INSIDE TRIZ
December 2009
Shree Phadnis
One of the earliest tools that people get acquainted with during the education of TRIZ is the contradiction matrix and the 40 principles. While on the initial looks this tool looks very simple and easy to apply in actual application of the tool, people often struggle. The primary reason for the creation of the tool was to reduce the unnecessary trials that an inventor would often go through using classical trial and error approach.