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МЕТА-ARIZ™ D-R-T-V™

Meta-ARIZ has been determined to become the organizational framework for a basic training for the masses in the essentials of TRIZ.

Essentially the formation of Meta-ARIZ was prepared in public or secret from and completed partially or comprehensively by an entire army of scientists and developers of a wealth of theories of creativity and was constructed in the course of the entire history of civilization.

For a solution to any given problem you need a "guide" (a leader) for thinking in the form of a scheme, a map or even better a "road map" for the shortest path to the solution.

Meta-ARIZ or the Meta-Algorithm of Inventing™ (MAI™ - see the agreement for authorization) functions likes just this kind of universal guide.

MAI D-R-T-V™ represents a 4 stage method for solutions to problems in inventing ("Meta-Navigator", meta-model, algorithm, technology, frame):


The creation of any given idea is always comes from a movement through the 4 phases of MAI:

D - Diagnostics
investigation of the original problem situation to find the key conflict of interests and resources for the formulation of the goal and the direction of the development of the entire object;

R - Reformation
reformulation and construction of a model of the problem using examples and stereotypes (patterns) from extent experience and knowledge;

T - Transformation
application and combination of patterns for a solution to similar problems and to find a new solution to the current problem;

V - Verification
evaluation and check of the effectiveness of the solution.

The process of a solution to a problem consists of a movement in thinking along the meta-algorithm – quite often with a return to previous stages, sometimes also with a return to the very beginning of diagnostics. The latter means a transition to a new cycle, to a new attempt to solve the problem after a previous attempt turns out to be unsuccessful.

The cyclical scheme of MAI D-R-T-V has the following form:


Meta-ARIZ D-R-T-V


The primary idea of TRIZ is the possibility and necessity of the creation of models for the initial problem situation in the form of a contradiction - generally speaking, every problem situation contains at least one contradiction of this or that kind – and in the following selection of models of transformation that previously appeared either in contents or statistically in the solution to just this kind of contradiction.

These 4 phases form a meta-level (very generally) of the "algorithm of inventing" and also of each and every other system of creative thinking.

Such a 4 phase model can therefore be described as the meta-navigator of thinking.

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