C-4 Patterns of Invention to Predict the Future
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.The challenge of individuals and organizations trying to forecast the future development of technological systems has never been greater. The breakthrough algorithm and tool kit known as TRIZ (Russian acronym for a Theory of Solving Problems Inventively) has been used by many organizations in the United States for problem solving, as well as for predicting and forecasting the development of technical systems. This technique, based on the study and organization of the world’s most inventive patents, has found its way from the former Soviet Union into the core skills of leading technologists in the Western world, including corporations such as Motorola, Dow Chemical, and S.C. Johnson. There is a predictable pattern in the evolution of technological and organizational systems, which has come from study of millions of the world’s patents and organizational innovations. Identifying the unique problem-solving approaches used in the small faction of patents and organizational breakthroughs that are truly breakthrough and innovative provides the basis for the key underlying principles of the methodology.
This intensive one-day course will introduce participants to the underlying principles of TRIZ, including ideality, resources, contradictions, separation principles, and the lines of technological evolution. Real case study examples give the opportunity to use the techniques to forecast and plan. Attendees will have the opportunity to develop a unique forecasting diagram for their own problem area of concern.
Who should attend: Senior research, technology, and planning individuals with profit and nonprofit organizations who wish to develop a structured approach to futures forecasting.
What you’ll learn: How to use patterns of invention from all fields to improve their ability to plan for the future in a systematic way.
How this new knowledge can be applied: More effective organizational and business planning.
Jack Hipple, principal, Innovation-TRIZ; TRIZ trainer, American Institute of Chemical Engineers and American Society of Mechanical Engineers; past discovery research director and global chemical engineering research director, DOW Chemical; past new product development manager, Cabot & Ansell Edmont
$160 members/$210 nonmembers Register Now
World Future Society
7910 Woodmont Avenue, Suite 450
Bethesda, MD 20814 U.S.A.
Tel: 301/656-8274 • Fax: 301/951-0394 • E-mail: sechard@wfs.org
