Technical Innovation Center

TRIZ Team Development

Objective

This program develops Apprentices, Practitioners, and Specialists to solve a wide range of inventive problems during the intstruction time period. The classroom and project oriented training will take about 6 months for Modules 1-5.

Expert level may take another 6 months or longer. It is the highest level of TRIZ expertise and is based on demonstrated ability and current certification requirements, which are subject to change.

Location / Registration

Classes are held at your designated location. Classes begin at 8:30 AM.
Contact TIC for additional information and to arrange for onsite training

Certificates

All graduates will receive comparable certification from the Altshuller Institute.

Course Level	Certification Equivalent	Contents	Skills After Education	Training Time	Training Modules	Project Time
Introductory [Elementary] 20 - 30 students per class 50 - 75 students trained	Apprentice	TRIZ Basic Theory and Tools: Inventive Principles and Altshuller's Matrix (Classical Matrix) SubField Analysis and Modeling Introductory Inventive Standards Course Technical Contradictions and samples for their solving Physical Contradictions and Separation Principles Ideal Final Result. Samples ARIZ (just concept)	Ability to solve "elementary inventive" problems with application TRIZ tools	25 - 40 hrs	1	20 - 25 hrs
General [Undergraduate] 10 - 15 students	Practitioner	ARIZ Course Inventive Standards Course Application of Effects Evolution Product Development TRIZ based on software	Ability to solve midlevel inventive problems with application TRIZ and ARIZ	60 - 80 hrs	2 & 3	40 - 50 hrs
Applied [Graduate] 5 - 7 students	Specialist	Applied ARIZ with Value Engineering Analysis, Six Sigma and other innovation methodologies Applied Inventive Software and Databases Hand-on work with real-life problems and their solving (at least two projects)	Ability to solve high-level inventive problems with application TRIZ and ARIZ	60 - 80 hrs	4 & 5	40 - 50 hrs
Advanced [Postgraduate] (for Advanced Trainers) 1 - 3 students	Expert	Development TRIZ Innovation Management Network at the company Practical TRIZ using in joint projects of your company TRIZ specialization for solving technical problems, innovation management, patent strategy development and competitive patent avoidance, new technical generation forecasting Newest logics/algorithms, tools, software, developments on the TRIZ base	Ability to use TRIZ not only for technical problem solving, but also for management problems. Teach other TRIZ users to apply and to develop the new TRIZ tools.	more than 6 months	6	As required