Gadd TRIZ for Engineers

Enabling Inventive Problem Solving
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-470-68433-7
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 504 Seiten, E-Book

TRIZ is a brilliant toolkit for nurturing engineering creativityand innovation. This accessible, colourful and practical guide hasbeen developed from problem-solving workshops run by OxfordCreativity, one of the world's top TRIZ training organizationsstarted by Gadd in 1998. Gadd has successfully introduced TRIZ tomany major organisations such as Airbus, Sellafield Sites,Saint-Gobain, DCA, Doosan Babcock, Kraft, Qinetiq, Trelleborg,Rolls Royce and BAE Systems, working on diverse major projectsincluding next generation submarines, chocolate packaging, nuclearclean-up, sustainability and cost reduction.
Engineering companies are increasingly recognising and actingupon the need to encourage successful, practical and systematicinnovation at every stage of the engineering process includingproduct development and design. TRIZ enables greater clarity ofthought 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 andunlocking the engineers' knowledge and genius to identify all therelevant solutions.
For good design engineers and technical directors across allindustries, as well as students of engineering, entrepreneurshipand innovation, TRIZ for Engineers will help unlock andrealise the potential of TRIZ. The individual tools arestraightforward, the problem-solving process is systematic andrepeatable, and the results will speak for themselves.
This highly innovative book:
* Satisfies the need for concise, clearly presented informationtogether with practical advice on TRIZ and problem solvingalgorithms
* Employs explanatory techniques, processes and examples thathave been used to train thousands of engineers to use TRIZsuccessfully
* Contains real, relevant and recent case studies from major bluechip companies
* Is illustrated throughout with specially commissionedfull-colour cartoons that illustrate the various concepts andtechniques and bring the theory to life
* Turns good engineers into great engineers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gadd, Karen

Weitere Mitwirkende

Goddard, Clive

Über Autor(innen)

Karen Gadd has been teaching TRIZ and problem solving withengineering teams from major companies for over 13 years. Hermission is to make TRIZ learning straightforward and the TRIZ Toolseasy to use. She has worked on nothing but TRIZ since discoveringand learning its power to give us all the routes, to all thesolutions, to all engineering problems.
In 1998 Karen started Oxford Creativity to concentrate ondeveloping simple and practical TRIZ problem solving for theEuropean market. Karen has taken TRIZ to major companies includingRolls-Royce, British Nuclear Group, Bentley Motors, BAE Systems,Nissan, Pilkington, Borealis and Sanofi Aventis. Oxford Creativityis now well established as one of the world's top TRIZ companiesand has helped to make TRIZ well known and widely used throughoutEurope and encouraged top companies to create expert TRIZ teams forinnovative problem solving.
Karen studied Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College, and hasan MBA from London Business School. After working in strategy andcorporate planning in the City of London she returned to live inOxford and was a tutor at Oxford's Business School the EuropeanSchool of Management ESCP-EAP (based in Paris, Oxford, Madrid andBerlin). From 1995-2002 she was a Governor of Coventry University.Karen's career has been dedicated to creating new enterprises whichmake a difference - she founded both MUSIC at OXFORD and theEuropean Union Baroque Orchestra and ran both for over ten yearsand raised millions in corporate sponsorship to make theiractivities possible. These successful music organisations stillflourish. MUSIC at OXFORD transformed Oxford's music scene and isnow approaching its 30th season of top professional classicalconcerts. EUBO has celebrated 25 years of launching the careers oftalented young musicians and has been so successful in its mission,that there are now former EUBO students in every major professionalbaroque ensemble in the world. Karen launched Oxford Creativity tomake TRIZ accessible to everyone and transform and launch careersof TRIZ enthusiasts and champions. There are now thousands ofengineers who have learned TRIZ from Karen and who intelligentlydaily apply TRIZ to solve difficult technical and scientificproblems.
Karen is long married, has four children and three grandchildrenlives happily in Oxford and the Lake District. Karen has recentlybecome a director of the Orchestra of St.John's and concerts andsinging are still part of her interests and activities.