TRIZ and Systematic Innovation Training > Advanced Course for Business and Management

 
TRIZ-Based Systematic Innovation:
Extended Course for Business and Management


5
-day Hands-on Practical Training and Certification
September 22-26, 2008: Utrecht, The Netherlands

Course leader: Valeri Souchkov
 
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"After this course, I believe TRIZ has great potential for the business world. It is a powerful tool to get people out of their normal line of reasoning, and to achieve extraordinary results."

Principal Consultant, Capgemini
 

TRIZ & SYSTEMATIC INNOVATION FOR BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT
This new and unique intensive hands-on course targets at learning and mastering skills with modern TRIZ and Systematic Innovation for Business and Management to increase innovative productivity and performance of organizations and individuals. The course provides understanding of basic principles of innovative and creative thinking and techniques of systematic innovation and explains how to put them in practice.

The acquired skills help the course participants to resolve conflicts, enhance the use of resources, innovatively improve systems and processes, and invent new ideas for products and services. In addition to learning about philosophy, key concepts, process, techniques and tools of Systematic Innovation, the participants acquire the basic practical skills of working with several key TRIZ and Systematic Innovation techniques during the course, such as problem and situation analysis, extracting root conflicts, resolving contradictions in "win-win" way, identifying and modeling system relationships.

The course is based a practical framework developed by ICG T&C during many years. It extends classical TRIZ and puts it to the practical use within business and management environments. It focuses on an overview, learning and practical use of the techniques for solving problems arising in products/services and in the creation of new generations of products/services. The course uses real examples to better understand the nature of TRIZ and the underlying philosophy and make it applicable to a large variety of problems, products and services.

The course usually hosts international audience and is conducted in English.

If you want to learn more about TRIZ-based systematic Innovation in business and technology, please download white paper Breakthrough Thinking with TRIZ for Business and Management  (20 pages, PDF)
 

WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Business managers, business development managers, business innovation professionals,  innovation managers,  new business product and service development professionals, Six Sigma specialists, creativity and innovation facilitators, team leaders, business process improvers, marketing and advertisement professionals, knowledge management professionals, consultants, lecturers.

No previous experience with TRIZ is required to attend this course.

 
If you have doubts if the course is appropriate to you, please contact us and we will assess your specific situation.
PROGRAM
  • Fundamentals of TRIZ and innovative thinking.

  • Understanding product and process evolution.

  • Key TRIZ concepts: ideality/Value, Ideal Final Result, Multi-screen diagram of thinking (9 Windows), Contradictions.

  • Overview of TRIZ techniques for business and management.

  • Root-Conflict Analysis (RCA+): understanding causes of problems and complexity of problems, extracting conflicts, mapping conflicts in the diagram.

  • Practice with RCA+ on solving business and management problems.

  • Contradiction Matrix

  • Inventive Principles for Business and Management

  • Practice with Contradiction Matrix and Inventive Principles

  • Patterns of System Transformation to eliminate negative and improve positive effects within business systems, processes and services.

  • Practice with Patterns of System Transformation

  • Trends of Evolution: Business Systems. Overview and practical application.

  • Value-Conflict Mapping to identify future opportunities.

  • Practical projects with learned techniques on the customer's problems; working in groups. 

  • TRIZ Implementation aspects.

  • Questions and Answers, Discussions.

To get a detailed program and brochure of the course, please contact us

WHAT YOU GET
  • Understanding Advanced TRIZ fundamentals and tools

  • Ability to perform analysis and innovative idea generation in a systematic way.

  • Learning TRIZ Trends of  Evolution.

  • Gaining practical skills with TRIZ to solve most difficult problems and generate new innovative ideas.

CERTIFICATION
Upon successful completion of the course, you will get a Certificate of TRIZ Practitioner.
COURSE LEADER
Valeri Souchkov, M.Sc, TRIZ Trainer and Expert, certified by the founder of TRIZ G. Altshuller. Since 1989 he trained more than 3.000 professionals worldwide, as well as assisted in corporate-wide TRIZ implementation programs. He conducted training and innovative project facilitation for many organizations, including Capgemini, DSM, DuPont, ING Bank, LG Electronics, Posco, Philips, Siemens.
Author of more than 50 publications on systematic innovation and IT support for innovation, as well as one of the developers of modern TRIZ and Systematic Innovation techniques.
 
Valeri was a co-founder of Invention Machine Corporation, currently the world leader in Computer-Aided Innovation and a co-founder and Executive Board Member of the European TRIZ Association (www.etria.net). He is also invited lecturer on TRIZ and Systematic Innovation at the University of Twente in the Netherlands.
PRICE
  • Price per seat: Euro 2.450,- (excl. Value-Added Tax).

  • Price includes: course materials, handouts, lunches, refreshments.

  • Accommodation is not included.

  • Prepayment before the starting course date is obligatory. In case of cancellation one month before the course starting dates, we provide 100% refund. Otherwise we retain 10% of the paid fee.

10% discount* is applicable in the following cases:

  • Two or more participants of the same organization visit the course.
  • A course is visited by an existing customer (individual or organization) of ICG T&C.
  • Payment of a course fee will be done at least 45 days prior to a course starting date.

* Discount is not cumulative

LOCATION
Utrecht is a central "hub" of the Netherlands which is is easy to reach from every direction and is situated within 30 minutes by direct train from Amsterdam airport Schiphol. Parking at the course location is included to the price.
Upon registration, we will provide you with details of the course location and a list of possible accommodations.
REGISTRATION
To register for the course, please visit our Registration page
QUESTIONS &
CONTACT
In case you have any questions, please contact us via e-mail or
+31-(0)6-20423455 / +31-(0)53-
2011174
 

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