When teaching TRIZ to groups of people from a wide variety of technical and cultural backgrounds, it is important to use a case study that they can all understand. The world-wide popularity of the movie Titanic can be used. More METHODOLOGY
Look Up and Down for Innovation! Commentary by Jack Hipple
There is a fundamental law of product and business innovation that says that systems integrate intotheir super-systems over time. What does this mean? Lets take an example. You are in the businessof making paint roller pans. You have worked hard over the years to add stability to these simpledevices so...
Creativity and Risk-taking Competencies for Innovation Commentary by Ellen Domb
Can you teach other people to be innovators? Or can you teach yourself to be more innovative? TRIZ practioners learn to generate innovative ideas, but they dont always get their ideas adopted in their organizations.
Sarah Miller Caldicott is co-author of Innovate Like Edison...