IBTA TRIZ Knowledge Requirements for Certification (Levels 1-3)

LEVEL 1. SUBJECT: PROBLEM SOLVING

  • Level 1 Roadmap.
  • Business innovation definition. Categories of business innovations.
  • General Structure. Inventive (Innovative) problem. Typical innovative problems.
  • 5 Levels of solutions.
  • Conflicts of demands and contradictions. Types of contradictions.
  • System Thinking and System Operator. 
  • Ideal Final Result. Ideal Solutions. TRIZ criteria of right solution.
  • Resources. Categories of Business Resources.
  • 7 Conflifcting Requirements Resolution Strategies.
  • TRIZ Stage Gate Process of solving innovative problems.
  • TRIZ Tools for each process stage.
  • Problem Perception Mapping (PPM)
  • Innovation Situation Questionnaire (ISQ).
  • Root Conflict Analysis (RCA+).
  • Selection of contradictions from RCA+ and defining problem solving strategy.
  • Contradiction Matrix for Business and Management (2016).
  • 40 Inventive Principles for Business and Management.
  • Ideas Generation process. Combining ideas generated.
  • Ideas Evaluation. Multi-Criteria Matrix of Decisions. Ideas Landscaping.
  • Secondary problems overview.

LEVEL 2. SUBJECT: EXPLORING INNOVATIVE POTENTIAL OF BUSINESS SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES

  • Level 2 Roadmap.
  • Business system model. The Law of business system completeness.
  • Business Modeling and selecting weak business model zone.
  • Defining system boundaries.
  • Extended Function Analysis of Business Systems.
  • Problems Discovery from Function Model. Problems Ranking.
  • Functional Idealization. The Trend of Systems Idealization.
  • Rules of Trimming.
  • Object-Field Analysis.
  • Object-Field Modeling of function-related problems.
  • Standard Inventive Solutions for Business Problems (xTRIZ version).
  • Categories of Standard Inventive Solutions
  • Solving problems with Standard Inventive Solutions.
  • Competing Alternative systems. Alternative Contradictions.
  • Merging Alternative Systems by Feature transfer.
  • Function Oriented Search for business solutions.
  • Main Parameters of Value (MPV)
  • S-Curve of Systems Evolution. Stages of S-Curve of Value Evolution.

LEVEL 3. SUBJECT: FUTURE ROADMAPPING

  • Level 3 Roadmap.
  • TRIZ Tools of strategic development and Roadmapping.
  • Multi-Screen Analysis (MSA) to explore existing challenges.
  • Value Conflict Mapping (VCM) to extract contradictions blocking further system evolution.
  • VCM results ranking and development strategy definition.
  • Laws of Business Systems Evolution.
  • Line of Functionaliy Evolution.
  • Trends, Lines and Patterns of Business Systems Evolution.
  • Innovation of services.
  • Strategies and process of Future Roadmapping.Analysis of Evolutionary Potential.
  • Future Roadmappig with patterns and lines of business systems evolution.
  • Patterns of business models and conflicts resolution.
  • Subversion Analysis.
  • Anticipatory Failures Analysis.
  • Algorithm of Inventive Problem Solving (ARIZ): overview.
  • Creative Imagination Development tools.
  • Overview of remaining TRIZ concepts and tools.
  • Roadmap of complete TRIZ for Business and Management.

 

IBTA Certification Knowledge Skills: Levels 1-5

LEVEL 1

  • Knowledge of general concepts of business innovation.
  • Knowledge of basic TRIZ fundamentals, ideality, system operator, contradiction, conflict of demands.
  • Understanding the key TRIZ paradigm of innovating through problem solving.
  • Skills with analyzing inventive problems by decomposing a general innovative problem to manageable subproblems.
  • Skills to formulate inventive problems in terms of contradictions.
  • Skills to apply TRIZ tools to eliminate contradictions and target ideality.
  • Ability to apply complete problem solving process with TRIZ tools.

LEVEL 2

  • Knowledge and skills of level 1.
  • Knowledge of methods of modeling systems in TRIZ, including function and function-ideal modeling.
  • Skills with analyzing business systems to identify function-related problems.
  • Ability to rank problems identified.
  • Anility to solve identified problems with Standard Inventive Solutions for business and management.
  • Knowledge of techniques of trimming.
  • Skills with drastic cost cutting of business systems and products without reducing values of critical parameters.
  • Skills with evaluating and Roadmapping ideas generated.

LEVEL 3

  • Knowledge and skills of levels 1 - 2.
  • Understating of business systems evolution strategies.
  • Skills with tools to analyze business systems and business products to extract their evolutionary potential.
  • Knowledge of laws of business systems evolution.
  • Knowledge and ability to apply trends, lines and patterns of business systems evolution.
  • Skills with performing Roadmapping of ideas for future business systems.
  • Ability to perform investigation of potential failures in innovative business systems that have not been implemented yet.
  • Knowledge and skills with techniques and methods of creative imagination development.

LEVEL 4

  • Knowledge and skills of levels 1 - 3.
  • Ability to successfully apply the TRIZ tools within three certification levels and achieve specific measurable results.
  • Experience with successful TRIZ applications in real projects.
  • Full or partial use of TRIZ in professional activities.

LEVEL 5 (BUSINESS TRIZ MASTER)

  • Knowledge and skills of levels 1 - 4.
  • Knowledge of theoretical TRIZ foundations.
  • Knowledge and skills with TRIZ tools at three levels of certification plus additional TRIZ tools.
  • Ability to independently apply TRIZ tools in actual projects and achieve successful measurable results.
  • Skills to perform research on TRIZ development.
  • Experience with TRIZ research. Publications related to TRIZ research and development.
  • Training skills with TRIZ and experience with conducting TRIZ training.
  • Full or partial use of TRIZ in professional activities.

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