- lecture: th/do 11:15-12:45
- Seminar: tu/di 9:15-10:45
The seminar is part of the advanced master module "Modelling of Sustainable Systems and Semantic Web", which also includes a lecture and an online lab with the TRIZ trainer of Nikolay Shpakovsky.
In this semester's seminar, we want to deal with forms of cooperative action as well as the institutionalisation of conceptual, notational and experiential forms in such structures in particular. In the context of our understanding of technology, which includes the three components
- socially available processual knowledge,
- institutionalised procedures
- and private processual skills
It concentrates on a better understanding of the form-building processes of institutionalised procedures. The contradiction-oriented analytical methods of TRIZ can be applied to these questions, whereby the concepts that have been developed in the "world of technical systems" have already been extended to management processes and management structures within the field of "Business TRIZ". However, modern management approaches yet are insufficiently taken up here. In the seminar, such connections will be examined more closely, in particular
- Approaches of the Methodological School of Management in the traditions of the MMC around G.P. Shchedrovitsky
- The Co-operative Action approach
- Other management approaches that focus on social interactions.
More detailed information on the course concept.
Thinking in terms of contradictions and modelling (initially) contradictory situations is a fundamental engineering and management competence, its teaching in the context of a "General Theory of Strong Thinking" (OTSM-TRIZ) and its further development as the "Innovative Design Method" (IDM) is at the centre of our teaching programme.
The course has forced the biggest change in years in my way of approaching problems and analyzing them. The majority of the innovative solutions proposed by the method are better adapted to a research context where no solution is known, then to an industrial context where the desire is to reduce the cost of well-known solutions. Nevertheless, the problem analysis tools are extremely powerful in all situations. Over time I have noticed that the effects of the change in mentality are growing rather than fading away.
Source: http://www.trizminsk.org/d/Khomenko_Heritage(EN).pdf (Slide 21)
Ibid, slide 36
In order to be universal, the rules of problem solving methods should be as general as possible. But the more general the rules of problem solving are, the more general and the less practical the solution will be. And vice versa: when the rules (and methods) are specific and precise, they are helpful for solving a specific problem which is of practical use. However, the more specific they are the less universal they are as well.
Ibid, slide 40
Any problem can be stated as a contradiction between our subjective desires for something appearing in a specific context on the one hand, and objective laws that cause this specific situation, one the other hand.
Ibid, slide 42
Any element should be seen as a process and vice versa. This process, which is linked with a human being as soon as we are in a problem solving context, evolves in accordance with objective laws and takes into account specific objective and subjective factors.
We follow an Open Culture approach not only theoretically but also practically and make course materials publicly available. This also applies to the course materials you have to produce (presentations, seminar papers) as well as to (annotated) chat sessions of the seminar discussions, in which your names are also mentioned. We assume your consent to this procedure if you do not explicitly object. The discussions themselves are not recorded.