TRIZ Training Workshops

In partnership with our sister company, Oxford Creativity, we will show you how to be innovative and solve your problems systematically with TRIZ. We will help you nurture, develop and sustain a culture of creative innovation with your organisation.

TRIZ (Theory of Inventive Problem Solving) was created by engineers, for engineers. TRIZ is a problem solving toolkit; the principal TRIZ tools direct us to find all the ways of solving a problem, to find new concepts and the routes for developing new products. TRIZ offers systematic innovation; by learning TRIZ and following its rules we can accelerate creative problem solving for both individuals and project teams.

Oxford Creativity's greatest success has been the development of a unique and effective TRIZ Learning Workshop Programme which can help anyone learn TRIZ, be effective and self sufficient in TRIZ problem solving in the minimum time possible.

Oxford Creativity has developed a programme of 5 intense days, in order to fit in with the busy schedule of the engineers and managers who learn with us. These 5 days are split into 3 workshops: Basic TRIZ, Advanced TRIZ and Facilitating TRIZ.

Basic TRIZ (2 days)

Day 1: Fast Track TRIZ
An introduction to and overview of the TRIZ tools, the TRIZ problem solving process and the fundamentals of creative problem solving and innovative thinking. You learn and use the TRIZ tools for developing systems and intellectual property protection (the TRIZ Trends of Technical Evolution) and for understanding and mapping problems and solutions (9 boxes).

Day 2: Solving Contradictions and Using Resources
Learn and use the TRIZ tools for solving technical and physical contradictions (40 Inventive Principles, Separation Principles, 39 Parameters and the TRIZ matrix), and learn how to solve problems cleverly by using what we have: our resources. You learn the TRIZ creativity tools of Ideal Outcome, X-Factor and Ideality, and learn how to use the TRIZ tools in combination to solve problems.

The workshop includes many exercises to help delegates learn the most easily accessible and perhaps the most useful innovation tools, the TRIZ tools for solving contradictions and generating new ideas. Delegates are given their own, easy to use and understand, copy of the Contradiction Matrix, the TRIZ 40 Principles (both for technical and business problems), and the 8 Trends of Evolution. These are for immediate personal use and to enable delegates to guide others to use the TRIZ Solution Triggers in problem solving sessions (including brain storming).

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Advanced TRIZ (2 days)

Day 3: Creativity Tools and Function Analysis
Learn the full tool-kit of TRIZ creativity tools and the powerful tool for mapping engineering systems, understanding systems and solving problems: TRIZ Function Analysis. Learn how to use the 9 Boxes in more advanced ways for understanding and predicting hazards and root cause problems.

Day 4: The Problem Solving Process and Standard Solutions
Complete your TRIZ toolkit by learning the TRIZ Standard Solutions, simple lists that will enable you to reduce costs, get rid of harms and improve benefits in any system. Learn how to use the TRIZ tools together in the systematic TRIZ problem solving process, using the Oxford Creativity TRIZ Problem Solving Pack.

Creativity Tools
There will also be a number of creativity tools to help delegates become familiar with simple but powerful tools to help break psychological inertia. These are tools for both problem understanding and solving and are clever techniques to help get the most out of your brain.

Creative team building is central to all the exercises in these workshops and our training days are designed to make maximum use of the time available and are rigorous, interactive and challenging. You are welcome to bring along your own problems to the workshop which will be included whenever possible. Each workshop lasts 8 hours and a substantial part of each day is taken up with learning exercises.

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Facilitating TRIZ (1 day)

If you want to go back into your organisation with TRIZ and lead successful problem solving sessions, don’t worry....someone has solved the problem before....

To run a successful problem solving, innovation or creativity workshop you need not only a powerful toolkit and method like TRIZ, but often a facilitator to guide the process and ensure that everyone is working effectively together.

Oxford Creativity has been facilitating problem solving workshops for over 13 years, and have extensive hands-on practical experience of how to make the most effective use of your organisation’s most powerful resource – your people’s time, energy and cleverness.

The workshop will focus on the following areas:
- Hands-on experience of facilitating the use of individual TRIZ tools
- Understanding the role of the facilitator
- Developing facilitation skills
- Tips and techniques for encouraging everyone’s innovation

Delegates will learn:

- How to prepare for and guide successful TRIZ problem solving sessions
- Tips and techniques for encouraging innovative thinking in others
- How to bring out creativity in everyone

The workshop includes many hands-on, practical exercises.

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