"From Russia, With Love" is more than just the name of a James Bond movie! This month, it also means that we have reports from the happenings at this year's TRIZ Developers Summit in St. Petersburg.
Every specific design of a system intended to fulfill requirements can be seen as a micro-state. Design degeneracy is a type of entropy that can be defined as the number of designs available to fulfill a certain set of requirements.
TRIZ practitioners continue debating how best to teach it. Recognizing everyone is different, learns differently and possesses a different knowledge base the article explores different thinking/teaching modes.
A lot of problems exist in life where the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ) tools of understanding functions would improve the problem solving process – especially in order to avoid spending money on unnecessary problem solving.
Applying CTS and the system operator model enhance the creativity of the solutions; viewing the core process of a call center, where a service technician works with a customer, revealed an immediate opportunity for improvement.
Shape memory alloys (SMAs) are useful in construction; one such way is protecting buildings and other structures from earthquakes and other dynamic "happenings."
What's Your Sign (Of Innovation)? Commentary by Jack Hipple
How many of you have seen one of Jeff Foxworthy’s comedy monologues? You know one of his favorite spots is his description of a certain behavior (usually not all the flattering, but funny), and then saying, "Here’s your sign!", meaning that everyone then knows who you "are". His version of...
Olympic TRIZ Commentary by Ellen Domb
Thanks to BusinessWeek for doing all the research for this article, Olympic Innovation (http://images.businessweek.com/ss/08/08/0807_olympic_innovation/index.htm), they have a great slide show and article about the innovations in Olympic equipment, whether non-Olympic athletes can buy it, and if yes, the details. The range is pretty extreme:...
What's Your Sign (Of Innovation)?
Olympic TRIZ
