Case Studies

We  are known for the high quality of our training, innovation and consultancy services provided in-house to customers. We have successfully embedded TRIZ capability in many major global companies from a wide range of industries including food, aerospace, oil and gas, automotive, pharmaceutical, and nuclear.

Among our clients are Rolls-Royce, Sanofi, MBDA, SBM, Saint Gobain and BAE Systems.

All our Case Studies

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TeamTRIZ
Management

Future of the Friends

Oxford Creativity's Team TRIZ workshop helped the Friends society of a UK Cathedral understand both what they wanted, and how to plan their future.

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Problem Solving

National Highways & Road Cones

National Highways achieved dramatic cost savings when their TRIZ team in Bristol invented a £50,000 solution to a problem they had a £10 million budget to solve. 

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Problem Solving

Research Sites Restoration Limited (RSRL)

Even with complex technical problems, Oxford TRIZ tools works fast and efficiently. Read how RSRL used Oxford TRIZ to improve their estimating process for the clean-up of contamination and revise the process for estimating nuclear de-commissioning.

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Software
Problem Solving

Logical routes to tackle Software Problems

Oxford Creativity are often asked if Oxford TRIZ can be used for software problems - the answer is yes! Find out how we use Oxford TRIZ to solve software problems using general examples to maintain confidentiality.

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Design
Innovation

Designing an Ideal Desk

Learn how brothers Diogo and Bernardo Pestana Campos used Oxford TRIZ principles to design the ideal adjustable portable desk, enabling a comfortable working posture anywhere and how they used Oxford TRIZ to get everything they wanted from the design.

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Management

Attracting Engineering Students

How the Bradford University Engineering Department used Oxford TRIZ problem solving techniques to attract talented local students, plus why Engineers need Oxford TRIZ.

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Innovation
Design

Submarine Design in a Changing World

Oxford Creativity has worked with BAE teams on many submarine problems. In this case study two TRIZ Champions from BAE explain how Oxford TRIZ helped them best frame challenges and plan the way forward.

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Problem Solving
Design

Improving the opening of the Bitesize Pouch

Learn how Mars used Oxford TRIZ, Function Mapping and TRIZ Trimming prompts to cleverly improve the opening of their bitesized packaging, saving money and becoming more sustainable.

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Innovation
Problem Solving
Patents & IP

Using Sustainable Innovation to Increase Sales

Find out how Oxford Creativity and TRIZ helped Sanofi implement Sustainable Innovation and achieve extraordinary revenue growth.

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Problem Solving
Design

Military Aircraft Regulation

Find out how BAE Systems used Oxford TRIZ Problem Solving Sessions to better understand and implement BAE's new role providing maintenance through the life of military aircraft.

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Innovation
Budgets

Industrial Fire Alarms

Find out how Oxford Creativity and TRIZ helped this company implement Sustainable Innovation, improving their existing product whilst cutting manufacturing costs by 50%.

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Problem Solving

Highways England & A-one+

Learn how Highways England and A-one+ used Oxford TRIZ to complement their LEAN successes, by solving three complex problems in just three-days.

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Management

Embedding TRIZ in a global company

BAE Systems have been using TRIZ for over 20 years. This case study examines the challenges of embedding TRIZ in a global company and how to overcome them.

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Budgets
Management

Buckinghamshire County Council

When Buckinghamshire County Council faced budget cuts they planned on axing the Legal and Democratic Services and outsourcing their work, until the LDS called in Oxford Creativity. Find out how using Oxford TRIZ the department were able to not just save money and their jobs, but make a profit.

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Bitesized

My Year with TRIZ

Dr. Heather Kitts, Head of Business Application and Data Architecture for IT Services at the University of Oxford tells us how she successfully introduced Oxford TRIZ to her team as 'a common language and a shared set of tools'.

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Bitesized
Problem Solving

Ceres Power: From Despair to Delight

Karen Gadd tells us about one of her favourite problem solving experiences. Ceres Power were stuck on a problem so urgent that work started over the Easter Holiday.