Innovation is a necessary element in solving any important problem quickly that too at a low cost. Inventive thinking is at the heart of innovation.
Practical approaches to create innovation in daily life and work life.
Innovation concepts: Basic concepts on creation of innovative ideas and products.
Inventive principles: Based on which practical innovation can be created.
Systematic innovation: Creating innovative ideas or products systematically.
Innovations around us: Highlighting remarkable instances of innovation around us in common life.
Daily life examples of Other Way Round Inventive Principle and other inventive principles analyzed threadbare to increase awareness of inventiveness.
In a difficult problem situation, use the negative force as a positive one to inventively achieve great success that all thought impossible.
Inventive principle of flexibility may be used for creating positive results for the decision makers and the persons affected by the decisions as well.
If the geyser is fixed on the bathroom wall at a height below the shower, would I get warm water in my shower? That was the troubling question...
It was a short rise up the hill and the beautiful little bungalow lay serene at the top. After an open flat space in front the ground dropped stage by stage way below to the thin silver strand of a mountain river. The well wooded hill went up at the back providing deep green cover...
Take out a part from the whole and you have a new set of inventive ideas. Primarily, you are urged to take out a portion from the original object either to improve the use of the original or to use the taken out portion itself for new applications...
Ideal Final Result or IFR is the target solution to a problem that would remove all negative aspects without introducing any new drawback while preserving all the advantages of the old system. How much cost for this effort would IFR allow? IFR dictates that the all advantage no disadvantage solution must be achieved at zero additional cost. Though it seems impossible to achieve, if you set such a goal, you will be forced to reject ordinary easy pathways and strive towards the highest goal that can be imagined...
Common sense says, if you divide something into smaller pieces, value of the pieces taken together becomes less than the value of the whole. On second thoughts, can it be otherwise? Yes, it can. Dividing and sharing can sometimes result in surprisingly innovative solutions...
Inventive principle local quality is improving performance of an object or an area by identifying a special local quality and using it inventively.
40 TRIZ inventive principles, believed to be behind all innovations, nevertheless represent valuable abstraction of any new inventive idea.
