Inventive thinking through TRIZ

TRIZ turns inventing into a controllable and systematic process. Within technology-oriented companies and institutions, this powerful method can help foster innovation through an extraordinary efficient and lean management of knowledge and data. In fact, TRIZ makes available all the knowledge of all the patents world-wide that can be used for the solution of practical problems. This book is of extremely practical importance to development engineers and planners in all areas of modern technology. Written for self-study, the book provides the reader in the most vivid manner with the key ideas, techniques and paradigms of the TRIZ method. The author is a former student of late Genrich Altshuller, who developed TRIZ in the former Soviet Union.