What is systematic innovation? What is TRIZ? Why is there so much hype?

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The book that was written three times:

10 October sees the official launch of our long-awaited, long-overdue Software Innovation text. The result of over 8 years of dedicated research into the underlying DNA of software innovation. It continues to stagger us that the original promise date for the book was back at the end of, gulp, 2004. How can anyone get their estimates so wrong? One of the reasons is that the theme of the book has shifted significantly since we first committed our programme of software innovation research. The first version of the book was merely intended to be a description of the tools emerging from the research. ‘We want more case studies’ people said. Enter the problem that nearly all of the case studies that people then volunteered turned out not to be software problems at all. So the book was re-written as a book to help software professionals see beyond their usually limited silo-mentality horizons. Twelve months later and the next round of market research said, ‘hey, this isn’t a software book’. And so we went back to the drawing board again to somehow solve the contradiction of making the book feel relevant to software engineers while at the same time getting them out of their (virtual) box and looking at the real world. Advance orders, if that thought hasn’t put you off, can be placed by filling in the fax-back form. The first 100 orders will receive copies marked with the real-life blood, sweat and tears of the author.

          480 pages of world re-defining software innovation insight

          check out the foreword from well-known IT author Bryan Maizlish here.

         There are approximately 1800 management texts published every year. No-one – least of all a busy manager – has the time to look at even a fraction of what is available. When we started applying the systematic innovation techniques to business situations back in the mid-1990s, we posed the question: What if we could distil all of the useful stuff from those 1800 management texts per year and present the results in a coherent and integrated manner?

          The result, Hands-On Systematic Innovation for Business & Management, focuses on tangible benefits (i.e. that it enables the reader to successfully tackle any problem or opportunity situation they are working on), rather than being just another collection of features.

         

     NEW: March 2007 – the new edition of the book is now available. Featuring new trends, updates to IFR, resources and (finally!) a one- sheet version of the Business Contradiction Matrix.

    Some say it’s better than the book. Read the new Foreword from the P&G Chief Creative Officer here

         The second edition of our main technical innovation text was published in October 2007,incorporating research findings subsequent to the original 2002 version.

          Now one of the biggest selling TRIZ/Systematic Innovation books ever.

          550 pages of innovation nuggets

    “it’s like five text books in one”

    “The best book on TRIZ bar none"

TRIZ Companion

140-page pocket book

containing essential

TRIZ information

Hands-On Systematic Innovation

(Japanese edition)

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from our Japanese partners:

Matrix 2003 (German Version)

Update of the contradiction

matrix from Classical TRIZ

Systematic (Software) Innovation

Complete new IT problem-solving/opportunity

finding methodology

£20 + shipping

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Innovation DNA

Innovation for Senior Managers

& Strategists. The whole

Innovation story in 30,000 words

(Available January 2009)

TrenDNA

Meta-Mega-Micro Consumer and Market Trends & Predicting Future

(Available March 2009)

Hands-On-Systematic Innovation Case Studies

A collection of case studies demonstrating the systematic implementation of innovation techniques

(Available March 2009)

MagNotes toolkit

Visualization aids to log and map brainstorming processes (magnetic, wipe-clean surface, colour-coded)

Innovation Toolbox

The Innovation Toolbox is a set of physical tools that can be passed around, written on, discussed and shared during brainstorming

Inventive Principles playing cards

Every playing card describes an Inventive Principle – one of 40 strategies most likely to solve a conflict situation
(temporary out of stock)

Trends of Evolution Cards

Laminated cards for Business and Technical applications – highly effective solution triggers for use during brainstorming

(from the Innovation Toolbox)

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