Product Description

In a wire bound A6 format, this is a simple and easy to use reference guide to TRIZ tools and techniques, with each of the 40 Inventive Principles listed and described as one to a page. TRIZ inventive problem solving techniques fit very well alongside and within Six Sigma projects, and systematic innovation can often be the key to unlocking hidden potential in demanding situations such as DMAIC and Design for Six Sigma work. Use this book to help personal or team creativity when technical and business contradictions limit the capability of products, services or processes.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #589927 in Books
• Published on: 2003-11-17
• Original language: English
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• 96 pages

From the Inside Flap
If the Six Sigma approach is found lacking in any respect then it is probably within the areas of creativity and complex problem solving. TRIZ—the theory of inventive problem solving—contains a wealth of tools and techniques for promoting innovation and for dealing with challenging problems. Pocket TRIZ for Six Sigma is a handy sized collection of the essential TRIZ tools and techniques for identifying and overcoming inherent contradictions, set against the formal DMAIC and DFSS methodologies of Six Sigma.

About the Author
Geoff Tennant is an experienced systems designer and Six Sigma Master Black Belt, with a background in both manufacturing and service/transactional process design and improvement. He is the author of several books on Six Sigma.

Excerpted from Pocket Triz for Six Sigma: Systematic Innovation and Problem Solving by . Copyright © 2003. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
TRIZ
Pronounced ‘trees’ with a roll to the ‘r’, this is the English acronym for a Russian phrase (Teoriya Resheniya Izobreatatelskikh Zadatch) that translates as the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving.
Begun as the work of Genrich Altshuller (a patent officer in the Russian Navy in 1946) it has grown from the input of hundreds of dedicated associates to a well established collection of principles, tools and techniques to aid innovation and problem solving.
TRIZ is primarily about technical and physical problems, but is now being used on almost any problem or situation. In some places, such as the R&D establishments of large corporations, TRIZ is used in its entirety, but elsewhere more and more people are using selected parts of TRIZ in a move towards supporting and enabling systematic creativity, problem solving, and successful innovation.
The key to success in TRIZ is the fact that (technical) systems evolve in similar ways, and by reducing any situation and problem to a functional level, we can apply almost standard solutions and problem solving techniques and even from dissimilar industries.
The foundation elements of TRIZ, each of which will be covered in this pocket book, are:
- Patterns of technological evolution.
- Systems thinking and functionality.
- The inherent technical or physical contradiction.
- The ideal final result as a target and measure.
- Use of idle resources in solving contradictions.
- Inventive principles and techniques.
- Creative perspectives to overcome psychological inertia.

Ask not how to solve a problem. Ask instead how problems have been solved in the past – and then copy the techniques used!

Customer Reviews

A really original set of ideas for the Six Sigma expert
Six Sigma is on of the business trends of the "naughties". Following the path blazed by Motorola and General Electric, fully 25% of the Fortune 500 have a Six Sigma programme running.

If you are new to Six Sigma, then this book is NOT for you. If, like me, you have been working with this approach for some time and had began to slow down on the learning curve then this book is a great purchase for you and your project teams.

A real danger in Six Sigma is in the link between Analayse and Improve. In many projects, having found the critical X, the team leap straight to one (sub-optimal) solution, drop in minimal controls and then walk. The danger is that you forget the purpose of the method - delivering sustainable gains, and instead fall in "love" with the analysis and data.

Using this little pocket guide, which many Six Sigma people will be used to from the Rath and Strong series, will help you to bring a more scientific and rigourous approach to creating the optimal, not the obvious, set of solutions. Based on a study of the physical principles behind patents, Triz offers a set of tools and approaches that will drive you outside of your current thinking limitations and enable the team to come up with some truly market leading solutions to pilot.

The book is well written and easy to read. I intend to try using it in my coaching for a while and then, maybe, read the full size book by the same author. If this type of knowledge is you bag, this makes a great addition to your briefcase.