The Creative Process
Design teams are guided by established best practices, common experiences and tribal knowledge. Developing something new
tends to be an empirical creative process that does not conform to well-defined processes. Yes, there is a development process that is used as a
framework, but one still must provide the creative environment for innovation.
We have been eating
meat since the beginning of time. Bread has been with us for thousands of years.
So why was the sandwich invented just a few hundred years ago?
Innovation and Design Concepts
In this one-day class, Innovation in Design Engineering, you will learn how to create and produce
successful products to WOW your customers. You will discover how existing paradigms and psychological inertia affect your decision making and
thinking processes. Topics covered include: understanding paradigms, exploring creativity, the innovation process, Theory of Inventive
Principles from Russia (TRIZ), the difference between known and inventive solutions, understanding contradictions, and Advanced
Systematic Inventive Thinking (ASIT).
Thinking Outside the Box
In this presentation we will explore the art and science of Innovation. Problems, exercises, and examples will
be used to demonstrate the concepts and practice of “thinking outside the box.” In the end you will have discovered dramatic ways of increasing
and understanding your creative productivity.
Innovation in Design Engineering - Course Outline
Session 1 - Introduction
- Personal Objectives
- Course Objectives
- Course Outline
Session 2 - Introduction to Creativity
- The Current Process of Innovation is Ineffective
- Uncertainty Management
- Which One is Different?
- Creative Tips
- Creativity Exercise
Session 3 - Paradigms
- Understanding Paradigms
- Video-“New Business of Paradigms”
- What are Your Paradigms?
- Paradigms and Word Problems
Session 4- Theory of Inventive Principals from Russia (TRIZ)
- Origins of TRIZ
- TRIZ Foundations
- Five Levels of Invention
- Two Problem Types: Known and Inventive
- Psychological Inertia
- Contradictions
- Patterns of Evolution and Invention
- Law of Accelerating Returns
- Exponential Rate of Change
- TRIZ Characteristics & Process
- Law of Ideality
- Altshuller’s Parameters
- TRIZ Case Study
- TRIZ Examples and Solutions
Session 5- Advanced Systematic Inventive Thinking (ASIT)
- Ideas from Constraints
- The Six ASIT Tools
- ASIT Exercise
- ASIT Tools in Depth
- ASIT vs. Brainstorming
- Questions to find a “Creative” Solution
Session 6- Course Summary
- Were your Course Objectives Achieved?
- Do you have suggestions for Course changes?
- Complete Course Evaluation
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