Two days ago I posted a series of very special short videos based on films by Genrich Altshuller, the father of TRIZ. TRIZ has been around for long enough that different solution-strategies based on TRIZ have evolved. Some of these solution-strategies adhere more closely to Altshuller’s teachings than others. Currently, TRIZ purists, students of Altshuller, and students of their students, are solving some of the most complex technical problems st the most advanced industrial organizations in the world. I guess we could refer to these people classical TRIZ practitioners. Other solution-strategies more loosely based on TRIZ are also developing new products, markets, and business practices in companies of all sizes. While we are naming things, let’s call these people derivative TRIZ practitioners. Either category of TRIZ-based solution-strategy has a common source – the work of Genrich Altshuller.
The Genrich Altshuller Teaches TRIZ video series presents brief glimpses of various aspects of TRIZ. They are short, but with a high density of thought. Watch them once or twice, and then go about your business. You will find that thoughts presented in these Altshuller videos will occur to you later on. Watch the videos again later. You will see and hear things on subsequent viewings that you did not notice the first time you watched them.
If these videos speak to you, if TRIZ seems to fit a problem that you are facing, I strongly urge you to follow your instinct. Pursue information and training on TRIZ. Learn the kind of problems that the TRIZ solution-strategy is well suited for. Introduce TRIZ to your organization. Set up a TRIZ practice group where you work. Make TRIZ one of your solution-strategies, classical or derivative. If you need an advanced solution-strategy like TRIZ, you will not be disappointed. TRIZ is fiercely effective.
I need to reiterate the relationship of the Frame of Reference blog to TRIZ. Frame of Reference does not sell TRIZ. Frame of Reference is interested in TRIZ as an outstanding example of an advanced solution strategy. Frame of Reference simply wants to expose TRIZ to you. I hope that exposure to TRIZ will enhance your skills as a thought-leader. Perhaps exposure to TRIZ will amount to nothing more for you than an academic excursion into a new solution-strategy. What you do with TRIZ, or any other solution-strategy presented on this blog, is entirely up to you.
Future articles posted on this blog will include discussions of solution-strategies that are based on TRIZ, but have taken one or more of the underlying concepts of TRIZ in a different direction. TRIZ purists find the methodologies of such organizations offensive to TRIZ because they are not, well, pure TRIZ. TRIZ purists object that concepts borrowed from TRIZ are misapplied. And from a TRIZ perspective, they are.
Frame of Reference does not have a problem with solution-strategies that borrow from TRIZ, or that borrow from any other methodology for that matter. In fact, I encourage such cross-pollination of ideas. My goal is to present any effective solution-strategies for your thoughtful consideration. My goal is to help you become a better problem solver. Borrowing from and extending TRIZ in order to create another set of practices demonstrates that solution-strategies, like other technologies, also evolve. TRIZ evolves. TRIZ stays the same, but TRIZ changes. TRIZ is subject to the forces of psychological inertia just like any other school of thought. Stated as a general rule, solution-strategies evolve under the pressure of creativity and innovation as thought-leaders work to solve complex problems.
After you watch the Genrich Altshuller Teaches TRIZ video series, you should be able to recognize threads of TRIZ in solution-strategies that you encounter. In my opinion, it does not matter whether a solution-strategy is based on brainstorming, the scientific method, TRIZ, or some other discipline we have not yet discussed. What matters to Frame of Reference is that a solution-strategy facilitates systematic innovation. Systematic innovation, in any form, is better than haphazard innovation, or no innovation at all.
The Genrich Altshuller Teaches TRIZ Video Series exposes you to essential TRIZ. Whether you pursue TRIZ in its pure form, pursue TRIZ through a solution-strategy based on TRIZ, or invent your own solution-strategy based on something you have learned about TRIZ, I am confident that if you watch these videos closely, you will be more effective in your role as a thought leader.
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Related posts:
- TRIZ – An Introduction
- Solution-Strategies In The Classroom
- Genrich Altshuller Teaching TRIZ 1 of 6
- Genrich Altshuller Teaching TRIZ 2 of 6
- Genrich Altshuller Teaching TRIZ 4 of 6
- Genrich Altshuller Teaching TRIZ 5 of 6
- Genrich Altshuller Teaching TRIZ 6 of 6
- Genrich Altshuller Teaching TRIZ 3 of 6
- Sergei Ikovenko – Systematic Innovation & TRIZ
- TRIZ – Part 1