Systematic Innovation and Creativity
Typical Situations
Does your company struggle to develop creative and innovative product ideas?
You need to fuel your company’s innovation engine but don’t want to rely anymore on some guided brainstorming sessions and a very few geniuses?
You are looking for innovation to become an all-time event that is manageable?
Our Solution
With systematic innovation you can make your innovation process manageable, continuous, and predictable. It becomes available to everyone involved in the innovation process and increases the innovation potential of organizations and individuals. We educate and implement the most effective innovation methods that systematically:
- accelerate the development of innovative solutions for conceptual or design problems,
- generate and develop breakthrough ideas for new products, processes and services,
- create future generations of products, processes, services and technologies.
Our Methods
Innovensys offers the following systematic innovation and structured creativity methods:
- TRIZ, a Russian acronym for TIPS (Theory of Inventive Problem Solving),
- USIT (Unified Structured Inventive Thinking).
TRIZ
Genrich Altshuller, a Russian engineer, investigated more than two million globally distributed patents and discovered that innovation is not a random process, but is governed by set principles and follows well-worn patterns that everyone can learn. Leveraging these codified principles and patterns helps to overcome psychological inertia, where familiar solution directions are pursued and alternative solution paths go unexplored. This forces organizations and individuals to systematically look for ideas outside their normal search space.
Innovensys supports clients with the more classical TRIZ tools and concepts:
- Ideal Final Result,
- Functional Analysis & Trimming,
- Multi-Screen Diagram,
- Resource Analysis,
- Trends of Technology and Product Evolution,
- 40 Inventive Principles for Technical Contradictions,
- Separation Principles for Physical Contradictions,
- Substance Field Analysis,
- 76 Inventive Standards,
- Databases of Scientific Effects,
- Modeling with Miniature Dwarfs,
- Algorithm of Inventive Problem Solving (ARIZ-85C).
USIT
Unified Structured Inventive Thinking is a structured, creative problem-solving methodology for finding innovative solution concepts to engineering-design problems. USIT is related to Systematic Inventive Thinking (SIT), which originated in Israel and is related to TRIZ, but is a much simpler methodology. USIT enables to invent multiple solution concepts in a short period of time for technical problems in all fields. Key to this methodology is its ability to quickly establish unusual perspectives of a problem situation.
USIT uses either of two algorithms to analyze the problem:
- Closed World Method
- Particles Method
USIT uses six solution techniques to overcome psychological barriers and thoroughly examine the solution space:
- Uniqueness,
- Dimensionality,
- Pluralization,
- Distribution,
- Transduction,
- Generification
