Innovation Lab: New TRIZ Tools for Fast Idea Triggering

During 2017, University of Bergamo and Warrant Innovation Labhave been starting a partnership to diffuse TRIZ in Italian SMEs. They aim tomake SMEs perceive TRIZ as a time-saving methodology, the main needingexpressed about innovation. The offering is a one-day problem-solving activitythat aims at generating conceptual solutions, potentially patentable. First caseshighlighted the reformulation was the trickiest phase: the extraction of the high-level technological alternatives cannot be supported by classical TRIZ tools(object-product transformation, ENV model, IFR, resources, evolutive laws,multiscreen, MTS) for both limited time and lacks in TRIZ skills of the cus-tomer. The staff overcomes such a double issue pre-processing the initialproblem’s information to extract insights from knowledge DBs. The results willbe shown as visual-psychological triggers to stimulate the creativity of non-TRIZ-skilled users. The paper will disclose how visual triggers can work andhow a triz expert facilitator can create them.