TRIZ events increase innovative strength of lean product development processes

Abstract

New product development has to cope with different target dimensions. The need for a short time to market requires a very efficient process, and the need for innovation demands new and promising quality of the intellectual work that is done by all the people involved in the process. This work captures a very efficient process pattern out of the field of lean product development and enhances it by adding TRIZ processes for increased innovative power symbiotically (TRIZ or theory of inventive problem-solving). By this means, TRIZ concepts and approaches are utilized as lean events in an event-driven lean product development process.