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Oxford TRIZ eLearning offers a whole new and convenient way to learn, revise and hone essential problem-solving skills and genius thinking tools. With eLearning you can learn at your own pace and at times that suit you, efficiently enabling you to pick up and practice the principal TRIZ tools. This logical extension and addition our to all online training and problem solving will help everyone get up to speed fast to tackle new challenges and tough problems.  But how exactly does it work?

The Coronavirus Pandemic has greatly changed all of our lives, for both the better and the worse, over the past year. Certainly Oxford Creativity is a very different, and we hope much better,  organisation than it was 12 months ago. Here are five ways the past year has changed the we teach TRIZ.

There are three coronavirus vaccines that are currently in the process of being launched and made available to as many people as possible, as soon as possible. All of which claim to have about 90% effectiveness in preventing coronavirus, from early data clinical trials. We will need many vaccine options, but which one comes out best according to TRIZ? 

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

Globally and historically, invention, innovation and uncovering new knowledge are wrongly portrayed as random and subject to lucky chance. This represents over two thousand years of fake news (I blame Archimedes).

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

Effective invention is all about resolving unmet needs. Right?

Name: Rosemary Chude-Sokei
Job Title: Performance Assessment & Reporting
Company: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Industry: Healthcare

What would you say is your biggest challenge right now?
My biggest challenge right now is finding new, different and quicker ways of improving our performance.​ ​I ​work in a medical center where a significant proportion of employees and leaders have been there for 10, 15 and even 30 years.

Oxford TRIZ Live: Fundamental Problem Solving is the first Oxford TRIZ online course - taught in 10 hours over 5 days through webinars and interactive workshops. It launched in April with great success, selling out all places and is currently running monthly during lock down. We asked some of the attendees from the launch what they thought, including Faith, featured below:

Newton was in lock down when his theory of gravity / laws of physics became clear to him – he had been sent back to his family home from Cambridge because of a plague outbreak. It was thought that the overworked postgraduate needed the break from teaching and research to allow time and peace to do their work on his brain and thoughts.

I’ve read a lot of posts recently about how the world will never be the same after the Covid-19/Coronavirus pandemic. How, at least for sure in the first world, people have been forced to work from home, which has shown that it is much more possible than many would have had you believe. Even with one-year old twins hanging off your arms…