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TRIZ

A Tribute to Dr. Ellen Domb

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

Case Study
Management

Bradford University: Attracting Engineering Students

How the Bradford University Engineering Department used TRIZ Problem Solving techniques to attract Talented Local Students and why Engineers need TRIZ.

Case Study
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.

Case Study
Bitesized
Problem Solving
Featured

Ceres Power: From Despair to Delight with TRIZ

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.

Webinar
Patents & IP
Innovation

Developing your Patent Strategy with Oxford TRIZ

TRIZ is unique in that it is based upon patent analysis.  In this webinar, we introduce the TRIZ tools which are perfectly suited to circumvent and strengthen patents & enhance innovation.

Case Study
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.

Webinar
TRIZ
Innovation

Fast Innovation with TRIZ

An introduction to the unique TRIZ tools and processes used to achieve innovation. Use TRIZ to develop Genius Muscle Memory, build innovative cultural practices and come together for innovation.

Webinar
Innovation
Problem Solving

Fast Innovative Problem Solving with Oxford TRIZ

This webinar shows how the power of classical TRIZ is harnessed into fast, structured innovation with Oxford TRIZ  & how its tools enhance other toolkits, for both management and technical problems.

Case Study
TeamTRIZ
Management

Future of the Friends

With Oxford Creativity's assistance, the Secretary of the Friends held a Team TRIZ workshop designed to help the Friends of the Cathedral understand both what they wanted, and then how to plan their future.

Webinar
Design
Sustainability

Get Sustainable Now

This webinar reveals how the Oxford TRIZ tools offer practical ways to increase sustainability and reduce our harmful impacts on the environment through sustainable design and relevant innovation.

Case Study
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.

Case Study
Design
Innovation

How to Design an Ideal Desk

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

Case Study
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.

Case Study
Innovation
Problem Solving
Patents & IP

Increasing sales from $1.5 billion to $6 billion in 6 years

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

Case Study
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%.

Keynote Speech
Innovation

Karen Gadd's Innovation Keynote Speech

Watch Karen Gadd's keynote speech for EuroNorth Innovate. Learn why innovation is not always a good thing and how to tell the difference between good and bad innovation. 

Article
TRIZ & Other Toolkits

Lean and 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..."

Case Study
Software
Problem Solving

Logical routes to tackle Software Problems

Oxford Creativity are often asked if TRIZ can be used for software problems - the answer is yes! Find out how we use Oxford TRIZ to solve software problems with the general examples of quadratic equations and a mousetrap to maintain confidentiality.

Case Study
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 TRIZ to give her team as 'a common language and a shared set of tools'

Case Study
Problem Solving

National Highways & Road Cones

National Highways achieved dramatic cost savings when their TRIZ team in Bristol invented a £50,000 solution which needed only half a percent of their £10 million budget. 

Webinar
TRIZ & Other Toolkits

Oxford TRIZ & Root Cause Analysis & Other Toolkits

Find out what Oxford TRIZ adds to Root Cause Analysis and other toolkits. RCA without TRIZ generally tracks causes or predicts problems or failures but does not solve problems. See how TRIZ takes us beyond brainstorming to the best answers.

Article
TRIZ & Other Toolkits

Oxford TRIZ and 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.

Webinar
Problem Solving
TRIZ

Oxford TRIZ for Problem Solvers NOT Dummies

This  webinar explains how Oxford TRIZ shows clever people how to solve tough problems fast. Developing a clear path to follow using our signature TRIZ for Dummies handbook and its tools - both individuals and teams can hit the ground running to 'Think Like a Genius' using TRIZ for problem solving in challenging situations.

Webinar
Innovation
Patents & IP

Oxford TRIZ for Strong IP and Patents

This detailed webinar shows how TRIZ tools are uniquely suited to stimulating innovation, strong IP and for creating & protecting patents.

Keynote Speech
TRIZ

Oxford TRIZ Teams can solve anything

"...In this keynote I offer the three basic approaches which have delivered fast TRIZ successes in my 20 year TRIZ journey. I learned these as I encountered encouragement, enthusiasm and support as well as opposition, indifference, hit many dead ends and endured many disappointments..."

Webinar
TRIZ
Problem Solving

Oxford TRIZ Trimming

Learn about the power of TRIZ TRIMMING in this webinar. See how you can use available resources to make intelligent choices and solve problems.

Webinar
TRIZ
Problem Solving

Problems TRIZ Solves Video

Karen Gadd explains the problems TRIZ solves to Peter Childs.

Article
TRIZ & Other Toolkits

Quality and 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..."

Case Study
Problem Solving

Research Sites Restoration Limited (RSRL)

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

Case Study
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 TRIZ helped them best frame challenges and plan the way forward.

Article
Software
TRIZ

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"

Webinar
Software

TRIZ for Software

The logic & rigour of TRIZ is powerfully exploited by many engaged in the development and application of software - from cyber security to new apps. We show TRIZ systematic processes and approaches ensure that solutions accurately meet requirements.

Article
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..." 

 

Case Study
TeamTRIZ
Budgets
Management

UK Ambulance Service

A TeamTRIZ workshop ensured this Ambulance Service sold their bid on benefits (not price). Despite higher costs, the Ideality TRIZ tool revealed how their service offered many more benefits with much higher Ideality than the taxi service.

Case Study
Problem Solving
Design

Using TRIZ Problem Solving to solve a Military Aircraft Regulation Problem

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.

Article
TRIZ & Other Toolkits
Featured

Using TRIZ to help 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..." 

Webinar

Women in Engineering - Battling 50 Years of Discouragement

Have you ever wondered why the UK has less female engineers than Saudi or how we can help more girls pursue technical careers? Did you know there's a link between your relationship with your father before the age of 2 and mathematical ability? This 45 minute webinar addresses the issue of gender imbalance in technical industries like engineering and showcases some examples of how TRIZ can help.

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