Book description
TRIZ is a brilliant toolkit for nurturing engineering creativity and
innovation. This accessible, colourful and practical guide has been
developed from problem-solving workshops run by Oxford Creativity, one
of the world's top TRIZ training organizations started by Gadd in 1998.
Gadd has successfully introduced TRIZ to many major organisations such
as Airbus, Sellafield Sites, Saint-Gobain, DCA, Doosan Babcock, Kraft,
Qinetiq, Trelleborg, Rolls Royce and BAE Systems, working on diverse
major projects including next generation submarines, chocolate
packaging, nuclear clean-up, sustainability and cost reduction.
Engineering companies are increasingly recognising and acting upon
the need to encourage successful, practical and systematic innovation
at every stage of the engineering process including product
development and design. TRIZ enables greater clarity of thought and
taps into the creativity innate in all of us, transforming random,
ineffective brainstorming into targeted, audited, creative sessions
focussed on the problem at hand and unlocking the engineers' knowledge
and genius to identify all the relevant solutions.
For good design engineers and technical directors across all
industries, as well as students of engineering, entrepreneurship and
innovation, TRIZ for Engineers will help unlock and realise the
potential of TRIZ. The individual tools are straightforward, the
problem-solving process is systematic and repeatable, and the results
will speak for themselves.
This highly innovative book:
- Satisfies the need for concise, clearly presented information
together with practical advice on TRIZ and problem solving algorithms
- Employs explanatory techniques, processes and examples that have
been used to train thousands of engineers to use TRIZ successfully
- Contains real, relevant and recent case studies from major blue
chip companies
- Is illustrated throughout with specially commissioned full-colour
cartoons that illustrate the various concepts and techniques and
bring the theory to life
- Turns good engineers into great engineers.
Karen Gadd
has been teaching TRIZ and problem solving with engineering teams from
major companies for over 13 years. Her mission is to make TRIZ learning
straightforward and the TRIZ Tools easy to use. She has worked on
nothing but TRIZ since discovering and learning its power to give us all
the routes, to all the solutions, to all engineering problems.
In 1998 Karen started Oxford Creativity to concentrate on developing
simple and practical TRIZ problem solving for the European market. Karen
has taken TRIZ to major companies including Rolls-Royce, British Nuclear
Group, Bentley Motors, BAE Systems, Nissan, Pilkington, Borealis and
Sanofi Aventis. Oxford Creativity is now well established as one of the
world's top TRIZ companies and has helped to make TRIZ well known and
widely used throughout Europe and encouraged top companies to create
expert TRIZ teams for innovative problem solving.
Karen studied Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College, and has an MBA
from London Business School. After working in strategy and corporate
planning in the City of London she returned to live in Oxford and was a
tutor at Oxford's Business School the European School of Management
ESCP-EAP (based in Paris, Oxford, Madrid and Berlin). From 1995-2002 she
was a Governor of Coventry University. Karen's career has been dedicated
to creating new enterprises which make a difference - she founded both
MUSIC at OXFORD and the European Union Baroque Orchestra and ran both
for over ten years and raised millions in corporate sponsorship to make
their activities possible. These successful music organisations still
flourish. MUSIC at OXFORD transformed Oxford's music scene and is now
approaching its 30th season of top professional classical concerts. EUBO
has celebrated 25 years of launching the careers of talented young
musicians and has been so successful in its mission, that there are now
former EUBO students in every major professional baroque ensemble in the
world. Karen launched Oxford Creativity to make TRIZ accessible to
everyone and transform and launch careers of TRIZ enthusiasts and
champions. There are now thousands of engineers who have learned TRIZ
from Karen and who intelligently daily apply TRIZ to solve difficult
technical and scientific problems.
Karen is long married, has four children and three grandchildren lives
happily in Oxford and the Lake District. Karen has recently become a
director of the Orchestra of St. John's and concerts and singing are
still part of her interests and activities.
