This book gives a streamlined and updated toolkit, containing many easy-to-learn and easy-to-use tools for everyday problem solving and step-by-step improvements of work, in the spirit of kaizen. It gives basis for thorough study of advanced tools. It is the ABC or the "arithmetic" of problems solving.

Chapter 1 Why Do People Seek New Ways to Solve Problems?; Chapter 2 Constructing the New Model for Problem Solving: Moving from the Problem to the Ideal Final Result; Chapter 3 Clarify the Tradeoff behind a Problem; Chapter 4 Moving from Tradeoff to Inherent Contradiction; Chapter 5 Mapping Invisible Resources; Chapter 6 The Impossible Often Is Possible: How to Increase the Ideality of the System; Chapter 7 Understanding How Systems Work: Utilizing Functional Analysis to Expand Knowledge About Your Problem; Chapter 8 How to Separate the Best from the Rest: A Simple and Effective Tool for Evaluation of Solutions; Chapter 9 Enriching the Model for Problem Solving; Chapter 10 Patterns Are Powerful Tools for System Development; Chapter 11 Principles for Innovation: 40 Ways to Create Good Solutions; Chapter 12 Moving from Challenging Show Stoppers to Innovative Solutions; Chapter 13 TRIZ Knowledge Helps Drive Improvement; Chapter 14 Evaluation of the Model for Problem Solving; Chapter 15 How to Drive the Adoption of TRIZ in Your Organization; Chapter 16 Integrating TRIZ with Six Sigma and Other Quality Improvement Systems;Chapter 17 Book Summary: Creative Problem Solving and Innovative Thinking in a Nutshell; Chapter 18 Get Started; Glossary