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Triz and Innovation

TRIZ

Been talking to some people who are into using TRIZ for innovation in their businesses - not sure I completely understand this tool so plan to research it further.

TRIZ (/trɪz/; Russian: теория решения изобретательских задач, romanized: teoriya resheniya izobretatelskikh zadach, lit. 'theory of inventive problem solving') is a methodology which combines an organized, systematic method of problem-solving with analysis and forecasting techniques derived from the study of patterns of invention in global patent literature. The development and improvement of products and technologies in accordance with TRIZ are guided by the laws of technical systems evolution.^[1]^[2] In English, TRIZ is typically rendered as the theory of inventive problem solving.^[3]^[4]

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