TRIZ/SI Level 1 Programme

TRIZ/SI Level 1 Programme

Welcome to the best place in the world to learn TRIZ and Systematic Innovation. Our 30 hour online Level 1 Appreciation course has been successfully completed by over a thousand learners from the corporate world. Now we’re making it available to individual subscribers. The curriculum has been divided into 60 lunch-break sized segments, each containing a video introduction from Darrell Mann, interactive slide content, exercises and a self-assessment.

After subscribing to the course, learners will be sent a digital token and instructions for accessing our dedicated portal. The portal will then allow learners to access the 60 sessions. Recognising that we all live busy lives, learners are given three-months access to the portal with full control to progress at their own speed, monitor progress, re-visit previous sessions, and visit some of the external links and references.

Here's the breakdown of the 60 sessions:

Module 1: Systematic Innovation – Big Picture & Finding The Right Problem

1. What Is Innovation?
2. What To Look For – Innovation Characteristics
3. Dynamics Of ‘Wow’
4. Why Do Most Innovation Attempts Fail?
5. Exemplar Failure Case Studies
6. S-Curves & Discontinuous Change
7. S-Curve Dynamics: Key Points On The Curve
8. ‘Normal’ Versus ‘Special’ World – Why Innovation Is Different To OpEx
9. Fundamental Limits – Getting Stuck At The Top Of The Curve
10. S-Curve Case Study – S-Curve Hierarchies & Where Are We ?
11. Psychological Inertia
12. Challenging Assumptions
13. Case Study – Save The Titanic
14. Even The Bad Stuff Is Good Stuff – Turn Harm Into Resource
15. Combinations and Partial Resources
16. 9-Windows I – Thinking In Space & time
17. 9-Windows II – For Problem Solving
18. 9-Windows III – For Big Picture Thinking
19. Six Thinking Hats
20. Being Wrong
21. Value Equation & Ideal Final Result (IFR) – The Innovation North Star
22. IFR & The Innovation Maze
23. IFR & ‘Self’
24. IFR & Ideal Attribute Mapping Case Study
25. IFR ‘TONGS’ Model – ‘Most Desirable Pragmatic Result’
26. Functions & Outcomes & Function Analysis I – Mapping The System
27. Function Analysis II – Looking For Improvement Opportunities
28. Function Databases – Accessing Relevant Solutions From Other Domains
29. Outcome Mapping & Intangibles (ABC-M Model) 
30. Divergence-Convergence Cycles For Difficult Problems, ‘Thinking Out Of The Box’ & Module Summary

Module 2: Systematic Innovation - Solution Generation Strategies

1. Contradictions, Conflicts, Trade-Offs, Paradoxes, Conundrums, Chickens, & Eggs
2. ‘Nothing New Under The Sun’ & 40 Inventive Principles Overview
3. Inventive Principles 1 & 2/’Separation’ Strategies
4. Inventive Principles 3, 4 and 33
5. Inventive Principles 5 & 6  
6. Inventive Principles 13 & 22
7. Inventive Principles 35, 28 & 36
8. Inventive Principles 18, 19, 20, 21 & 34
9. Inventive Principles 9, 10 & 11
10. Inventive Principle 7, 24 & 40
11. Inventive Principles 8 & 12 & Inventive Principles 15, 29 & 37
12. Inventive Principles 14 & 17 & Inventive Principles 30 & 31
13. Inventive Principles 26 & 27
14. Inventive Principles 23 & 25
15. Inventive Principles For Special Applications – 16, 32, 38 & 39
16. Quantity-First-Quality-Second – Clustering & Combining Partial-Solutions
17. Contradiction Matrix
18. Contradiction Matrix Case Studies
19. Every Problem Is Different & The Same – Abstraction
20. Other taxonomies (SCAMPER, random word, etc)
21. Complexity For Beginners
22. Cynefin
23. Sensemaking In Complex Situations – Perception Mapping
24. Perception Mapping Case Study
25. Vicious & Virtuous Cycles & S-Curves
26. An Overall Inventive Problem-Solving Process – Putting All The Pieces Together
27. Design Thinking - Alternative Perspectives
28. Start-To-Finish Case Study
29. Divergence-Convergence, You & The Workplace
30. Putting It All Together – Final Innovation Module Summary & Next Steps

Pricing: Level 1 Programme - £150.00 including VAT

Note: Once the course has been completed there is an option, at additional cost, to complete an assessment and receive certification for this course.