This book presents a collection of the most current research into systemic creativity and TRIZ, engendering discussion and the exchange of new discoveries in the field. With chapters on idea generation, decision making, creativity support tools, artificial intelligence and literature based discovery, it will include a number of instruments of inventive design automation. Consisting of 15-20 chapters written by leading experts in the theory for inventive problem solving (TRIZ) and adjacent fields focused upon heuristics, the contributions will add to the method of inventive design, dialogue with other tools and methods, and teaching creativity in management education through real-life case studies.
Part I Advances in Theory and Applications of TRIZ.- 1 Current Stage of
TRIZ Evolution and Its Popularity.- 2 Design for Change: Disaggregation of
Functions in System Architecture by TRIZ-Based Design.- 3 Systematic
Innovation in Process Engineering: Linking TRIZ and Process Intensification.-
Heuristic Problems in Automation and Control Design: What Can Be Learnt from
TRIZ?.- 5 The Adaptive Problem Sensing and Solving (APSS) Model and Its Use
for Efficient TRIZ Tool Selection.- 6 Case: Can TRIZ Functional Analysis
Improve FMEA?.- 7 A TRIZ and Lean-Based Approach for Improving Development
Processes.- 8 A Method of System Model Improvement Using TRIZ Function
Analysis and Trimming.- 9 Function Analysis Plus and Cause-Effect Chain
Analysis Plus with Applications.- Part II Advances in Tools and Technologies
for Creating New Innovations.- 10 Identification of Secondary Problems of New
Technologies in Process Engineering by Patent Analysis.- 11 Control Design
Tools for Intensified Solids Handling Process Concepts.- 12 Anticipatory
Failure Determination (AFD) for Product Reliability Analysis: A Comparison
Between AFD and Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) for Identifying
Potential Failure Modes.- 13 Computer-Aided Conceptual Design of Building
Systems: Linking Design Software and Ideas Generation Techniques.- 14
Optimized Morphological Analysis in Decision-Making.- 15 Engineering
Creativity: The Influence of General Knowledge and Thinking Heuristics.- Part
III Advances in Managing Innovations and the Innovation Process.- 16
Levelized Function Cost: Economic Consideration for Design Concept
Evaluation.- 17 Reflecting Emotional Aspects and Uncertainty in Multi-expert
Evaluation: One Step Closer to a Soft Design-Alternative Evaluation
Methodology.- 18 Using Innovation Scorecards and Lossless Fuzzy Weighted
Averaging in Multiple-criteria Multi-expert Innovation Evaluation.- 19
Innovation Commercialisation: Processes, Tools and Implications.
Leonid Chechurin is Professor at the Industrial Management Department of Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland. He is also the Head of the System Engineering group at LUT, and Visiting Professor at St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University, Russia. His research interests focus on the analysis of systems dynamics based on mathematical modelling, stability analysis, control, the systematic approach for inventive thinking and innovation automation tools.
Mikael Collan is Professor of Strategic Finance at Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland. His research concentrates on business decision-making under uncertainty. Mikael is past President of the Finnish Operations Research Society (FORS) and an ordinary member of the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters, one of the Finnish Academies of Science.
