TRIZ, Its Uses and Its Potential Impact

Richard Langevin:

TRIZ, Its Uses and Its Potential Impact

Thursday, November 20, 2003, 6:00 PM

Tenleytown Room, Embassy Suites Hotel,

Chevy Chase Pavilion, Friendship Heights, Washington, D.C.

6:00 p.m. Cash bar reception 4300 Military Rd., Washington, DC

6:45 Buffet Dinner Building above Friendship Heights

7:45 Presentation Metro stop on the Red line

–9:00 Q&A Parking: Garage, limited street avail.

Richard Langevin, Executive Director of the Altschuller Institute
who will speak on “TRIZ, Its Uses and Its Potential Impact.” TRIZ (Russian abbreviation for "The Theory of Inventive Problem Solving") is a discipline that has been developed in the Former Soviet Union over the last 60 years. Actually, it could be said that TRIZ was developed in the Soviet Union despite the Soviet system because its creator was sent to the gulag by Stalin for suggesting it.
At this point TRIZ is a practical and robust system for bringing logic, methods and resources to bear. It provides the ability to mobilize cross-disciplinary solutions to solve problems.
TRIZ makes it possible to maximize the ability of the inventor or product developer to achieve an optimum new product. It allows the orderly solving of problems and the possibility of accessing many thousands of patent claims and scientific principles to provide solutions. This permits the scientist, engineer or entrepreneur to overcome constraints that prevent product functionality.
TRIZ also provides the ability to understand the direction in which a particular product is evolving; this makes it possible, not only to anticipate the future, but to make it happen faster.
Since 1990 TRIZ experts have been establishing themselves in the West. The approach is taking hold both in the entrepreneurial world and in Corporate America. At this point a number of large companies, including GE, Procter & Gamble and Ford, make regular use of TRIZ.
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