One-Day CEP Course On
Innovative
Problem Solving using TRIZ in
Business
and Software
December
4, 2003
To be held at
Taj Gateway Hotel
Residency Road
Bangalore
Need for Systematic Innovation
The goal of all Research and Development in Indian national laboratories is to seek innovative solutions to engineering problems, quickly and with fewer resources. This is required to improve their products and processes so that they can create enhancements above and beyond the technologies developed in countries like the USA, UK, Japan etc. thus enabling them to be set free from the clutches of perpetual dependence on foreign know-how.
However, human nature, specialist training, habits, paradigms and the working environment constrain our innovative thinking. This is called "psychological Inertia" and it has to be overcome to obtain innovative solution concepts for the chronic technical problems.
TRIZ is the only scientifically based systematic methodology that overcomes this "psychological inertia". TRIZ has been proven to produce a large range of fundamentally strong solution concepts in a much shorter time scale even when resources are very limited. TRIZ solutions directly result in improved products at reduced cost.
What is TRIZ ?
TRIZ is a Russian acronym meaning "Theory of Inventive Problem Solving". In 1946, Genrich Altshuller, the founder of TRIZ, was a patent reviewer at the Russian naval patent office. He perceived that there is a definite pattern in the way innovations take place in technical systems. He started a study of 400,000 patents to look for the basic principles and patterns in the world's most innovative patents. This study was continued, by Altshuller and his disciples, over the past 50 years and has yielded a systematic approach for definition and identification of innovative problems, a set of problem solving tools, and a vast knowledge database, which can help solve current technical problems in an innovative way. Today, the TRIZ software database includes the essence of over 2,500,000 of the world’s strongest patents.
What does the course offer?
This course introduces all the main TRIZ tools in order to give Board level managers an appreciation of what they do, the likely benefits they will bring to an organisation, and their likely impact on strategic develomment of both business models and intellectual property holdings. Even as Altshuller concentrated on technology patents, a leading TRIZ research company CREAX NV in Belgium has researched the best practices of Business methods and Software technology and the result is the pioneering new TRIZ tools for “Business and Management” and “Software and Information Technologies”.
Various TRIZ tools covered in the course encompass all aspects of Technology, Business and Software development. These are : Ideality and Ideal Final Result (IFR), Problem formulation and Functional Analysis, Use of 40 Principles to resolve contradictions, Use of Evolution trends, and Use of knowledge-bases. The introduction to each TRIZ tool is followed by real world examples of the method in action.
The emphasis throughout the course will be on relevance to the real problems and issues being faced by organisations. In addition to learning through the solution of real problem cases, delegates will have the opportunity to operate the TRIZ tools in realistic circumstances in order to experience the profound benefits likely to be obtained following broad exploitation of the tools within an organisation.
Who should attend?
Board level Directors and Managers within leading edge industrial organisations operating in the areas of:-
o
Service Industries
o
Software and IT Industry
o
Research & Development,
o
Quality and Reliability,
o
Product and Process Design
and
o
New Product Development
Course Material
Comprehensive notes, describing all of the TRIZ tools and their relevance in defining problems, opportunities and generating world-class business, software and technical solutions, will be given at the time of registration. It will consist of “Introduction to TRIZ” and a copy of the unique Contradiction Matrix for Business and Software problems.
Intellectual Property
TRIZ is already having a profound effect on the generation and protection of intellectual property. The course will pay particular attention to this important area.
Faculty & Course Coordinators
The course will be jointly conducted by
Prof. Prakash R. Apte and Darrell Mann.
Professor Apte has, for the past 4 years, been conducting courses on “TRIZ – Innovative problem solving” for Indian industries and national R&D labs, emphasizing its potential in innovative research, problem solving and opportunity creation. He has introduced “TRIZ” to hundreds of IIT Under-Graduate and Post-Graduate students.
UK-based
Darrell Mann is one of the world’s leading TRIZ researchers, teachers and
users. Over the course of last 11 years he has taught TRIZ and other systematic
innovation methods to senior management teams of blue-chip organisations from
all around the world including Rolls-Royce, BAE Systems, Exxon, MoD, Mars, Sara
Lee, Hoover, Intel, Heidelberg Digital, United Utilities and Volvo. He has
published over 100 patents, patent applications, books and technical papers, as
well as authoring the best selling TRIZ book ‘Hands-On Systematic Iinnovation’.
He is the pioneer of TRIZ for Business methods and Software technology, and is
a Director of leading TRIZ research company CREAX NV in Belgium, and held the
post of President of the European TRIZ Association. Together, the two
co-ordinators have published numerous research papers on TRIZ in International
conferences and in the online web-journal,
www.triz-journal.com.
Course Fees
The course fee for the 1-day course is
Rs. 5,000. For the academic and research people it will
be Rs. 3,000/-. Participant from
academic institutions and national R&D labs must provide an official
certificate from their institute in order to avail the discounted rate.
More
that two participants from same organization would also be eligible for the
discounted rates of Rs. 3,000/ participant.
The course fee is inclusive of tea (morning and afternoon) and lunch.
Registration
Please
fill the attached registration form and mail it along with the fees in the form
of a demand draft payable to "Registrar, IIT Bombay (CEP A/C)",
to the course coordinator at the address given below:
(It may be noted that no income tax is
to be deducted at source from the course fee payments as IIT Bombay is exempted
from the same.)
Please
note that registration closes on 25 Nov 2003.
Prof. Prakash R Apte
Course Coordinator
Reliability
Engineering (EE Dept.)
IIT
Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400 076, India
Tel : 022-2576-7401 (EE office)
Cell : 98204-26774
Fax : 022-2572-3707
Email : apte@ee.iitb.ac.in
Web : http://www.iitb.ac.in/~cep/
Course Schedule
(9:30 am to 6:00 pm)
|
Sr. No. |
CONTENTS |
TIME (Hrs) |
|
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From |
To |
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Registration and inauguration |
08:45 |
09:30 |
|
01. |
Overview of TRIZ - Innovative Problem Solving and Expected
Benefits |
09.30 |
10:30 |
|
02. |
TRIZ - a systematic approach to overcoming Psychological
Inertia |
10:30 |
11:00 |
|
T
e a B r e
a k |
11.00 |
11.15 |
|
|
03. |
The Tools of TRIZ : Eliminating Contradictions in Technology, Business, Software
and Information Technology |
12:00 |
13:00 |
|
L
u n c h B
r e a k |
13:00 |
14:00 |
|
|
06. |
The Tools of TRIZ : Ideality
and Ideal Final Result (IFR) and System Resources |
14:00 |
14:45 |
|
T
e a B r e
a k |
14:45 |
15:00 |
|
|
07. |
The Tools of TRIZ
: Laws
of Evolution for Technical, Business, Software and IT Systems, Evolutionary
potential |
15:00 |
15:45 |
|
10. |
Patents and TRIZ : TRIZ makes Ø
Stronger
patents Ø
Umbrella
around patents |
15:45 |
16:15 |
|
11. |
Putting It All Together: A Complete Problem Definition, problem solution and
evaluation process |
16:15 |
17:00 |
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12. |
CASE STUDIES : real problems (by participants) |
17:00 |
17:30 |
|
13. |
CONCLUDING SESSION
|
17:30 |
18:00 |
R E G I S T R
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Innovative Problem Solving
using TRIZ in Business and Software
December 4, 2003
Venue
Taj Gateway Hotel, Residency Road, Bangalore
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