November 2008
Intermediate to advanced
192 pages
8h 32m
English
A methodology for inventive problem solving.
I discovered the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving, or TRIZ (its acronym in the original Russian), when I began working with Lev Shulyak in 1992. He had translated an introductory text on TRIZ from Russian into his broken English, and he wanted help editing and marketing it.
In that manuscript I saw a fascinating concept that had global impact: a methodology that can help everyone from children to rocket scientists solve problems more quickly and with better results.
I signed on, and the decision changed my life. Soon after, Shulyak and I formed the Technical Innovation Center, dedicated to TRIZ. And the rest is history.
TRIZ (pronounced “trees”) is the brainchild of ...