Certified TRIZ Innovator equips professionals to solve complex technical and business problems with speed, rigor, and repeatability. The program blends classical TRIZ with modern systems thinking, enabling participants to frame contradictions, model functions, reveal root causes, and invent high-value solutions under real constraints. Guidance emphasizes practicality for cross-functional teams and global contexts, from manufacturing to software and services.

Cybersecurity receives focused attention, showing how TRIZ accelerates threat modeling, hardens architectures, and resolves security-performance tradeoffs. Participants learn to structure inventive problem solving for cybersecurity risks, reduce attack surface creatively, and design security controls that do not degrade user experience. Graduates leave ready to facilitate innovation sprints, govern pipelines, and scale knowledge across organizations worldwide.

Learning Objectives

• Apply TRIZ to define and resolve contradictions across domains
• Build clear functional models and causal chains for tough problems
• Use inventive principles and standards to generate patent-class concepts
• Forecast system evolution to guide roadmap and portfolio bets
• Facilitate rapid ideation, selection, and de-risking with evidence
• Strengthen cybersecurity outcomes with inventive problem solving in security design and operations
• Institutionalize governance, metrics, and knowledge capture for repeatability

Audience

• Product Managers and Owners
• R&D and Innovation Leaders
• Systems and Software Engineers
• Quality and Process Improvement Specialists
• Enterprise Architects and Solution Designers
• Cybersecurity Professionals
• Data and AI Practitioners

Program Modules

Module 1: TRIZ Foundations and Problem Framing

• Innovation system overview
• Problem scoping canvas
• Stakeholder needs mapping
• Value and harm analysis
• Contradiction identification basics
• Metrics and success criteria

Module 2: Contradictions and Ideal Final Result

• IFR clarity techniques
• Technical vs physical contradictions
• Separation principles toolkit
• Constraint reframing methods
• Tradeoff curve reasoning
• Acceptance and risk gates

Module 3: 40 Principles and Inventive Standards

• Patterned principle selection
• Principle chaining strategies
• Inventive standards overview
• Effects and resources catalog
• Concept morphology grids
• Screening and quick testing

Module 4: Functional Modeling and Cause Analysis

• Function-model syntax rules
• Cause–effect chain building
• Failure and harm pathways
• Minimal cut interventions
• Control loop redesign
• Verification of causal claims

Module 5: Trends of Evolution and Forecasting

• S-curve positioning
• Ideality growth patterns
• Segmentation and dynamization
• Field and substance shifts
• Interface and hierarchy trends
• Roadmap translation actions

Module 6: Deployment Facilitation and Innovation Governance

• Sprint and workshop design
• Portfolio triage funnels
• IP and disclosure practices
• Governance roles and rituals
• Metrics dashboards and audits
• Change management playbook

Exam Domains

• TRIZ Theory and Constructs
• Contradiction Analysis Proficiency
• Inventive Principle Application
• Functional and Causal Modeling
• Evolutionary Forecasting Methods
• Innovation Governance and Ethics

Course Delivery
The course is delivered through a combination of lectures, interactive discussions, hands-on workshops, and project-based learning, facilitated by experts in the field of Certified TRIZ Innovator. Participants will have access to online resources, including readings, case studies, and tools for practical exercises.

Assessment and Certification
Participants will be assessed through quizzes, assignments, and a capstone project. Upon successful completion of the course, participants will receive a certificate in Certified TRIZ Innovator.

Question Types

• Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)
• Scenario-based Questions

Passing Criteria
To pass the Certified TRIZ Innovator Certification Training exam, candidates must achieve a score of 70% or higher.

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