1. TRIZ Worksheet 1 Objective: Ways to progress objective conventionally
What gets better?
What gets worse?
Equivalent TRIZ Contradictions
Title/Explanation No.
Proposed Inventive Principles
No. Title/Explanation
What are the conventional, or the most obvious, ways of trying to progress this objective? Or what have you seen tried elsewhere? List up to four ways fairly quickly!
For each item in the first column, what is their likely impact in terms of what gets better? What is their desired effect on the problem? In what way does it help your objective?
For each item in the first column, what is their downside in terms of what gets worse? What do they consume, or limit, or what unfortunate side effects do they generate?
Taking one of the four rows at a time, use the ‘better’ and ‘worse’ descriptions to identify the most analogous contradictions in the list of 39 TRIZ contradictions. N.B. This requires a bit of creative interpretation, & there may be more than one good analogy for each, but choose no more than two of each. List these above, and put a ‘+’ beside those that get better, and a ‘-’ beside those that get worse.
For each of the four (main) rows on the left, select one of the ‘+’ contradictions and one of the ‘-’, and look these up in the ‘Table of Constraints’ to identify the numbers of the most productive creative principles for this type of conflict. List these above, in any order. Then continue for other contradictions and other rows (no need to duplicate). Then look up the names of the principles.
Please Note: TRIZ is not an exact science, nor a step-by-step methodology to lead you to one right answer. It is rather a series of steps which take you on a journey, past some interesting and relevant scenery, where you choose the most promising routes to take, based on your own judgment. The skills of TRIZ are about getting better at enjoying the journey and testing different routes until you gain experience in selecting those that will prove most productive for you. But they require practice!
TRIZ Worksheet 1

2. TRIZ Worksheet 2 Objective: Most promising principles: Past / Prior
Copy across what appear to you to be the most promising principles from Worksheet 1 to the box above right. Use these principles, and the guidance on each from your TRIZ workbook, to brainstorm ideas which might use each principle to contribute to the objective. Use the table below to stretch your thinking on each principle into the past and the future, and to consider component elements and the super-system of which it is part. Take one principle at a time, and write down your ideas in each box, using the rules of brainstorming. Then select your preferred ideas to work on further.
Past / Prior
Present / Current
Future / Emergent
Examples: Bletchley Park / Open plain
Examples: Enterprise Information System / Deciduous Forest
Examples: Collective Conscious / Log Cabin
Examples: Calculating Engine / Conker (Horse Chestnut)
Examples: Personal Tablet PC / Tree
Examples: Neural Implant / Wooden plank
Examples: Valve / DNA
Examples: Integrated Circuit / Stem system
Examples: Synaptic Interface / Knotting and grain patterns
Super-system
System
Sub-system
TRIZ Worksheet 2

3. TRIZ Worksheet 3 Objective: Most promising principles:
Copy across what appear to you to be the most promising principles from Worksheet 1 to the box at the top of this section. Then follow the instructions for the box on the right – picking the exact words the point of your pencil lands on and writing them in the spaces provided (N.B. This is key to ensuring your mind is taken to new places and using new thought patterns). Then use the spaces above, at the intersections between your preferred principles and the BruteThink words, to brainstorm “In how many different (obscure, bizarre, perverse, …) ways you can think of how a combination of the BruteThink word and the principle can be used to contribute to your objective”. Feel free to use all the different aspects of the BruteThink word and your principle that occur to you. When you have finished, select your preferred ideas to work on further. Please do not feel constrained to the limitations of this sheet of paper – if other, better, ideas occur to you, migrate to post-it notes or to a separate sheet of flipchart paper.
Objective:
Most promising principles:
BruteThink words:
Select your BruteThink words by pointing a pencil, with your eyes closed, at the words on TT and write them in the spaces above.
TRIZ Worksheet 3

4. Forward Plan Strategy: Periods From: To: Milestones Who?
Consider the key milestones that you will need to achieve in delivering your Strategy (Examples: Explore full potential to impact objectives; Quantify intended impact; Develop options; Evaluate options; Prepare detail plan and cost-benefit proposal; etc.) and list these on the right. Map out a timescale in six periods at the top, and position post-its of what needs to be done by when in order to deliver each milestone – map these against the milestone and under the proposed time period. Adjust them as you need to, to make the plan work. Finally, define responsibilities for each milestone in the column on the right.
Forward Plan

5. Proposed Forward Plan Alliance Group:
Key actions to influence &/or ensure delivery of our contributions
Periods From:
To:
Milestones
Who?
Generate post-its here for how (in general) you plan to deliver or influence the things in your column of the contribution grid. Then map these out as a milestone plan to the right. For post-its in your column of the grid which you plan does not address, please return to the main grid and turn those post-its through 90 degrees.
Proposed Forward Plan

