZ tool in a new … Read More

Welcome to the April 2009 Issue of The TRIZ Journal!

Welcome to the April 2009 issue of The TRIZ Journal. This month’s articles include: Design Methodology for Hybrid Production Processes; TETRIS: Teaching Needs of Heterogeneous Curriculum; and LAMDA and TRIZ: Knowledge Sharing Across the Enterprise.Read More

Tetris: Teaching Needs of Heterogeneous Curriculum

The TETRIS project, funded by the European community within the Lifelong Learning Program, aims at producing and testing TRIZ educational materials that are suitable for learners from 14 years and older.Read More

Lamda and TRIZ: Knowledge Sharing Across the Enterprise

Lean product development helps companies use knowledge more effectively within product development. The look, ask, model, discuss, act (LAMDA) in problem solving is part of the lean product development toolkit, which provides an accessible process.Read More

Design Methodology for Hybrid Production Processes

Current developments of hybrid production processes or production systems have exceeded performance in manufacturing. TRIZ tools are used in terms of identifying hybrid process solutions as part of an innovation process.Read More