Systems, Resources, and Systemic Development in TRIZ

Abstract

In TRIZ theory, resources play an important role when it comes to operate a systemic solution. It is only in this phase that the resource identified in the detailed solution plan as “any type of tangible or intangible matter that can be used to solve an inventive problem” must prove itself in practice. Conceptual distinctions such as “role definition” and “role occupation”, which are central for the management of human resources, play only a subordinate role in the TRIZ resource conception. In this paper, the close connection of the terms resource and component with systemic operating conditions is analysed in more detail and it is shown which influence, for example, the management and reproduction of scarce resources has on systemic development processes in a supersystem. The resulting questions are compared with corresponding theoretical approaches from component software in order to work out the significance of higher-level abstraction concepts such as component models, component architectures or middleware.

It is proposed to bundle these overarching questions of the interplay of independent third parties providing resources in the huge real “world of technical systems” and thus constituting resource management structures in an new area Resource Management Analysis in the TRIZ theory corpus.