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Genius Muscle Memory - the Greatest Gift from TRIZ

When you become TRIZ competent are your new, good, brain powering habits like a TRIZ field effect or more like a TRIZ...

Bite Sized Blog: TRIZ Clarity Helps Dismiss Fake News

In my first TRIZ conference in the last century in California I encountered some elderly TRIZ masters (now deceased)....

Online or in 'The Room where it happens'...?

Online is a game-changer compared to how things were before the global Covid lockdowns in 2020. It certainly...

What is TRIZ? A simple explanation

If only TRIZ was as universal as brainstorming perhaps then many more difficult problems might get resolved faster....

Bite Sized Blog: Solving Contradictions with TRIZ

Most people were horrified by the late Stockton Rush’s declaration that "certification / safety is the ‘enemy of...

TRIZ is like Chess or Golf; Not Hard to Master, Always Fun

TRIZ is like many activities - the more we practice the better and faster we get, although talent is a factor, everyone...

Brave, Resourceful & Clever beats even the Biggest Bullies

Terrifying problems need a fast response with the cleverest solutions. This is true whether it’s a global problem like...

Hone your TRIZ skills for 2022 – is a new world emerging?

Is 2022 offering us all an important, innovative moment in history to get things better? We all need to respond...

Innovation Beyond BS

What does Innovation beyond BS mean to you? I coined the phrase in despair when yet another team thought a more...

How Using Shorter Words Makes you Cleverer

Beware of using words, acronyms or abbreviations which you don’t understand – or have forgotten the meaning of – one...

How to Deal Efficiently with Anything - Even Annoying Partners & Colleagues!

When I remarked to my husband that the whole Oxford Creativity team were working very hard, his (extremely annoying!)...

The Two Ways to Learn Oxford TRIZ Online and Why you Might Need Both

There are two ways to learn the fundamentals of Oxford TRIZ online. Both take about 10 hours - Oxford TRIZ Live...

Why the Post Covid World needs Innovative Thinking

The new reality – our new post Covid world will be different in good and bad ways. What we see as the new good will...

Can I learn TRIZ through eLearning?

Yes you can!

Oxford TRIZ eLearning offers a whole new and convenient way to learn, revise and hone essential...

5 Ways COVID-19 has Changed how we Teach TRIZ

The Coronavirus Pandemic has greatly changed all of our lives, for both the better and the worse, over the past year....

Ideality Check - Which Covid Vaccine Scores Highest?

There are three coronavirus vaccines that are currently in the process of being launched and made available to as many...

Invention is not by chance, but by design...

Hero Inventors knew how to invent – learn to emulate their certainty with TRIZ

Globally and historically, invention,...

Defend against the new global colonialism

TRIZ – the Lodestar/Compass/GPS for Invention & IP success to build & keep your territory

The perfect invention – patent like a genius

Effective invention is all about resolving unmet needs. Right?

A whole new level of thinking

Name: Rosemary Chude-SokeiJob Title: Performance Assessment & ReportingCompany: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center...

First steps into TRIZ with Oxford TRIZ Live - Attendee Q&A

Oxford TRIZ Live: Fundamental Problem Solving is the first Oxford TRIZ online course - taught in 10 hours over 5 days...

Pandemic Productivity

Newton was in lock down when his theory of gravity / laws of physics became clear to him – he had been sent back to his...

Learning for Lockdown

I’ve read a lot of posts recently about how the world will never be the same after the Covid-19/Coronavirus pandemic....

Celebrating female TRIZ experts (Part III)

In celebration of International Women's Day, we have been interviewing some of the amazing female participants who have...

Celebrating female TRIZ experts (Part II)

This year's International Women's Day theme is #EachforEqual, the idea being that "equality is not a women's issue,...

Celebrating female TRIZ experts

This Sunday it's International Women's Day; "a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political...

The Top 5 Reasons to love TRIZ

On Valentine's Day, I thought we'd take a moment to reflect on sharing the love about TRIZ.

I've been involved with...

Engineer’s efficient wooing & winning of wife using Oxford TRIZ

Thinking clearly and coherently is one of the most important skills TRIZ delivers. This applies in all situations even...

I’m still standing in The Rapid Innovation Zone - my new TRIZ acronym

The Rapid Innovation Zone

(TRIZ = Teoriya Resheniya Izobretatelskikh Zadatch)

This is my new knee – normally I don’t...

My Year with TRIZ: I no Longer Remember how I used to Problem-solve

In the summer of 2018 I came away from an IT conference with only one take-away, and that was the word 'TRIZ'. It...

Six Reasons Why Brainstorming Won't Always Solve your Problems (but TRIZ will)

Although brainstorming can and often does come up with the solution to a problem, it cannot be relied upon to either...

How to Realise An Architect's Visionary Design - using the Power of TRIZ

A few years ago, I visited Barcelona as a guest of Dassault Systèmes to see how their Computer Aided Design (CAD),...

A Structured Approach to Improving my Health: How TRIZ Changed my Life

When Keith Rigby had a heart attack he knew he needed to change his lifestyle to reduce the risk of having another one....

Using TRIZ to Mobilise the Mothership for Gender Equality

Gender equality matters and I hoped that I knew what to do when asked to help answer to the question ‘Why is it so hard...

Brexit: Can TRIZ Provide a Satisfactory Outcome for Everyone?

Can we solve the contradiction of leaving and not leaving?

It’s a terrifying time to be British. 

History was made on...

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