In my consulting practice, innovation challenges that dogged teams having very good and experienced engineers for months or even years were resolved in a matter of days or hours. It was not magic; we ...

UOW Malaysia KDU has nine bachelor’s degree and diploma courses in engineering, preparing students to become effective problem-solvers for the industry. THE old Russian problem-solving method known as ...

TRIZ, an acronym for a Russian phrase loosely translated as the “Theory of Inventive Problem Solving,” has received little mention in Machine Design over the years. There were half a dozen articles in ...

Identify the specific problem that you have. You need to get to the root cause of the problem. It often calls for asking “why?” many times, until you found that root cause. Find a “generic” TRIZ ...

Rigorous methods to foster creativity? Should we believe in them? Most techniques are disappointing or at least random in their results. However, the TRIZ method is an exception, probably because it ...

TRIZ (pronounced “trees”) is the (Russian) acronym for the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving – a methodology for systematic innovation. It was developed in the former Soviet Union beginning in the ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Would you be surprised to learn that the solution to your innovation problem has already been discovered? Welcome to TRIZ–a Russian ...

If you're stuck trying to solve a problem, try the obscure. "There's a classic obstacle to innovation called functional fixedness, which is the tendency to fixate on the common use of an object or its ...