6. TRIZ Worksheet 1 Objective: Ways to progress objective conventionally
What gets better?
What gets worse?
Equivalent TRIZ Contradictions
Title/Explanation No.
Proposed Inventive Principles
No. Title/Explanation
What are the conventional, or the most obvious, ways of trying to progress this objective? Or what have you seen tried elsewhere? List up to four ways fairly quickly!
For each item in the first column, what is their likely impact in terms of what gets better? What is their desired effect on the problem? In what way does it help your objective?
For each item in the first column, what is their downside in terms of what gets worse? What do they consume, or limit, or what unfortunate side effects do they generate?
Taking one of the four rows at a time, use the ‘better’ and ‘worse’ descriptions to identify the most analogous contradictions in the list of 39 TRIZ contradictions. N.B. This requires a bit of creative interpretation, & there may be more than one good analogy for each, but choose no more than two of each. List these above, and put a ‘+’ beside those that get better, and a ‘-’ beside those that get worse.
For each of the four (main) rows on the left, select one of the ‘+’ contradictions and one of the ‘-’, and look these up in the ‘Table of Constraints’ to identify the numbers of the most productive creative principles for this type of conflict. List these above, in any order. Then continue for other contradictions and other rows (no need to duplicate). Then look up the names of the principles.
Please Note: TRIZ is not an exact science, nor a step-by-step methodology to lead you to one right answer. It is rather a series of steps which take you on a journey, past some interesting and relevant scenery, where you choose the most promising routes to take, based on your own judgment. The skills of TRIZ are about getting better at enjoying the journey and testing different routes until you gain experience in selecting those that will prove most productive for you. But they require practice!
TRIZ Worksheet 1

7. TRIZ Worksheet 2 Objective: Most promising principles: Past / Prior
Copy across what appear to you to be the most promising principles from Worksheet 1 to the box above right. Use these principles, and the guidance on each from your TRIZ workbook, to brainstorm ideas which might use each principle to contribute to the objective. Use the table below to stretch your thinking on each principle into the past and the future, and to consider component elements and the super-system of which it is part. Take one principle at a time, and write down your ideas in each box, using the rules of brainstorming. Then select your preferred ideas to work on further.
Past / Prior
Present / Current
Future / Emergent
Examples: Bletchley Park / Open plain
Examples: Enterprise Information System / Deciduous Forest
Examples: Collective Conscious / Log Cabin
Examples: Calculating Engine / Conker (Horse Chestnut)
Examples: Personal Tablet PC / Tree
Examples: Neural Implant / Wooden plank
Examples: Valve / DNA
Examples: Integrated Circuit / Stem system
Examples: Synaptic Interface / Knotting and grain patterns
Super-system
System
Sub-system
TRIZ Worksheet 2

8. TRIZ Worksheet 3 Objective: Most promising principles:
Copy across what appear to you to be the most promising principles from Worksheet 1 to the box at the top of this section. Then follow the instructions for the box on the right – picking the exact words the point of your pencil lands on and writing them in the spaces provided (N.B. This is key to ensuring your mind is taken to new places and using new thought patterns). Then use the spaces above, at the intersections between your preferred principles and the BruteThink words, to brainstorm “In how many different (obscure, bizarre, perverse, …) ways you can think of how a combination of the BruteThink word and the principle can be used to contribute to your objective”. Feel free to use all the different aspects of the BruteThink word and your principle that occur to you. When you have finished, select your preferred ideas to work on further. Please do not feel constrained to the limitations of this sheet of paper – if other, better, ideas occur to you, migrate to post-it notes or to a separate sheet of flipchart paper.
Objective:
Most promising principles:
BruteThink words:
Select your BruteThink words by pointing a pencil, with your eyes closed, at the words on TT and write them in the spaces above.
TRIZ Worksheet 3

9. Forward Plan Strategy: Periods From: To: Milestones Who?
Consider the key milestones that you will need to achieve in delivering your Strategy (Examples: Explore full potential to impact objectives; Quantify intended impact; Develop options; Evaluate options; Prepare detail plan and cost-benefit proposal; etc.) and list these on the right. Map out a timescale in six periods at the top, and position post-its of what needs to be done by when in order to deliver each milestone – map these against the milestone and under the proposed time period. Adjust them as you need to, to make the plan work. Finally, define responsibilities for each milestone in the column on the right.
Strategy:
Periods From:
To:
Milestones
Who?
Forward Plan

10. Proposed Forward Plan Alliance Group:
Key actions to influence &/or ensure delivery of our contributions
Periods From:
To:
Milestones
Who?
Generate post-its here for how (in general) you plan to deliver or influence the things in your column of the contribution grid. Then map these out as a milestone plan to the right. For post-its in your column of the grid which you plan does not address, please return to the main grid and turn those post-its through 90 degrees.
Proposed Forward Plan