Notes from the Executive Director

Welcome to the Altshuller Institute for TRIZ Studies

The Holiday season is beginning this week with Thanksgiving where we celebrate with family and friends. We give thanks for all of our blessings, for life, and liberty. I wish all of you a blessed Thanksgiving !!!

My Feeling and Observations!

The seasons are changing. Mother Nature is in control of our weather as she has done since the beginning of time. The temperatures are falling across the northern hemisphere and the temperatures are rising in countries south of the equator. Water and food are in short supply for people around the world, especially in Africa. Inadequate fuel supplies are causing inflation globally. Europe is wondering how they will survive the winter temperatures without an adequate supply of oil, natural gas, and other heating sources of energy. The costs of fuel is causing delivery, manufacturing, farming, and services to be more expensive.

The world needs more critical thinkers, innovators, and problem-solvers to manage this world. We need more visionaries and developers to safely change the course of our run-away economies.

Hugh problems need to be solved if our civilization is to survive and return to normalcy. The Earth is our home, and we must find ways to survive the global challenges unfolding. . 

These requirements bring us back to why TRIZ is essential to resolve these issues and improve the lives of all..

• TRIZ develops critical thinking skills.
• TRIZ gives us the methods to improve systems and enhance their capabilities.
• TRIZ allows us to think about reliable IDEAL systems that perform needed  functions.

To all of our members, colleagues, friends, and extended TRIZ family, I wish you happiness, peace, health, and wealth.

May GOD protect and bless you all.

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We must deal with these unexpected events and their repercussions in the short and long term to maintain a successful enterprise or country. The alternative is that if we fail to plan and take action, we could lose our jobs, business, and in battle/war, our lives.

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Inside TRIZ Article

Exploring the Effectiveness of Inventive Principles of TRIZ on Developing researchers’ innovative capabilities: a case study in an innovative Research Center 

 Mostafa Jafari, Peyman Akhavan, Hamaid R. Zarghami, and Naser Asgari

Department of Industrial Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the efficacy of 40 inventive principles of TRIZ for developing researchers’ innovative capabilities and to evaluate the extent of application of “40 inventive principles” by inventors In Research Center of Intelligent and Signal Processing (A Successful research center that is producing new products in the field of signal processing and medical engineering).

Findings – 

The results showed that about 71% of the researchers have employed TRIZ above the average in their innovative products. Also these studied researchers used TRIZ principles unintentionally. Therefore, if this research center and similar institutes want to make full use of their Researchers’ abilities, they can facilitate innovation through offering courses on TRIZ, the principles of TRIZ and its other tools to them.

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World WTSP Catalog

Prof. Toru Nakagawa in Japan is doing some significant TRIZ work. For some time now, he has been leading a worldwide effort to provide a map of TRIZ organizations. This daunting task has been an effort of love and a driving force for Toru. His global thinking and desire to advance TRIZ needs to be recognized and supported by the entire TRIZ community.

AI has been publishing Toru's Newsletters for WTSP for some time, and I hope you will take the time to review and support his work.

.Updated:  6 October 2022

Toru Nakagawa (OGU, WTSP Project Leader) 

[WTSP] Letter (32M-2AB) WTSP Papers presented at Japan TRIZ Sympo and ETRIA TFC.

Dear TRIZ Leaders/colleagues,    

Hello, How are you, your family, and the people in your country?          

I have posted three WTSP articles on Oct. 3 in our website:

   https://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/nakagawa/TRIZ/eTRIZ/

[1] WTSP Paper (5): Japan TRIZ Symposium　Sept. 1, 2022

[2] WTSP Paper (5): ETRIA TFC2022,  Sept. 28, 2022

[3] WTSP Forum: Communications with WTSP Members and Readers

Best wishes,

Toru Nakagawa

CATEGORY: TRIZ NEWS

 Powerful solutions grow on TRIZ !

Many household name Fortune 500 companies use TRIZ, but the methodology is far from a household name. TRIZ is a way of thinking, a set of tools, a methodology, a process, a theory or even possibly a deep science, which seems to be gradually shaping up as ‘the next big thing.’ TRIZ, pronounced ‘treez’, is an acronym for the Russian words that translate as ‘the theory of inventive problem solving.’

From its roots in patent analysis by Genrich Altshuller in the late 1940s, TRIZ has grown and is today an impressive and useful body of work that is now being applied by leading organizations in North America, Europe and Asia. Some of these companies include:

Allied Signal, Amoco, BAE Systems, Boeing Corporation, Brunswick-Life Fitness, Cabot Corporation, Chrysler, Daimler Chrysler, Dana, Delphi Corporation, Dow Chemical, Dura Automotive, Eastman Chemical, Ford, GM, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, Honeywell, IBM, International Truck, Johnson & Johnson, LG Electronics, Lockheed Martin, Motorola, Kimberly-Clark, Kodak, McDonnell Douglas, NASA, National Semiconductor, Nortel, Otis Elevator, Panasonic, Parsons, Peugeot, Procter & Gamble (P&G), Samsung, Rockwell, Shell, Rohm and Haas, Rolls Royce, Teck Cominco, Toyota, TRW, UNISYS, United Technologies, Visteon, Xerox, and more.

Innovation and problem solving are generic skills and can be applied across many different domains; make someone more effective in one domain, and they will also be more effective in others. Knowledge of TRIZ will help to increase the productivity of everyone who has some training in and practices this powerful methodology.

TRIZ Works

Here are some fundamental factors that point to TRIZ as an effective and transformational methodology:

1. It is very general.
2. It is grounded in a reliable body of knowledge, the growing patent base.
3. The scenarios it generates bypass the psychological inertia of team members.
4. It can be used with other quality processes, removing roadblocks and speeding decision making.
5. It reduces the resources required to generate a solution set.
6. It is rapid in generating solution concepts, relative to other methods.
7. It can be taught, and applied, at any level of education, from school children to management consultants to PhD scientists.

Help us bring TRIZ to the World 

Altshuller Institute is looking for financial Sponsors to sustain our year long activities. Please review the attached file for Legacy Support and find a comfortable level where you can help AI.

We have many levels of support that will benefit your company or organization. Help us spread TRIZ. There are a lot of problems that can be solved with TRIZ. Let's solve them together.

Send an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and let us know that you want to help. Sponsorship is an exciting way to get maximum exposure for your group to TRIZ at a very low cost.

Bring Innovation and Creativity to your organization in a fast and meaningful way!

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