Reviews for The Fast Path to Corporate Growth: Leveraging Knowledge and Technologies to New Market Applications

The average rating for The Fast Path to Corporate Growth: Leveraging Knowledge and Technologies to New Market Applications based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-12-11 00:00:00 Dave Morris Genrich Altshuller created a theory (TRIZ) and algorithm (ARIZ) for Inventive Problem Solving in the late 1940s. His theory is built on a very systematic analysis of 100,000 patents, from which he generalized patterns which became the methods to create inventions. He wrote this book about it in the 1980s and it was translated to in English in 1994. The book describes many engineering problems, where scientists get stuck, until "Suddenly the Inventor Appeared" and then either asks the reader to come up with a solution or describes one of his many methods to solve the problem. The book reads like a popular science textbook of the 70s or 80s, full of optimism of all the great products that would yet be invented by great engineers around the world. A future only bound by the imagination of inventors and engineers. And a future of steel and physical products, it's still long before the world from digital innovations. The interesting perspective is that Altshuller is extremely systematic. He doesn't believe at all in brainstorming sessions or trial and error. Both approaches will take long and don't guarantee a suitable outcome. Instead he offers his systemic approach. Fun reading. Nice drawing. References to some great Soviet inventors and inventions.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-11-04 00:00:00 Gary Otter This book did not meet my expectations. Maybe my expectations were too high.