Resourceful & Clever Beats Big Bullies

Terrifying problems need a fast response with the cleverest solutions. This is true whether it’s a global problem like defending Ukraine, or a local one of a child or an adult being bullied. Successful resistance requires taking the best instinctive response by reaching for the right actions and tools which are only available if already learned and prepared. The oldest stories concern winning against the odds – and our cartoon version of David and Goliath gently suggests that Oxford TRIZ enables us to defeat even the biggest challenges. 

Ukraine defending itself against Russia shows that courage, preparedness, motivation and fast response together with intelligent resource mobilisation produces astonishingly powerful results. The combination of the big elements like cyber intelligence and weapons supply from allies, together with the many small elements, like bottle collections to make Molotov cocktails, has prevented the huge Russian forces from achieving their aims.  This has changed our whole world and given us all hope that the bullies won’t always win. The belief that we (the little people and small organisations) can defend ourselves and win against great powers whether its nations or corporations is taking hold and building optimism rather than despair.

TRIZ ensures we can protect ourselves in many ways – it gives us 24 amazing strategies for dealing with harm – they are all powerful but my three favourites are to change yourself so you are not sensitive to the harm, to deal with harm by using the harm itself and to use the harm for something good.

TRIZ also offers us many rigorous yet simple strategies to protect our own inventions and to extend our intellectual property territory. This could help us to help the world to deal with invasions into human knowledge ownership which is the new global colonialism of human knowledge in patents by the giant corporations. We offer a 10-hour Patent and IP Development online training course to learn how to mobilise resources (including our own cleverness and knowledge) to help ourselves, and our teams work together to build IP & patent portfolios. Most of our IP work is bespoke /in-house but we also offer public workshops. There are still places available on our next two hours a day online course on 13-17 June.

Training and Resources

Protect & Build your Patent & IP Portfolio

Patent & IP Development is an Oxford Creativity TRIZ Academy online public training course which is for anyone involved in creating, developing, and filing patents. Fast and effective in just 10 hours over 5 days, with a one hour training session each morning, followed by a related assignment to embed the learning which is covered in-depth in tutorial workshops in the afternoon.

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During the course delegates will learn: 

• The essential and simple TRIZ tools and processes to extend and protect your intellectual property
• How to generate more ideas to broaden patents, anticipating and protecting your products' future development
• Clever and ethical circumvention of your competitors' patents to get freedom to operate (without involving lawyers) and leapfrog existing patents to develop the next generation

When: 13 - 17 June 2022

Where: Online - Oxford TRIZ Live 
Cost: £800.00 (plus VAT) 

In order to sign up for this course you must have completed, Fundamental Problem Solving. If you have not attended this course we offer a special price of £1,500 for our Fundamental Problem Solving and Patent & IP Development public training courses when bought together please contact us to book both courses.

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Defend against the New Global Colonialism

Today’s global colonialism is the bid to ruthlessly control all new (and maybe old) territory of human knowledge. The big players are household names with much power and resources – including domination of digital technology, control of future life through genetically modified seeds (biopiracy) and the battle to patent human DNA.

They are accused of gobbling up, rebranding and controlling their small suppliers and competitors, especially those with innovative promise. However they can’t own and control TRIZ which is public domain and available to everyone and delivers innovation to anyone bright enough to adopt it.

Read this blog to find out why it is so important to defend against colonialism.

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Industrial Fire Alarms - how they improved their product whilst also decreasing costs by 50%

One of Oxford Creativity’s clients is experienced in providing various fire-alarms for industrial clients worldwide. Their best selling product had been on the market for 9 years and was well proven and trusted but was now losing market share.

The company wanted to launch a new design which of course, had to be utterly safe, reliable and predictable. So the company wanted a new, innovative product with no risk.

Read this case study to find out how by attending a problem solving workshop with Oxford Creativity, they were able to cut costs by 50%, improve efficiency and improve their product.

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