TRIZ Articles & Keynote Speeches

Oxford Creativity's free Articles and Keynote Speeches provide powerful insights into TRIZ. Oxford Creativity's team of TRIZ experts and our community of 'TRIZniks' write regular articles about the power of TRIZ and Innovation. We share them here:

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A Tribute to Dr. Ellen Domb

Dr. Ellen Domb: 1946-2025. Engineer, TRIZ Pioneer and Teacher. 

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TRIZ & Software Evolution

"apply TRIZ’s Trends of Evolution to guide the software developer to evolve their systems. We also present the case of a real software system that has evolved accordingly and to which the evolution roadmap has been planned"

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TRIZ & Other Toolkits

Using TRIZ to Manage Real World Requirements

"...The TRIZ techniques of the 'nine-boxes' and Separation Principles for the resolution of Physical Contradictions are simple, yet powerful, tools..." 

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TRIZ & Other Toolkits

Oxford TRIZ & RCA Methods

TRIZ - essential to anyone using Root Cause Analysis (RCA) Toolkits. Read about the Oxford TRIZ approach to uncovering causes of problems and support RCA, summarised as a 10-step process.

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TRIZ & Other Toolkits

TRIZ, Theory of Constraints (ToC) & Lean

"...TRIZ is not based upon completely novel ways of solving problems, but instead it works by taking existing methods and techniques... making them accessible and usable to all problem solvers..." 

 

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TRIZ & Other Toolkits

Lean & TRIZ: Why Teams Need Both

"...TRIZ offers new and different tools which complete all other better-known toolkits especially in situations for which LEAN was never developed. Oxford TRIZ offers a structured approach to find new and pragmatic solutions taking teams far beyond random brainstorming..."

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Quality & Innovation - Do They Need TRIZ?

"...As an advocate of the TRIZ toolkit (which offers systematic innovation and problem solving) I was intrigued whether the TRIZ processes could be embedded into company systems in a similar way to quality processes..."