Problem Solving Methodology for Innovation: TRIZ/USIT. Its Philosophy, Methods, Knowledge Bases, and Software Tools

By: Toru Nakagawa

Editor’s Note (Toru Nakagawa, Aug. 25, 2004) This paper was presented as an invited talk at the First Symposium on Knowledge Creation Support Sytems held at JAIST near Kanazawa in February 2004. This paper is an intorduction … Read More

Footprints of Innovation

By: Reza Movarrei and Sara R. Vessal

Reza Movarrei Instructor, Project Management R&D Centre (PMIR), PIDMCo. movarrei@pmir.com

Sara R. Vessal Executive, Safety Committee, Iran Ministry of Roads and Transportation Vessal@gawab.com

Abstract Inventive principles which have been established for solving technical … Read More

Book Review: Hands on Systematic Innovation for Business and Management by Darrell Mann

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

Mapping the Innovation Space Two: Individual Solutions Drives Infinite Disruptive Innovations

By: Dr. John Cooney, Barry Winkless

Dr. John Cooney (jcooney@altrantech.ie). Barry Winkless Hdip, MSc (bwinkless@altrantech.ie) Altran Technologies Ireland

Abstract This paper expounds the need for a new paradigm for innovation at the problem space. It suggests that innovation needs to … Read More

Book Review: Innovation Training by Ruth Ann Hattori and Joyce Wycoff

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

Mapping the Innovation Space One: Novel Tools for Problem Definition in Product Innovation

By: Barry Winkless, Dr. John Cooney

Barry Winkless Hdip, MSc (bwinkless@altrantech.ie) Dr. John Cooney (jcooney@altrantech.ie) Altran Technologies Ireland.

Abstract The following article introduces and describes two novel problem definition tools. The tools include the Concurrent Problem Definition Tool, and the … Read More

innotool – Innovation Toolbox For SMEs

By: Darrell Mann

The Innotool project is an EU-funded research programme aimed at developing innovation tools specifically for use by SMEs. Project lead comes from the Industrial Liaison department at the University of Leoben in Austria. Partners involved in the … Read More

Innovation In the Material Cost of the 8mm Camcorder Using Triz

By Young-Ho Cho, Jeong-Seon Kim and Jun-Young Lee. ccc2155@samsung.com Samsung TRIZ Association (STA), Samsung Electronics, Co. Ltd., Suwon, South Korea.

ABSTRACT: A camcorder has come into wide use rapidly due to the increase of outdoor activities and the elevation of … Read More

How the Horse Leg and the Marine Sponge Can Help Us to Increase Innovation. Learning from Nature

Models from nature, like a horse bone and a marine sponge, help to find new engineering solutions. Biological examples are also useful in the study of innovative methodology. Genrih Altshuller wrote already in 1950s: “In many cases, technical contradictions encountered … Read More

First gathering of the SIT Innovation Community in the Netherlands

First gathering of the SIT Innovation Community in the Netherlands From the ASIT newsletter, http://www.start2think.com

* * * * A Special Message for our Dutch readers * * * *

Based in the Netherlands? Interested in systematic innovation? On June … Read More

Book Review: Effective Innovation: The Development of Winning Technologies

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

The Undervalued Innovation Potential

Pavel Livotov, Ph. D. TriSolver Group, Hanover, Germany, www.trisolver.com

Despite best efforts of the last decade, 60 to 70 percent of all initiatives pursued by the European companies to integrate TRIZ into their innovation process are abandoned or fail, … 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

Innovation Process As A Key To The Market Success In The Engine Manufacturing Business

ABSTRACT In the coming years, the aircraft industry is faced not only with a rising traffic volume together with an adjustment to large market fluctuations, but also to an increasing demand for environmental protection and more aggressive cost pressure. In … Read More

Review of “Solution – Innovation Card Game”

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

Systematic Innovation In Service Design Through TRIZ

By: Jun Zhang, Kay-Chuan Tan, Kah-Hin Chai

Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, National University of Singapore, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, 119260, Singapore Email: engp2383@nus.edu.sg

ABSTRACT This paper proposes an innovative service design approach by integra ting the Theory of … Read More

SUPPORT – Sustainable Innovation Tools Project Update

Further to the introduction in the March issue of TRIZ Journal (Reference 1), the SUPPORT project team thought that it was time to update readers on progress made on the project. The project – funded by the EU Leonardo da … Read More

Modelling 40 Innovation Principles with “Moving Little People”

By: Pavel Livotov Pavel Livotov, Ph. D. TriSolver oHG, Hanover, Germany phone +49 511 860 8343; fax +49 511 860 8345 e-mail: livotov@trisolver.com internet: www.trisolver.com

Abstract The article describes a recent approach to enhance creativity and output using 40 Innovation … Read More

SUPPORT – Sustainable Innovation Tools Project

By: University of Leoben

The Industrial Liaison department at the University of Leoben in Austria is proud to announce the commencement of the SUPPORT project. The project – funded by the EU Leonardo da Vinci initiative (Reference 1) – is … Read More

Innovation Metrics: Embedding Innovation in an Organization’s Systems

by Joyce Wycoff jwycoff@thinksmart.com

Interviewer’s Note: Since launching the book, Driving Growth Through Innovation in November, 2002, Robert B. Tucker has been criss-crossing the globe spreading the message that innovation in leading firms is fast becoming an imbedded, systematic organizational … Read More