TRIZ for Engineers: Enabling Inventive Problem Solving

by Karen Gadd

TRIZ is a brilliant toolkit for nurturing engineering creativity and innovation. This accessible, colourful and practical guide has been developed from problem-solving workshops run by Oxford Creativity, one of the world's top TRIZ training organizations started by Gadd in 1998. Gadd has successfully introduced TRIZ to many major organisations such as Airbus, Sellafield Sites, Saint-Gobain, DCA, Doosan Babcock, Kraft, Qinetiq, Trelleborg, Rolls Royce and BAE Systems, working on diverse major projects including next generation submarines, chocolate packaging, nuclear clean-up, sustainability and cost reduction.

Engineering companies are increasingly recognising and acting upon the need to encourage successful, practical and systematic innovation at every stage of the engineering process including product development and design. TRIZ enables greater clarity of thought and taps into the creativity innate in all of us, transforming random, ineffective brainstorming into targeted, audited, creative sessions focussed on the problem at hand and unlocking the engineers' knowledge and genius to identify all the relevant solutions. For good design engineers and technical directors across all industries, as well as students of engineering, entrepreneurship and innovation, TRIZ for Engineers will help unlock and realise the potential of TRIZ. The individual tools are straightforward, the problem-solving process is systematic and repeatable, and the results will speak for themselves.
This highly innovative book:

Genres: Business

512 pages, Paperback

First published February 11, 2011

Reviews

[Katherine · Rating 2 out of 5]

I could not finish this book. It is styled similar to a textbook, but feels more like an advertiser's pitch. The first chapters just kept repeating reasons why this method is amazing and should be used, without ever giving concrete examples of the method or tools. I liked some of the underlying principles that I was able to decode from the pitch. For example, brainstorming is presented as a random, non-structured process that relies on luck to come up with the best solutions and ideas. TRIZ is supposed to provide a systematic method for exploring all potential solutions to a given problem. I think this book would have benefited from some concrete case studies and examples in the early chapters. Perhaps a different TRIZ book would provide a better introduction and then use the later chapters of this book as a resource once you are familiar with the method.

[Mohamed Alsaid · Rating 2 out of 5]

i skip it because i have got bored from distraction of the examples. i may read it again