In today’s scary world – I take heart that the TRIZ founders stood against Russian oppression and lies, and succeeded in giving us a unique toolkit for solving difficult problems. The TRIZ creation in a Siberian Gulag is a testament to Altshuller’s courage, despite being locked up indefinitely in appalling conditions. Fellow inmates said Altshuller was charismatic and always asking questions and searching for knowledge. He never lost hope, even after the KGB apparently murdered his widowed mother, when they claimed she fell from the balcony of her flat while they were interrogating her. When Altshuller, along with many others. was released after Stalin’s death by Khrushchev in 1954 he devoted his life to bringing the fundamental truths of technology to the world. Perhaps this is why applying TRIZ is so cheering and effective. It also might help us all to see the way through in difficult times. TRIZ helps us all grasp the fundamental truths about what we want, and how best to get it. Technical communities achieve much more when armed with TRIZ power and simplicity. They instinctively then mobilise available resources for clever solutions (an example might be cardboard drones). TRIZ delivers responsible, genius innovation and boosted brain power. Stalin’s regime tried to stop it but it now flourishes all over the world.
Triumph with TeamTRIZ workshops
Fast and effective TeamTRIZ workshops banish ineffective brainstorming sessions, indecision, and tedious meetings. Try TeamTRIZ to frame problems and understand complex challenges, no matter the size, budget, or kinds of people.
These efficient sessions (half or full day) all begin by understanding the 3 fundamentals of:
Context
Requirements - What everyone wants (allowing for all views)
Challenge / scope and type of problems of current system or processes
TeamTRIZ transitions teams from struggling with a problem mess to delivering and tackling a prioritised, clear problem list. The simple critical steps are logical, fast and systematic and help everyone from global, blue-chip businesses to village voluntary groups.
"Truly Inspiring" – feedback from recent half-day TeamTRIZ workshop
‘Inspiring and fun’ was the verdict, after running a brief, high energy TeamTRIZ workshop for 32 maintenance engineers from all over Europe last month in Germany. The challenge was ‘how to evoke good customer responses, and work with them in a stressful situation’. The fast paced session worked brilliantly with carefully designed, highly interactive TeamTRIZ exercises which kept everyone enthusiastically engaged. Many pragmatic solutions were uncovered to help tackle challenges of dealing with customer problems – all in just 4 hours.
Fast, fun and effective TeamTRIZ workshops are available for half or full day sessions to energise, inspire and inform best practice for framing and subduing challenges and team building.
‘Intelligent Cost Cutting’
TeamTRIZ Case Studies
Ignorant corporate vandalism under the banner of saving money (or efficiency) can instantly destroy years of important good work, trust, and harm those who benefitted from its important outputs. By contrast TRIZ maps the simple routes to clever cost cutting, showing how to to retain important work and promote efficiency while reducing expenditure. Two case studies document Oxford Creativity’s fast effectiveness when working with two very different well established teams fighting for their survival (paramedics and a legal team). In both cases their jobs were threatened by political cost savings – governance choosing to lose loyal, successful teams and the many essential benefits they deliver, in order for the public to observe their illusory cost savings. This meant that politicians briefly looked good, while the general public suffer from the long term loss of important services. TRIZ logic found ways for the teams to identify and document the grim reality of their situation, and navigate to win through. They kept their jobs, retained the important benefits they delivered to the public and saved money.
Visit our website to read a third case study about how a TeamTRIZ workshop helped a Cathedral Friends organisation identify ways to better serve their members’ needs AND get more young people involved. In all three TeamTRIZ workshops there was no previous TRIZ knowledge, but everyone was enabled to work together in one-day sessions.
Ambulance Case Study
Download this case study to learn about a UK Ambulance Service which was threatened with being replaced by a taxi service. A TeamTRIZ Workshop enabled them to write/sell their bid to their political masters on benefits (not price) and ultimately won out over the cheaper taxi service.
When Buckinghamshire County Council faced budget cuts, their proposed solution was to sack their loyal, long serving legal team and outsource their work. In a series of TeamTRIZ workshops the legal team found the best way forward. They were able to persuade their county council that they were not just able to save money and their jobs, but to create an income and transition from being a heavy overhead to a profit centre.
