I propose to do a powerpoint presentation on ASIT or "Advanced Systematic Inventive Thinking." ASIT was developed by Dr. Roni Horowitz from techniques originally developed by Soviet inventor Genrich Altshuller.
Altshuller had worked in the Soviet patent office in the 1940s and had discovered certain generalizable patterns in the inventive process that could be systematically applied to create new inventions. Altshuller called his technique TRIZ, a Russian acronym for "the theory of inventive problem solving." Subsequent work by Horowitz and others has tried to build upon and simplify the techniques of TRIZ. TRIZ, ASIT and other similar techniques have been applied at Ford, Daimler-Chrysler, Johnson & Johnson, Boeing, NASA, Hewlett Packard, Motorola, General Electric, Xerox, IBM, Samsung and Kodak in attempting to develop new products.
Interestingly, Altshuller was imprisoned in the Soviet Gulag for having the audacity to suggest to Joseph Stalin that he could improve on the Russian inventive process. Much of the formulation of his TRIZ methodology took place while he was in prison. For many years TRIZ was more popular in Europe than in the United States.
TRIZ is not easy to understand. ASIT provides some of the most important principles of TRIZ and is much easier for the beginner.
I was hoping we'd learn more about this. So, ASIT = TRIZ = another system to create stuff? Oh, good.
ReplyDeleteBTW, this has nothing to do with your topic. I was watching "Breaking Bad", which is my all-time favorite show. I have all four seasons. LOL
I got the idea for my 3-word project. It just came like a flash. Who knew.