Breakthrough Game Design

Darrell Mann

Since the launch of TRIZmeta last month, we’ve been embarked on a tour of the game industry. Main conclusion: there are a lot of games. And the industry is a lot like every other one in that most … Read More

Paradoxical Thinking & Breakthrough Oxymorons

Darrell Mann

Here’s my new favourite delegate exercise in team-building workshops. The inspiration comes from a twenty-year old book, Paradoxical Thinking, that I found in a junk shop last year (Reference 1). Ultimately it’s yet another book in the category … Read More

Continuous Innovation Enables Breakthrough

Ellen Domb

Rosabeth Moss Kanter (well-known management author and Harvard professor) presents her observations and challenges to CEOs who are embracing innovation during the recovery in the article “Block-by-Blockbuster Innovation” in the May 2010 Harvard Business Review.   See http://hbr.org/2010/05/column-block-by-blockbuster-innovation/ar/1  

I … Read More

Breakthrough Thinking by Nadler & Hibino

I wish to know the TRIZ experts' comments on the above subjectRead More

“how to Develop “breakthrough” Products and Services

FYI, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has posted another FREE open courseware offering regarding innovation — this one is entitled “How to Develop “Breakthrough” Products and ServiceRead More

Breakthrough Carbon Capture: Exploiting Trade-offs

Despite the considerable research into a variety of pre- and post-combustion carbon capture and storage technologies, there’s concern that they won’t achieve the required optimal solutions suitable for timely implementation at acceptable costs.Read More

Case Studies from a Breakthrough Innovation Product Design Programme For Local Industries

Darrell Mann Director, Systematic Innovation Ltd, UK Phone: +44 (1275) 337500, Fax: +44 (1275) 337509 E-mail: darrell.mann@systematic-innovation.com

Joseph Poon Director, Hong Kong Productivity Council E-mail: jpoon@hkpc.org Matthew Driver Director, Network China Ltd, UK E-mail: networkchina@btinternet.com

Abstract Starting in August 2004, … Read More

Six Sigma Trends: TRIZ Six Sigma for Cost Reduction: Strategic Breakthrough Training Based Projects

Dr. Elena Averboukh is an industry-funded professor at the University of Kassel (Germany) in Quality and Safety Control Systems and works internationally as a Six Sigma and TRIZ Master Instructor and Fellow Master Black Belt for manufacturing, transactional, design, financial … Read More

Constraint-dominated Breakthrough Innovation in a Manufacturing Process Situation (a Case Study from the Photographic Paper Manufacture Industry)

By: Ian Mitchell, Darrell Mann

Abstract All systems hit limits. All attempts to try and improve a system that has hit its fundamental limit are destined to fail. In such situations, additional improvement can only be achieved by making changes … Read More

Book Review: Breakthrough Inventing With TRIZ, Second Edition. By: Larry Ball

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

Breakthrough Thinking with TRIZ

Study & Observe It takes some time and effort to come up to speed on a problem. Lots of questions need to be asked. Do not rely on the experience of others. Gain firsthand experience of the difficulties and … Read More

Supplement to Breakthrough Thinking with TRIZ 2nd Edition

Breakthrough Thinking with TRIZ provides step-by-step instructions on how to improve technical systems. It reads like a pictorial recipe book, starting on the upper left of each page and ending at the lower right. Viewing this book in electronic format … Read More

Breakthrough Thinking

By: Larry Ball larry.ball@honeywell.com 480-592-5919

Breakthrough Thinking This paper explains another article in this issue of The TRIZ Journal entitled Breakthrough Thinking , which presents a sequencing of TRIZ tools in a linear solution process. This material is available to … Read More

Breakthrough Innovation In Conflict Resolution: Marrying TRIZ and the Thinking Process

* First published in the Proceedings of the APICS Constraint Management Special Interest Group, March 1999

Ellen Domb ellendomb@compuserve.com H. William Dettmer gsi@goalsys.com

Copyright © H. William Dettmer and Ellen Domb

INTRODUCTION

Since Goldratt introduced the logical thinking process as … Read More

Using Analogies to Develop Breakthrough Concepts

Ellen Domb, Ph.D. The TRIZ Institute, 190 N. Mountain Ave., Upland, CA 91786 USA +1(909)949-0857 FAX +1(909)949-2968 ellendomb@compuserve.com ©1998, Ellen Domb

Both the classical and software-based TRIZ methods rely heavily on the use of analogy as a teaching method … Read More