TRIZ for Engineers

About the Author.
 
Foreword (Ric Parker of Rolls-Royce).
 
Introduction.
 
PART ONE: TRIZ Logic and the tools for innovation and clarity of thought.
 
1. TRIZ Tools for Creativity and Clever Solutions.
 
2. The TRIZ Knowledge Revolution to access all the world's known solutions.
 
Case Study: TRIZ in Rolls Royce.
 
3. Fundamentals of TRIZ Problem Solving.
 
4. Thinking in Time and Scale.
 
Case Study: ACENZ.
 
PART TWO: The Contradiction Toolkit.
 
5. Uncovering and Solving Contradictions.
 
Case Study: Measurement of Acoustic Emissions in a Flying Aircraft Wing.
 
Appendix - The 40 Principles: theory of inventive problem solving.
 
Contradiction Matrix.
 
PART THREE: Fast Thinking with the TRIZ Ideal Outcome.
 
6. Chapter 6: The Ideal Solves the Problem.
 
7. Chapter 7: Resources: the Fuel of Innovation.
 
8. Chapter 8: IDEAL and the Ideality Audit.
 
Case Study: Using TRIZ to help manage real world requirements.
 
PART FOUR: TRIZ, invention and Next Generation Systems.
 
9. Chapter 9: System Development and Trends Of Evolution.
 
10. Chapter 10: Inventing and TRIZ.
 
PART FIVE: TRIZ for System analysis and improvement.
 
11. Chapter 11: Function Analysis for System Understanding.
 
Case study: Pouch opening at Mars.
 
12. Chapter 12: Classic TRIZ ARIZ and Su-Fields.
 
Appendix: Traditional TRIZ 76 standard solutions.
 
PART SIX: How to problem Solve with TRIZ - the Problem Solving Maps.
 
13. How to problem Solve with TRIZ - Simple Algorithms for the TRIZ Toolkit.
 
Case study: New BAE Systems SRES.
 
Glossary.
 
Index.

Karen Gadd has been teaching TRIZ and problem solving with engineering teams from major companies for over 13 years. Her mission is to make TRIZ learning straightforward and the TRIZ Tools easy to use. She has worked on nothing but TRIZ since discovering and learning its power to give us all the routes, to all the solutions, to all engineering problems.
In 1998 Karen started Oxford Creativity to concentrate on developing simple and practical TRIZ problem solving for the European market. Karen has taken TRIZ to major companies including Rolls-Royce, British Nuclear Group, Bentley Motors, BAE Systems, Nissan, Pilkington, Borealis and Sanofi Aventis. Oxford Creativity is now well established as one of the world's top TRIZ companies and has helped to make TRIZ well known and widely used throughout Europe and encouraged top companies to create expert TRIZ teams for innovative problem solving.
Karen studied Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College, and has an MBA from London Business School. After working in strategy and corporate planning in the City of London she returned to live in Oxford and was a tutor at Oxford's Business School the European School of Management ESCP-EAP (based in Paris, Oxford, Madrid and Berlin). From 1995-2002 she was a Governor of Coventry University. Karen's career has been dedicated to creating new enterprises which make a difference - she founded both MUSIC at OXFORD and the European Union Baroque Orchestra and ran both for over ten years and raised millions in corporate sponsorship to make their activities possible. These successful music organisations still flourish. MUSIC at OXFORD transformed Oxford's music scene and is now approaching its 30th season of top professional classical concerts. EUBO has celebrated 25 years of launching the careers of talented young musicians and has been so successful in its mission, that there are now former EUBO students in every major professional baroque ensemble in the world. Karen launched Oxford