Author: Karen Gadd, "How TRIZ completes all other innovation toolkits" 

Presenter:   Karen Gadd, Founder of Oxford Creativity

Abstract:

Karen Gadd examines how TRIZ completes all other innovation toolkits - filling in their gaps, complementing their power and efficacy to deliver a complete and effective toolkit. It offers a pragmatic view of how simple and straightforward it is to achieve TRIZ Innovation. The conclusions drawn are from 15 years of practitioner experience working with teams in global companies successfully implementing Oxford TRIZ in industry. It is based on TRIZ in action on all aspects of innovation, from idea generation of new concepts and products to IP and patents and tackling the most challenging, intractable and ‘unsolvable’ problems.

 Innovating the Innovators - although it is challenging for Innovation experts unfamiliar with TRIZ to accept new ideas on innovation - this explains how TRIZ could enhance their skills. For TRIZ Innovation experts this is a practical guide of how to keep it clear, and simple. Oxford TRIZ also offers humor through the special commissioned cartoons - as fun an important ingredient for creativity. It looks at innovation from a TRIZ viewpoint - offering answers to the following questions:

• Can TRIZ suggest how to solve the Fundamental Contradiction of Innovation?

• Innovation - outside TRIZ - is this the only part of all Business Toolkits which didn’t originate in engineering and manufacturing?

• Spontaneous Brainpower - does this conflict with Systematic Innovation?

• Why does the belief in brainwaves, chance ideas, coincidence all mitigate against accepting systematic creativity?

• Would great Inventors have always moved faster with TRIZ?

• Is TRIZ the only Innovation Problem Solving Toolkit?

• Can TRIZ predict when brainstorming will fail?

• Why does TRIZ need Brainstorming .... which also needs TRIZ?

• Why is there universal toleration of discontinuous processes and inconsistency in otherwise systematic toolkits?

• Can we always get Innovation on demand with TRIZ?

Biography:

Karen Gadd delivers TRIZ problem solving, working with managerial and engineering teams in many companies, both large and small, helping them develop new/next generation products, and resolve their most challenging issues. Her mission is to reveal the simplicity, rigor, and unique power of TRIZ.

In 1998 Karen founded Oxford Creativity - now run by her daughter Lilly Haines-Gadd who has established it as one of the world’s top TRIZ companies, helping global enterprises achieve innovative problem solving and developing their own expert in-house TRIZ teams. Together with their experienced TRIZ colleagues Karen & Lilly have taken TRIZ to many major companies including Rolls-Royce, British Nuclear, Bentley, BAE Systems, Nissan, Pilkington and Moog. The Oxford Creativity teams endeavor to help everyone locate for themselves clever, sustainable & cost-effective solutions to even the most intractable problems, by thinking more clearly and efficiently harvesting their own & the world’s knowledge.

Oxford Creativity is also famous for its TRIZ cartoons, commissioned for over a decade from Oxford’s Clive Goddard. There are over 200 featured in Karen’s popular TRIZ for Engineers book - which has been translated into many languages. Karen’s TRIZ publications reveal the fun of problem solving, showing how TRIZ activates and enhances our own brain power, knowledge and experience. She has recently completed a TRIZWIZ children’s book and TRIZBIZ for Top Managers.

Karen studied at Imperial College, and London Business School. After working in strategy in the City of London she returned to Oxford, teaching at Oxford’s European Business School ESCP - EAP (based in Paris, Oxford, Madrid & Berlin) and serving as a Governor of Coventry University. Karen’s has created many new, successful and innovative enterprises which make a difference including MUSIC at OXFORD and the European Union Baroque Orchestra - raising millions in corporate sponsorship to ensure their success.

Author: Jack Hipple, "The Ideal Result"

Presenter:   Jack Hipple, Principle of Innovation-TRIZ, Tampa, Fl.

Abstract: Jack will cover in an entertaining and informative way the basics of Classical TRIZ. Jack relates TRIZ theory to everyday situations where you may already be using TRIZ tools without knowing it. People raves about how Jack breaksdown complicated processes into simple, easy to understand concepts that you will be able to use after this Tutorial.

Biography:

Jack Hipple is Principal of Innovation-TRIZ, an innovation and chemical engineering training and consulting firm based in Tampa, FL., USA.

