ETRIA World Conference TRIZ Future 2013

ETRIA’s TRIZ Future Conference 2013 took place in Paris, France on October 29-31, 2013. The event was organized by the Ecole Nationale d'Arts et Métiers (Arts & Métiers ParisTech) of Paris; ETRIA - The European TRIZ association; and was sponsored by CIRP, the international Academy for Production Engineering.

The conference gathered about 140 registered participants from many different countries. The event was pretty intensive: it featured 3 tutorials and 79 presentations in total including keynote talks and presentations at plenary sessions.

To help with relaxing a bit a very intensive 3-day program, the organizers provided top-notch lunches demonstrating fantastic flavours of French cousine, and the conference dinner was organized during a boat trip on Siene river to enjoy the lights of Paris at night.

Although the conference fee was a bit high this year (Paris has never been an inexpensive city), still the conference attracted a lot of people from both academia and industry, and I could clearly observe increase of interest in TRIZ from academia.

The next ETRIA TRIZ Future Conference will be organized on October 29-31, 2014 in Lausanne, Switzerland. See more details to come at www.etria.eu

Fall 2013: Basic and Advanced TRIZ Training and Certification for Technology and Engineering

Two public training and certification courses on TRIZ for Technology and Engineering are scheduled for Fall 2013:

1. September 24-25, 2013: 2-day Basic TRIZ and Systematic Innovation for Technology and Engineering: http://www.xtriz.com/Training/technology.htm
2. October 21-25, 2013: 5-day Advanced TRIZ and Systematic Innovation for Technology and Engineering: http://www.xtriz.com/Training/technologyAdvanced.htm

More information on our courses: http://www.xtriz.com/Training/

Systematic Business Model Innovation: September 18, 2013

The TRIZ way of thinking and solving innovative problems has been expanding to other areas besides technology and engineering. Recently we introduced a new approach for systematic business model innovation based on combination of several TRIZ tools for identifying and solving challenges to obtain innovative solutions for business models and business systems for virtually every business domain: from technology to banking and insurance.

This approach will be explained and practiced at my next training workshop "Systematic Business Model Innovation" which is scheduled for September 18, 2013 in Utrecht, The Netherlands.
More information is available at:

http://www.xtriz.com/Training/systematicbusinessmodelinnovation.htm

Now TRIZ Master

On August 3, 2013 during the TRIZFest 2013 Conference in Kiev I was awarded the official degree "TRIZ Master" by the decision of MATRIZ for my contribution to the development of TRIZ, TRIZ-related publications and practical experience. It was a very pleasant experience. The degree of TRIZ Master corresponds to the top level in the certification system by MATRIZ (level 5).

Besides me two more persons were awarded the TRIZ Master degree on merits: Jun-Young Lee from Samsung Electronics and Victor Menaker. Two other persons, Alexander Medvedev and Natalia Rubina successfully defended their TRIZ Master theses.

TRIZFest 2013 in Kiev

On August 1-3, 2013 I took part in the TRIZFest 2013 International Conference in Kiev, Ukraine organized by the International TRIZ Association MATRIZ. The conference program was quite filled with different kinds of events: pre-conference workshops and TRIZ Developers Summit, about 30 paper presentations, a meeting of the TRIZ Dissertations Council with TRIZ Master theses defense, and finally MATRIZ Congress with reports delivered by key MATRIZ officers and new decisions making regarding MATRIZ and TRIZFest conferences. About 80 visitors from over 20 countries attended the event.

Workshop of Systematic Business Model Innovation in Kiev

On July 31, 2013 I run a one-day preconference workshop "TRIZ-Based Systematic Business Model Innovation" in Kiev, Ukraine. We had a small but beautiful group of participants. I have been working on applying the TRIZ approach to innovating business models and systems since 2005 and so far most of experiments and pilots were successful. It is not surprising since evolution of both technology and business are evolution of man-made systems and seems to be governed by rather similar principles. Thus now it is time to move to a bigger audience.

My next training workshop "Systematic Business Model Innovation" which is scheduled for September 18, 2013 in Utrecht, The Netherlands. More information is available at:

http://www.xtriz.com/Training/systematicbusinessmodelinnovation.htm

TRIZ for Social Problems

After the TRIZ Fundamentals course I travelled to Prague to deliver a one-hour keynote talk at the conference on web-based communities within the IADIS 2013 series of conferences. This time my talk concerned application of TRIZ-based approach within social domain. The reaction of audience was very positive, we tried to use some basic TRIZ concepts during the lecture to approach and solve a social problem. We did not expect any breakthrough ideas within such a short time but it seemed like everyone agreed that there is a big potential for further exploring how the key concepts and approach behind TRIZ can be used for social problem solving and social innovation.

TRIZ Fundamentals 2013 finalized

The course "TRIZ Fundamentals 2013" gathered 50 participants this year. It was slightly over the limit but we allowed a greater number of students to register since we expected some last minute cancellations but they did not happen this time.

In addition to 41 B.Sc and M.Sc students we had 9 external guests from industry representing 5 countries.

