Innovation on Demand: New Product Development Using TRIZ

by Victor Fey, Eugene Rivin

The revolutionary methodology for enhancing technological innovation called TRIZ is increasingly being adopted by leading corporations around the world to enhance their competitive position. This book explains how the TRIZ methodology harnesses creative principles extracted from thousands of successful patented inventions to help find more innovative solutions to design problems. Written for practicing engineers, product managers, technology managers and engineering students, it demonstrates how to use TRIZ tools for conceptual development of novel technologies, products and manufacturing processes.

Genres: Business

256 pages, Hardcover

First published October 6, 2005

Reviews

[Tom Schulte · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book provides a cogent, cohesive framework for proactively going after innovation in a logical, methodical manner. The TRIZ approach grew out of mechanical engineering, and that is the main thrust here. I feel as a software engineer I benefited from reading and I think anyone that has complex, heuristic engineering tasks can. If in doubt, start with Appendix 1 which gives creator Genrikh Altshuller's motiviations and follow that with Appendix 4 "Using TRIZ in management practice."

(Interestring, Altshuller sought to build better industry out of the ashes of WWII and Stalin locked him up, the Japanese at the same time picked up Deming's ideas discarded by the U.S. and triumphed on the global stage with improved quality.)

I didn't invest the time to learn all the diagramming techniques and lingo, but found the many real-world examples instructive like engineers' koans and even entertaining.