Modern TRIZ Academy India
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TRIZ - Theory of Inventive Problem Solving - was first conceptualized in Russia by the inventor, author and independent scientist Genrikh Saulowitsch Altshuller (1926-1998).
In TRIZ, a task is defined as a task in inventing if ist effective (acceptable) solution has to be invented because obvious solutions are either not available, are insufficient or can’t be found using extent professional methods.
For solutions to "problems in inventing" you need knowledge and must command special methods that are extra-professional, universal and super effective models of inventive creative thinking.
This kind of thinking has deep historical roots, even though it first started to develop as a scientific direction in the last one hundred years and will soon become a new direction of professional activity, a real profession.
TRIZ worked through a complicated and complex path in its conception. It survived thanks to the extraordinary will of its founder Genrikh Altshuller and his unshakable belief in it.
The development of TRIZ as a practical science was achieved through the collective work and enthusiasm of hundreds of its talented followers.
The results and suggestions of many authors became dozens of models and methods of TRIZ as well as thousands of examples and were combined into ARIZ – the Algorithm of Inventive Problem Solving.
Today TRIZ is spreading rapidly around the world and is used in many large firms, smaller and middle-sized companies and by many researchers, engineers and teachers. As opposed to many schools of creativity, TRIZ provided new possibilities for solutions to complicated problems and for the generation of effective ideas (especially in technical applications).
These possibilities that characterize the value of TRIZ can be quickly summarized in the following theses:
The basis for the conception and development of TRIZ has always been the accumulation (collection) of experience in the creation of inventive ideas by extracting models of effective transformations from real inventions as well as the creation of catalogues of such models and procedures for the selection of models of transformation according to the conditions of a task to be solved. Today these processes are accomplished with the aid of programs that use the principles of artificial intelligence.
The basis for the practical use of TRIZ were several constructive models of creativity, above all else models of contradictions, transformations, laws of the development of systems and others that became navigators of thinking in the search for effective solutions.
The use of navigators in an extremely large scale and of a potentially unlimited effect, of the so-called "Algorithms of Inventing – ARIZ" and of the Meta-Algorithm of Inventing MAI increase the effectiveness of TRIZ.
These possibilities in TRIZ open the door to creativity for millions of people who are motivated to learn something new. It is exactly for these people that TRIZ has become a practical theory of inventing that unifies science and the art of the creation of inventions.
TRIZ is an outstanding development of the 20th century and even of the entire 2nd millennium. Its development is continuing. The discoveries of TRIZ need to become achievements for the heirs of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium.
To conclude this section we would like to introduce the definition of TRIZ to you that has been further refined and used in our Modern TRIZ Academy.
Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ) is an empirical, constructive, qualitative and universal methodology to generate ideas and to solve problems especially in the development of technical systems that is based on models of contradictions in technical systems and methods for their solutions that were derived from known inventions.
1st definition. TRIZ is an empirical methodology that postulates the possibility of solving any given contradiction by using models and methods derived from a limited number of real inventions.
2nd definition.TRIZ is a constructive methodology because it contains practically reproducible models and methods that make it possible to develop new inventions and to train in the processes, models and methods of creation of new ideas.
3rd definition.TRIZ is a qualitative methodology because its models and methods have the character of recommendations based on similarities in the qualitative (as opposed to quantitative) characteristics of models for objects that are to be transformed or created. These models have neither strict mathematical axiomatics nor mathematical rules for the production of solutions from specific initial data.
4th definition. TRIZ tends toward a universal "above-professional" methodology for the inventive generation of ideas and solutions to problems for any given area because the effectiveness of the usage of TRIZ is only limited by a lack of basic scientific knowledge in this area.
