San Francisco Bay Area TRIZ society

Hi, my name is Igor Polk. I am publishing this webpage in an attempt to find TRIZ aficionados in San Francisco Bay Area ( in California, CA). I want to establish communication with people who are trained at a TRIZ school ( TRIZnik ) or just have heard about it. The idea is to establish a local community of TRIZ people, exchange materials and ideas, and discuss the topics we love.

I have attended TRIZ school at Minsk in about 1980-1983. Tsourikov, Kozlovski, Boiko, Khomenko and others were teaching.

Please, e-mail me at ipolk@virtuar.com or just phone: 510-582-8711

TRIZ is an international abbreviation of "Theory of Inventive Problem Solving", science established by G. Altshuller.

My main website

Triz links

Triz people around

Jack Standeven ( Oregon ) | Ellen Domb ( LA )

Triz people afar

Козырева Нелли Арнольдовна | José M. Vicente Gomila | Jack Hipple, Innovation-TRIZ |

Tags

Contradiction
Conflict
Controversy
Opposite
Trade-off
Dilemma

Solving

Psychological Inertia

System Thinking

Laws of System Development

Systems containing opposite properties are used to solve contradictory requirements.

Gereral Theory of systems

CI, including Creative Problem Solving Tools - this is a new name for TRIZ, which probably suites better the global intellectual space.

Definitions of Contradiction

Thoughts

2011.03.04

Getting acquainted with the current state of affairs, I have found that TRIZ have made a huge step forward since I learned it. Wow ! I impatiently waiting our coming discussions !

2011.03.03

What does it mean "to be a master". Whatever master do, he "just knows what to do" without any visible thinking effort. Void ! It comes out of void, would say an ancient japanese warrior. For example, a tango dance master, improvising, with any partner, creates the dance right there, on the floor. It comes out if him: new figures, unusual surprising movements, rhythmical play, circulating in all directions. A guitarist looking into notes, just knows how to play them. He does not calculate where each note is and how to pick it up "how do I remember? I do not know, I just do it.". A problem solvers, therefore, should solve his problems without any visible effort. He "sees" the solution, the best one, as soon as the problem is formulated. An ideal problem solver, you may ask? Hah, I like that, but unlike IFR, ideal "problem solvers" exist in areas surrounding us. Few of them are genius. All that comes from diligent practice: you learn to use and then forget. It comes from desire to do things better and more efficiently, from hard work and open mind. Anyone who beats the road will archive a milestone. No one who is not moving will come anywhere.

2011.03.03

Main TRIZ achievements, in my view:

• A huge collection of wonderful problems for mind training. Real problems of real life;
• Active work with a notion of "psychological inertia", warning about it, and active methods of removing its influence;
• Propagation of "Look for contradictions" way of thinking, and showing that there are ways to solve contraditory problems;
• Orienting the mind for innovation;
• Orienting the mind to look deep into the roots of problems;
• Notion of "all physics, all chemistry" and, ultimately, all knowledge presented in a way available for every solution solver. That is the way all sciences should move! In our age of over-complexity, finding the way of propagating the results of research to everyone interested, is of extreme importance. It is not enough to achieve a result. It is important to make it useable for non-experts;
• Bringing awareness of the complexity of the world, and showing the possibilities to deal with it;
• Ground for cooperation of multy-discipline specialists, common language of problem solving.
• Introducing scientific approach to developing problem solving techniques.

Other useful links

ASME ( America Society of Mechanical Engineers ) |