Technology Forecasting: How to Practice

09/03/2008 | Editor

Ellen Domb

TRIZ Journal readers have been given more terms for this one element of TRIZ than any other—laws of technology evolution (many translated texts), guided evolution (Victor Fey), directed evolution (Alla Zusman and Boris Zlotin), trends of evolution and evolutionary … Read More

MEET – OPEN PROBLEMS: Two cases from practice

13/08/2004 | Editor

By Anatoly Guin, Universal Solver Lab, Head guin@trizway.com

Thirty “brains” – winners of school Olympiads – were combat-ready. They had just been given problems to solve, and the countdown had begun… Twenty minutes later I came up to one apparently … Read More

Universal Scheme of Evolution – Theory and Practice

18/06/2004 | Editor

The transdisciplinary unification within the sciences can most fruitfully take evolution as the basic concept. The theory will describe the various phases and facets of the evolutionary process with invariant general laws. The laws will enable investigators to describe the … Read More

Book Review: “Directed Evolution: Philosophy, Theory and Practice.”

26/05/2001 | Editor

Reviewed by Ellen Domb, Title: “Directed Evolution: Philosophy, Theory and Practice.” Authors: Boris Zlotin and Alla Zusman, edited by Victoria Roza Details: 103 pages, some in color. Soft cover. US$70. Published by Ideation International Inc., www.ideationtriz.com

Alla Zusman and Boris … Read More

TRIZ Beyond Technology: The theory and practice of applying TRIZ to non-technical areas

05/01/2001 | Editor

By Boris Zlotin, Alla Zusman, Len Kaplan, Svetlana Visnepolschi, Vladimir Proseanic and Sergey Malkin1 Ideation International Inc © 1999 Ideation International Inc. Detroit, MI

Introduction

During the 1970s and 1980s, attempts to apply … Read More