Easy to Understand and Use, our Innovation Tools guide you to apply Oxford TRIZ to any problem.
Use our Contradiction Matrix to understand your problem's conflicting requirements, then find the solution to them using the 40 Inventive Principles. Use the 6 Trimming Rules exercise to streamline your life.
Oxford Creativity developed Oxford TRIZ™ to be simpler than classic TRIZ, but much faster to learn and easier to apply. Oxford TRIZ incorporates all the TRIZ powerful tools including the Contradiction Matrix , the 40 Inventive Principles and an exercise that uses the 6 Trimming Rules.
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Oxford TRIZ is true to classic TRIZ (neither adding nor removing anything) but delivers:
Oxford TRIZ is analogous to chess – we need to combine and play the right individual elements to get a winning strategy. Our Innovation Materials guide you to build competence and confidence with all the principal TRIZ tools, so you can to resolve any challenge no matter how intractable. Like chess it is important to remember you don’t have to ‘play’ all of them altogether, but just choose the relevant combination according to the different problems.
Enthusiasm for TRIZ begins with your preference for and empathy with a part of the toolset. All our Oxford TRIZ experts began their TRIZ journeys in different places. For example one solved everything using the TRIZ trends, while another only used the contradiction tools. Interestingly, they both now prefer TRIZ function maps and the standard solutions – but whichever TRIZ tools they apply, they get fast results and have never seen it fail. After decades of success with TRIZ we recommend that you begin with the TRIZ tools that work best for you. Our Level One teaching covers all good TRIZ problem solving tools, offering practice at applying them to technical, personal and business problems.
The Oxford TRIZ Advanced Innovation Problem Solving (AIPS) course builds and hones your TRIZ abilities and responses, to enable fast selection of the best and relevant tools for different problems.
But like chess, you can begin as soon as understand the different pieces. Oxford TRIZ simply boosts your problem solving abilities and never forces you to bend your way of thinking or follow a very long multi-step algorithm. Oxford TRIZ was developed to help everyone access and apply their talents, experience and intelligence to help find the strongest solutions to all problems.
TRIZ problem solving almost always involves understanding that many good solutions have downsides. This reveals a contradiction, which is a simple clash of solutions. TRIZ guides us to aim for delivering everything, what everyone wants is the cleverest, most cost effective and sustainable ways possible, while dealing with the inevitable problems this entails. We can do this by solving contractions using the 40 Inventive Principles.
They are very general ideas of how to solve a contradiction. They are the easiest TRIZ tool to use, and the one most likely to give us good solutions fairly easily and quickly. They are the total number of ways (40) the world has found to solve contradictions.
Today, in the West, most engineers are taken aback to find there are only 40 simple, and easy to learn, rules for solving engineering and management problems with conflicts. Yes - these 40 Inventive Principles may be used to help solve both technical and non-technical problems quickly and simply. They show us how and where others have successfully eliminated contradictions and take us to the proven, powerful recorded solutions contained in the patent database.
TRIMMING guides us, step by step, to systematically remove anything harmful, superfluous, excessive, and/or expensive. Good TRIMMING also ensures when logically taking out any problematic components or processes, that nothing good is inadvertently lost by following the 6 Trimming rules.
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