Innovation on Demand: New Product Development Using TRIZ by Victor Fey
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
This book provides a cogent, cohesive framework for proactively going after innovation in a logical, methodical manner. The TRIZ approach grew out of mechanical engineering, and that is the main thrust here. I feel as a software engineer I benefited from reading and I think anyone that has complex, heuristic engineering tasks can. If in doubt, start with Appendix 1 which gives creator Genrikh Altshuller's motiviations and follow that with Appendix 4 "Using TRIZ in management practice."
(Interestring, Altshuller sought to build better industry out of the ashes of WWII and Stalin locked him up, the Japanese at the same time picked up Deming's ideas discarded by the U.S. and triumphed on the global stage with improved quality.)
I didn't invest the time to learn all the diagramming techniques and lingo, but found the many real-world examples instructive like engineers' koans and even entertaining.
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