Introducing Systematic Innovation Murali Loganathan trizindia.org

How not to Innovate? By chance Only in think tanks / Secretly Only when asked By knowing everything or pretending By inspiration / flow / act

How else to Innovate? Being deliberate in – effort / investment Being open to – feedback / challenges / failure / new thinking / bizarre ideas Systematically

What is Systematic Innovation Design ThinkingLateral ThinkingLead User / Hype cycle / ChasmsSix SigmaPlay time / space / skunkworksFairs / Contests / BrainstormingTRIZ

Objective Reframe Solution Review Next Actions

Park Your Idea

Keep Constraints Out

Why? What is Stopping? Broader Problem Narrower Problem Original Problem

Ideal Final Result

IFR = Benefits / (cost + Harm)Heaven / Wonderland Free Perfect NowSelf Service What is the final aim of the solution? What about Sub-system and Super-system? Whose IFR are we thinking? Yourself, Customer, Competition, Supplier, … When do we intend to become Ideal? This quarter, end of year,

Ideal Final Result Qs What is the ideal final result, or what is ideally we want to achieve? Clean cloths, self cleaning cloths, cloths that never gets dirt What is stopping us to achieve this? Technology, costs, chemical reactions What is next ideal final result we want? Cloth get cleaned without washing powder What is stopping us to achieve this IFR? There is an external agent required to break the bond between dirt and cloths. Why is it stopping If the bond is not broken, the clothes aren’t cleaned How could you make the thing stopping to disappear If there was some other way of breaking the bond between dirt and clothes Has anyone else been able to solve this problem? Only the washing machine/powder industry has to solve this “clean clothes” problem, but many industries have to solve the more general “clean” or remove dirt problem. What are the resources available to me? Other industries, chemical, mechanical, electronics, air, sun, gas…

Simple Function Analysis

Function Analysis Steps 1. List all objects in the system - living or non- living 2. List all objects of the system interacts with - outside of the system 3. Connect the interacting objects using verbs and arrows 4. Classify the arrows as sufficient, insufficient, excessive and harmful

Resources Anything (that is) Free (and under utilized) has utility (for your problem)

Where to look for Resources? Around and Inside the System Other uses of Functions performed Man, Material, Machine, Signals, Relations, Money, Space, Time,... Services

Levels of Invention Number of Patents $$ realized Level of Invention

Knowledge base – Limit and Opportunities What I know I know What I know I don’t know What I don’t know I don’t know – World’s knowledge base What is an orange juice manufacturing company doing? How does it happen in space?

Russian inventor Genrich Altschuller in the 1950s Wondered how people invent Looked for patterns of invention Investigated 200,000 inventions in the Russian patent database Found only 40 principles to invent across industries Proposed TRIZ, Theory of Inventive Problem Solving After 50+ years of Research 2 million patents have been investigated We still have only 40 principles for invention

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