Jack is a ChE from Carnegie Mellon University, and spent 30 years in industry focusing on breakthrough research and engineering, including responsibility for Dow Chemical’s Discovery Research Director and Director of Chemical Engineering R&D. He was project manager for foreign technology sourcing and management practices at the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences, and Product Development Manager at both Ansell Edmont and Cabot Corporation. He has led on site chemical engineering training for General Mills, Sabic Plastics, Victoria and Brazosport Community Colleges and the U.S. Department of Homeland Securit and has taught graduate level Inventive Problem Solving and TRIZ courses for Baylor, Eastern Michigan University, and the University of South Florida. He has served on the chemical engineering department advisory boards of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of South Florida. In 2011, he was elected to the national Board of Directors of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, having previously served as chair of its Management Division.

His TRIZ corporate clients have included Owens Corning, Siemens, MEDRAD, Bandag, Ariel Corporation, Corning, Dow Chemical, GAF, GM, Honeywell, Hollingsworth and Vose, Johnsonville Sausage, Lockheed Martin, Mead Westvaco, M&M Mars, MEDRAD, Mosebach Resistors, NCH Corporation, Eastman Chemical, S.C. Johnson, Air Products, the Tampa SOCOM military base, the Bank of Montreal, and James Hardie building products.

Jack is the author of the latest book on breakthrough problem solving, “The Ideal Result: What It Is and How to Achieve It” (Springer, 2012), and has written several articles for Chemical Engineering Progress, Quality World, Research-Technology Management, and Leaders in Action. He is a certified TRIZ Practitioner by the Altshuller TRIZ Institute as well as a certified KAI™ and Myers Briggs practitioner.

Presenter:   Karen Gadd, Founder of Oxford Creativity

Abstract:

Karen Gadd examines how TRIZ completes all other innovation toolkits - filling in their gaps, complementing their power and efficacy to deliver a complete and effective toolkit. It offers a pragmatic view of how simple and straightforward it is to achieve TRIZ Innovation. The conclusions drawn are from 15 years of practitioner experience working with teams in global companies successfully implementing Oxford TRIZ in industry. It is based on TRIZ in action on all aspects of innovation, from idea generation of new concepts and products to IP and patents and tackling the most challenging, intractable and ‘unsolvable’ problems.

Innovating the Innovators - although it is challenging for Innovation experts unfamiliar with TRIZ to accept new ideas on innovation - this explains how TRIZ could enhance their skills. For TRIZ Innovation experts this is a practical guide of how to keep it clear, and simple. Oxford TRIZ also offers humor through the special commissioned cartoons - as fun an important ingredient for creativity. It looks at innovation from a TRIZ viewpoint - offering answers to the following questions:

• Would great Inventors have always moved faster with TRIZ? 

• Is TRIZ the only Innovation Problem Solving Toolkit?

• Can TRIZ predict when brainstorming will fail?

• Why does TRIZ need Brainstorming .... which also needs TRIZ?

• Why is there universal toleration of discontinuous processes and inconsistency in otherwise systematic toolkits?

• Can we always get Innovation on demand with TRIZ?

Biography:

Karen Gadd delivers TRIZ problem solving, working with managerial and engineering teams in many companies, both large and small, helping them develop new/next generation products, and resolve their most challenging issues. Her mission is to reveal the simplicity, rigor, and unique power of TRIZ.

In 1998 Karen founded Oxford Creativity - now run by her daughter Lilly Haines-Gadd who has established it as one of the world’s top TRIZ companies, helping global enterprises achieve innovative problem solving and developing their own expert in-house TRIZ teams. Together with their experienced TRIZ colleagues Karen & Lilly have taken TRIZ to many major companies including Rolls-Royce, British Nuclear, Bentley, BAE Systems, Nissan, Pilkington and Moog. The Oxford Creativity teams endeavor to help everyone locate for themselves clever, sustainable & cost-effective solutions to even the most intractable problems, by thinking more clearly and efficiently harvesting their own & the world’s knowledge.

Oxford Creativity is also famous for its TRIZ cartoons, commissioned for over a decade from Oxford’s Clive Goddard. There are over 200 featured in Karen’s popular TRIZ for Engineers book - which has been translated into many languages. Karen’s TRIZ publications reveal the fun of problem solving, showing how TRIZ activates and enhances our own brain power, knowledge and experience. She has recently completed a TRIZWIZ children’s book and TRIZBIZ for Top Managers.

Karen studied at Imperial College, and London Business School. After working in strategy in the City of London she returned to Oxford, teaching at Oxford’s European Business School ESCP - EAP (based in Paris, Oxford, Madrid & Berlin) and serving as a Governor of Coventry University. Karen’s has created many new, successful and innovative enterprises which make a difference including MUSIC at OXFORD and the European Union Baroque Orchestra - raising millions in corporate sponsorship to ensure their success.