Zinovy Royzen, Founder and President, TRIZ Consulting,
Inc., Seattle, Washington, the first U.S. company to apply TRIZ. He is Affiliate Associate Professor, University of
Washington, Seattle and Vice President of Altshuller Institute for TRIZ Studies.
Mr. Royzen is a Master of TRIZ certified by Genrich Altshuller, the creator of TRIZ.
Mr. Royzen has been applying TRIZ to new product development, quality improvement, cost reduction, and inventive problem solving since 1980. He has been teaching TRIZ since 1984. As the manager of training at The Scientific and Technological Center, Kishinev, former Soviet Union, he conducted many TRIZ workshops and taught TRIZ to nearly 1000 engineers and scientists. Mr. Royzen has applied TRIZ to numerous projects in diverse industries for some of the largest companies in the former Soviet Union.
Since 1992, he has led workshops and/or provided consultation at numerous organizations, including Boeing, Eastman Kodak, Ford Motor Company, Hewlett-Packard, Howmet Corporation, Illinois Tool Works, Kimberly-Clark, Lexmark International Inc., LG Electronics, Lucent Technologies Inc., NASA, Paccar, Philips Semiconductors Hamburg, Samsung, Thiokol Corporation, Western Digital Corporation, Weyerhaeuser Company, and Xerox. He has published articles on creative problem solving and holds 26 patents.
Since 2000, he has taught
more than 500 engineers at Boeing alone. Using TRIZ, course participants have saved for the company millions
of dollars. TRIZ solutions
developed in class applied to the 767 Tanker Transport Project were critical in
winning eight orders worth $1,500 million from the governments of Italy and
Japan.