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Application of TRIZ for increase in competitivenessin economy and education

Anatoly Guin, TRIZ Master10th TRIZ Symposium
Tokyo, Japan
September 12th, 2014

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Globalization –regardless ofhow weperceive it isinevitable!

глобализацииEDUCATION FOR A NEW ERA

The World became “small”

Global competition between people and communities

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A tool and its effectivenessEDUCATION FOR A NEW ERA

A tool and its effectivenessктивностьEffectivenessgrew by thefactor of40 000!

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TRIZ: the trend of human displacement from technical system

EDUCATION FOR A NEW ERA+ a number and complexity of creative
problems is always increasingThat’s how great Archimedes saw this tendency…

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What’s left for a human is intellectual/creative activities.
Is it possible to increase efficiency of these activities?
And if so, how?

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An example of an intellectual tool
Math in 14th century Europe:x2 - 12x - 28 = 0

EDUCATION FOR A NEW ERAFORMULA FOR INTELLECTUALPRODUCTIVITY

Results = Pc x Pkn x Mo (1 + Т) x (1 + Met)
Where:Pc = Personal Capability
Pkn = Personal Knowledge
Mo = Motivation
T = Tools
Met = Methodology

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MARK BARKAN, USA

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Fortune 500 and TRIZ
Many of Fortune 500 companies use TRIZ

Ray Ogle, “This new problem solving methodology may become an important
Vice president of Johnson & Johnson innovation for research and development – our main weapon against
the competition”.
Dr. Douglas Partridge, “TRIZ methodology quickly leads us to promising solutions. It is much
Rockwell International more systemic and scientific than traditional brainstorming”.
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Areas of TRIZ application

ExamplesEDUCATION FOR A NEW ERA

Manufacturing of Roll RoofingProblems• Energy intensive• Large size
• Tape stays wet too often• Requires more power
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TRIZ effectiveness: problem solving

Solution• Reduced energy consumption by a factor of 5
• Tape completely dries• Size is significantly reduced• No need for increase in power
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A small office of a financial company.
They must issue various sums of money to several thousand people in 2-3 days
A crowd may form, containing a lot of elderly people, who will complain about having
to stand in line without any comfort.
What to do?

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Education is the only tool for direct management of the future!

EDUCATION FOR A NEW ERA– Why it is useless to make an attempt to convince ahog to study the astronomy?

EDUCATION FOR A NEW ERA– Because it never saw the sky!

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In a dynamic informational world:– Knowledge is more important than natural
resources– Skills are more important than knowledge– An ability to learn is more important than skills– An ability to creatively process knowledge is more
important than an ability to learn

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Innovation in education
Equipment
Structuring of
educational process
On a classlevel
On a schoollevel…

Content ofeducation

On a level ofsingle discipline

On the level ofa worldwide education
systemFor thinking
methods

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Working with contradictions– clash of cultures = contradictions– clash of the techno-sphere and the biosphere on
the planet = contradictions
The traditional school doesn’t teach how to solve
contradictions

EDUCATION FOR A NEW ERAWorking with poorly organized information
Necessitates:- an ability to quickly identify useful data
- work under conditions of insufficient and excessive amounts of information- recognize manipulative influence from the media and various groups of people- An ability to recognize various types of knowledge: domestic, religious,
scientific ... Understand how to construct different knowledge systems

The traditional school doesn’t teach how to work withvarious types of information!

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TRIZ-pedagogy
Development of Creativity
Teaching how to solve various problems:— open— creative— heuristic— research— inventive

EDUCATION FOR A NEW ERABIOLOGY: Whales in rivers
Whales are marine animals. But sometimes they come into the mouth oflarge rivers. Very often, for example, whales may be observed at the mouthof the Zaire River. How can this be explained?

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PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY:
Towards open water
Beginning of the 20thcentury. Laptev Sea.
Navigation season isnearing the end. Ice forms
around the steamer"Gauss" due to freezing
temperature at night.
There is just one kilometerto open water. During the
day the sun is bright, butthere is not enough time
melt the ice.
What to do?

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BUSINESS: Shine always,
shine everywhere…
During an energy crisesin Holland thegovernment introduced
austerity measures. Even
store windows remained
dark at night. Thismeasure really affectedjewelry store owners forjewelry look best when
the light is shining. But
the store windows aredark. What should
jewelry store owners do?

EDUCATION FOR A NEW ERA“Thereissomethingmightier than all the armiesof the World: the idea
whose time is now!”
Victor Hugo

EDUCATION FOR A NEW ERACountries, which support education
with scraps, would have to becontent with scraps in every otherarea of their lives.

Anatoly Guin