Beyond Systematic Innovation (Integration of Emergence and Recursion Concepts into TRIZ and Other Tools)

Present day systematic innovation capabilities exist as the result of an amalgamation taking place between a host of different creativity tools, techniques and philosophies. Collectively, these tools have been brought together from all corners of the creativity spectrum – from the highly structured (TRIZ, Six Sigma, QFD, Theory of Constraints, Complexity Theory, Viable System Model) to the highly unstructured, from those rooted in the applied sciences to those built on purely psychological foundations (DeBono, Mind-Mapping, NLP). The paper describes an ongoing programme of research to distill best practice from these methods and create a unified creativity and innovation system. The basis of the paper is a discussion built around the high-level philosophical bases of the various techniques and strategies being integrated