Attitude adjustment, jargon, and acronyms -- Optimization: The enemy of innovation -- Parallel universes -- The ideal result -- Idenitfy and use resources -- Whose ideal result and whose resources? -- Adding useful complexity: An approach to the ideal result -- Trimming: Another approach to the ideal result -- Inventive principles - What do millions of patents teach us? -- TRIZ contradiction table -- TRIZ separation principles -- Lines of product and lines of system evolution -- Combining upward integration with lines of evolution -- Special TRIZ tools -- TRIZ problem modeling -- Using TRIZ with other tools.

The TRIZ Inventive Problem Solving Process is a left-brained, highly creative method of problem solving which uses a basic algorithm developed through the study of millions of patents. Unlike psychological tools, which rely on sorting through hundreds of ideas in order to find the valuable few, TRIZ rigorously defines the problem and helps identify existing inventive principles that have helped solve other problems of the same class. It is also an invaluable aid for strategic business planning. The Ideal Result introduces the TRIZ Inventive Problem Solving Process in a way that allows readers to make immediate use of its most basic concepts. This book reviews the basic TRIZ algorithm tools, provides templates for analyzing your own difficult problems, and helps establish mental frameworks for finding your own solutions.