What Is a Good Book on Triz?

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Posted by: Jack Hipple
Posted on: Monday, 21st April 2008, 10:14 PM.

This answer comes from the perspective of doing the TRIZ training for the AICHE and ASME, as well as numerous corporate consulting sessions where I am asked to recommend books. I always suggest people start with "And Suddenly the Inventor Appeared" by Altshuller. Though I know this book is not loved by everyone, I think it is important as one starts a TRIZ education to get inside the head of the person who originally conceived this approach to problem solving. The second book is "Hands On Systematic Innovation" by Darrell Mann of Systematic Innovation in England (recently updated 2nd edition). This is the book I use and distribute to students in the AICHE/ASME classes. One could fault the "flow" of this book in that it is not in sequence with how TRIZ analysis is normally done (for example, IFR is a very late chapter in the book, not in an early chapter). However it has a focused chapter on each different TRIZ tool, which makes it an excellent reference source. It also has numerous excellent teaching examples. After that, there are additional books by Ellen Domb ("Simplified TRIZ"), Sevron Savransky, and Yuri Salamatov. Victor Fey also has a book. The Salamatov book is full of examples and excellent for the ARIZ algorithm. There are additional ones, of course, but these are my recommendations. Which of these comes next is a function of the learning obective.