Deep Dive: TRIZ for Lean Product Development

What do Russian engineers have in common with Japanese automakers? After WWII, while Taichi Ohno developed the Toyota Production System, Genrich S. Altshuller began analyzing patents to see how patterns of problems led to opportunities for reusing solutions. He worked quietly for over thirty years until the opening of the Soviet Union made his research available to the rest of the world.

TRIZ is one of the most powerful methods available for avoiding the waste of reinvention by reframing problems to get richer solution sets, and then using systematic methods to explore what others have learned about similar problems. Join Ellen Domb, founding editor of the TRIZ Journal to explore the synergies between TRIZ and lean product development.

Deep Dive sessions include a presentation to facilitate learning and dialogue, with ample time for Q & A and discussion. This is your opportunity to explore an aspect of lean product development in depth, and leave with ideas for how to make it work in your organization.