TRIZ Hoover Dam Case Study: Structured Innovation Challenge

Review the defined challenge in TRUE NORTH format covering mission, importance, objectives, restrictions, tactical constraints, and starting points.

Summarize constraints and restrictions ensuring generated ideas comply fully.

Identify potential users affected and list two key objectives per user in a chart: User | Objective/Challenges | Contradiction(s) | Ideal State.

Break down the key challenges into manageable sub-challenges.

Conduct a TRIZ Contradiction Analysis focusing on the top 10 significant contradictions, generating one unique idea per contradiction.

Perform a TRIZ Functional Analysis on the challenge and sub-problems, generating 10 unique specific ideas.

Apply TRIZ System Operator Analysis to identify system operators and generate 10 unique ideas addressing the challenge and sub-problems.

Use TRIZ-inspired scenario planning on generated ideas to identify bottlenecks and propose solutions.

Benchmark generated ideas against known solutions and generate 10 new unique ideas.

Generate 80 unique ideas based on the 40 TRIZ inventive principles (two ideas per principle).

Generate another 80 unique ideas applying TRIZ inventive principles combined with other TRIZ methods like Su-Field Analysis and Standard Solutions.

Identify the 10 strongest ideas so far and suggest improvements using other TRIZ inventive principles, presenting this in a chart with original and improved ideas.

Create 2 lists of 3 related stimuli based on previous work; generate an idea for each combination with top ideas, resulting in 90 new ideas.

Compile all generated ideas into a chart with columns for name, description, source, value, meaningfulness rating, uniqueness rating, and a composite score.

Review and select the top 10 ideas likely to meet objectives and constraints, presenting them in a final selection chart.