Clarifies ideas, open questions, and testable next steps by framing the contradiction, identifying improving and worsening factors, and checking feasibility.
Which inventive principles resolve the identified contradiction, and which concrete concepts emerge when these principles are applied to the problem?
The method helps clarify ideas, open questions, and testable next steps concretely. It opens the thinking space, bundles ideas, and leads to testable options. The result is captured as a Contradiction Statement, Inventive Principles, and Solution Concepts.
The team follows the steps: frame the problem and contradiction, identify improving and worsening factors, select principles, derive solution ideas, and check feasibility. Each step is captured visibly. At the end, a Contradiction Statement, Inventive Principles, and Solution Concepts are available so decisions, tests, or actions can follow directly.
Method sketch for a quick mental model.
The runsheet guides execution with 4 phases, timeboxes, 5 pitfalls, and clear stop criteria.
Open runsheetTRIZ follows a clear working logic: frame the problem and contradiction, identify improving and worsening factors, select principles, derive solution ideas, and check feasibility. This turns the method into a visible thinking process rather than only a conversation. Participants move step by step from raw material, observations, or options toward a shared structure. The result is a Contradiction Statement, Inventive Principles, and Solution Concepts that make decisions, learning, or further planning actionable.
Prepare a clear guiding question, the right information, and a visible workspace. Plan about 1-4 h with 2-8 people and use the format either in a workshop or asynchronously. The facilitation needs noticeable structure and preparation; short timeboxes, visible intermediate results, and a parking lot for open questions help.
Compact working template for TRIZ with contradictions, inventive principles, and solution concepts.
Use contradiction-driven thinking to generate solution concepts for complex problems.
What problem or trade-off should the group analyze?
Owner, date, and success signal.
Short decision aid for existing alternatives.
Statt TRIZ, wenn du mit SCAMPER eine bestehende Idee über feste Veränderungsfragen gezielt variieren willst.
Turns ideas, open questions, and testable next steps into a tangible result by naming the improvement goal, stating the worsening side effect, and refining and testing solution ideas.
Turns ideas, open questions, and testable next steps into a tangible result by defining the central challenge, deriving eight major themes, and shortlisting ideas.
Turns ideas, open questions, and testable next steps into a tangible result by defining the problem and dimensions, collecting alternatives per dimension, and working out compelling concepts.
Turns ideas, open questions, and testable next steps into a tangible result by choosing an object or problem, working through SCAMPER questions, and prioritizing concepts.
Statt TRIZ, wenn du mit SCAMPER eine bestehende Idee über feste Veränderungsfragen gezielt variieren willst.
Turns ideas, open questions, and testable next steps into a tangible result by mapping the challenge, sketching solutions, and testing with users.
Turns ideas, open questions, and testable next steps into a tangible result by performing empathy-based research, defining the problem, and testing and iterating with users.