TRIZ

TRIZ

This tool uses a contradictory approach to identify opportunities to intervene in a complex problem. In small group discussion participants explore how to reliably fail at an intervention, in order to surface opportunities to strengthen the approach before implementation. The tool offers a playful and fun exercise that requires participants to consider and address assumptions they may have made about the intervention and the enabling factors required to support it.

*Note: This tool is derived from a much larger and established approach called TRIZ, a german phrase which translates to theory of the resolution of invention-related tasks. TRIZ is an international system of creativity developed in the U.S.S.R. between 1946 and 1985, by engineer and scientist Genrich S. Altshuller and his colleagues.

Our particular tool is adapted from the Liberating Structures TRIZ activity

Accessibility

This activity requires participants to engage is social learning

Output: The output from the process produces a butchers paper map which can then be captured digitally through tools such as MURAL, IDEAFLIP, or MIRO.

This is a Tool: a very small, contained, activity, which only has 1-2 steps. You'll apply this exactly the same way each time you use it.

Investment: low cost, low resources, low skill, low time

Outcomes

A list of ideas and activities that can be used to refine and strengthen an intervention before implementation that address assumptions.

When and Why Do I Use This

Acting strategically - this is a nice quick and fun activity to check assumptions before implementing an action in the system

Relationships - by exploring our assumptions we can further surface relationships between parts in the system and their impact