Altshuller Genrich. The Innovation Algorithm: TRIZ, systematic innovation, and technical creativity

Translated by Lev Shulyak and Steven Rodman. — Technical Innovation Center, Inc., 1999. — 312 p. — ISBN: 9780964074040, 0964074044.A milestone in the development of the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ), this book is the result of over twenty years of research and analysis. Altshuller details TRIZ's problem solving algorythm (ARIZ) that can produce innovation of the highest order. Saturated with profound thoughts, insights, and examples, this book is regarded by many as Altshuller's magnum opus, his handbook for a creative and technological revolution.Three Questions: Altshuller’s Last Interview
Three Tributes
The Innovation Algorithm
Technology of Creativity
A Needle in a Hay Stack
Levels of Creativity
Inventing Methods of Inventing
Through Knowledge, Numbers
The Ideal Machine
Technical Contradictions
The Dialectic of Invention
Step-by-Step
An Alloy Made of Logic, Intuition and Skills
The Inventor’s Instruments
How the Algorithm Works
Several Exercise Problems
«Patented» in the Paleozoic Era
Breaking an Old Structure
Man and Algorithm
Psychological Barriers
The Power of Fantasy
Over Barriers
Scientific Structure of Creative Work
Appendixes
Contradiction Matrix with the 40 Principles
Using the Contradivtion Matrix
The Contradiction Matrix
40 Principles
General Tendencies of Technical System Evolution
Supplemental Material
Author’s Certificate
Altshuller’s «TRIZ Masters»
TRIZ Providers
About the Author, Genrich Altshuller
About the Translators