All the participants were split to 15 groups and each group managed to perform 10 practical assignments. The workload was a bit heavy but at the end of the course everyone looked excited. The following subjects and tools were studied this year:

• TRIZ background and systematic approach to innovation
• Ideality and Ideal Final Results
• Evolution of technology through innovation
• Root Conflict Analysis
• 40 Inventive Principles
• Substance-Field Analysis
• 76 Inventive Standards
• Function Analysis
• Trimming
• Value Conflict Mapping
• Introduction to ARIZ
• Models of Technology Evolution
• Trends and Lines of Technology Evolution

At the end of the course each participant and student obtained a certificate of TRIZ Practitioner Advanced Level.

TRIZ Fundamentals 2013 started

On Monday July 8 started another "full immersion" two-week 80-hour training program TRIZ Fundamentals 2013 at Twente University in Enschede. This time there are 51 participants from 6 countries, including a mix of both university students and working professionals. 15 groups will perform 9 assignments during the course.

 

  

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

Online Training: TRIZ and Systematic Innovation tools

Since a while I have been running online training in TRIZ and Systematic Innovation. Recently I also added training in specific TRIZ tools for those who would like to study them in more depth than during regular "packaged" training:

http://www.xtriz.com/Training/online_training.htm

Updated: TRIZ and Systematic Innovation courses in 2013

PUBLIC COURSES, 2012:
December 12, 2012 Utrecht, Netherlands	One-day public training and certification: Systematic Creative Business Problem Solving
PUBLIC COURSES, 2013:
January 9-11, 2013 Utrecht, Netherlands	3-day public training and certification: Basic TRIZ and Systematic Innovation in Technology and Engineering
February 4-8, 2013 Utrecht, Netherlands	5-day public training and certification: Advanced TRIZ and Systematic Innovation in Technology and Engineering
April 3-5, 2013 Utrecht, Netherlands	3-day public training and certification: Extended RIZ and Systematic Innovation in Business and Management
July 2013 (TBD) Enschede, Netherlands	Two-week (80 hours) Summer Course TRIZ Fundamentals

Chapter about TRIZ and Technology Roadmapping in The Power of Design

My chapter about TRIZ and Technology Roadmapping was published in a new book:

The Power of Design: Product Innovation in Sustainable Energy Technologies

Edited by Angele Reinders, Jan Carel Diehl, Han Brezet

368 pages
November 2012
Wiley
ISBN: 978-1-1183-0867-7

TRIZ Future 2012: Brief Report

Last week I participated at the 12th ETRIA World TRIZ Future Conference in Lisbon, organized jointly by ETRIA, New University of Lisbon, and sponsored by a number of organizations. The conference was chaired by Dr. Cruz Machado and Prof. Helena Navas from the New University of Lisbon, and Dr. Tom Vaneker from ETRIA and the University of Twente.

The event went on October 24-26, 2012. The venue of the conference was at the university campus Caparica, located near the ocean which was really inspiring and provided naturally “fresh” atmosphere.

This time the conference gathered about 90 participants from 27 countries. About 60% of the conference participants represented Europe, 30% Asia Pacific, and 10% other parts of the world, including USA and Australia. The conference featured 4 keynote talks, 2 tutorials, and 60 presentations from 135 authors and co-authors: 28 scientific contributions, 23 practitioner contributions, and 9 short talks. Thanks to the introduction of “short paper” format several years ago, the conference allows short papers to be presented in 10 minutes that extends a number of live presentations at the event. Other papers were presented in a usual, 30 minutes format.

About 50% of the participants represented scientific and research institutions, and about 50% private and industrial organizations.

A full conference program is available. 698-page conference proceedings are available from the organizers. So far it has been the largest volume of the TRIZ Future conference proceedings.

I provided the introductory TRIZ tutorial for the conference participants at the first conference day and later presented a paper on "Functional Value Map" written by my colleagues Ives de Saeger and Kim Rutten.

Social events included the conference dinner, and a dinner with fados, traditional Portuguese style of music and singing. And there was really a lot of informal communication among the conference participants to exchange comments, opinions, ideas, and discussing future collaborations.

The official conference closing was followed by the ETRIA Members meeting where a new President of ETRIA was elected: Prof. Dr. Ir. Joost Duflou, from the K.U. Leuven, Belgium. Many thanks were expressed to Dr. Tom Vaneker, who served as ETRIA President in 2009-2012.

As usual, Ellen Domb, a former editor of the online TRIZ Journal, provided a live coverage of the event with many details, including comments on a number of presentations and keynote talks. See her blog posts about the conference.

The next edition of the conference will be held in Paris, France at the end of October – beginning of November 2013. See the forthcoming news at the ETRIA website.

 

 

 

 

  

 

"TRIZ Future 2012" Preliminary Accepted Presentations

ETRIA Global Conference "TRIZ Future 2012" will be held on October 24-26, 2012 in Lisbon, Portugal.

The list of preliminary accepted presentations:
http://triz.h4u.eu/TFC2012PresentationsPreliminary.pdf
The list of tutorials and keynotes:
http://www.trizportugal.com/keynote-speakers/
I will be running a basic tutorial in the morning during the first conference day.
More information on the conference is available at: http://www.trizportugal.com/