If you are a manager or a consultant and have heard of TRIZ, you probably have a question: "How can I prove that TRIZ really works and will improve our business?"

If you have already worked your way through the first 11 chapters and tried the exercises, you are already proficient at using TRIZ by yourself. This generates a new problem: how to help other people in the organization adopt TRIZ.

Those of you who work in organizations, whether they be private companies, government agencies or mom-and-pop operations, should take TRIZ back to your co-workers to get the benefit of solving your own problems in your own environment, where you can develop these new ideas. Private companies will be looking for a competitive advantage to patent, to set new standards, or to get proprietary advantage from being first to market with new concepts and public organizations will be seeking maximum benefit for minimum cost. Both kinds of organizations need the breakthrough creativity of TRIZ.

This chapter and those that follow will help you in all these cases. The whole book can be divided roughly into three parts:

1. How to solve problems by analyzing contradictions (Chapters 1-7)

2. The improvement of systems using the patterns of evolution and 40 principles (Chapters 9-10)

3. The business applications of TRIZ (Chapters 12-14), where the systematic implementation process for TRIZ is presented to make the benefits of TRIZ quickly available to your organization.

In the last section, we discuss how to integrate TRIZ...