A founder of the Altshuller Institute for TRIZ Studies, 1998

About the center

Technical Innovation Center provides training, consulting, and publications in TRIZ. The old About page dated that work to the years after TRIZ came to America in the early 1990s.

Services

Training on the old site included virtual classes leading to Associate certification through the Altshuller Institute, further levels of proficiency, and onsite workshops of about five days developed with the customer. Consulting pairs TIC with a client’s own experts. Publishing produced English TRIZ books used in the courses and sold to the public, with volume discounts for training.

As published on the old About page

Vision

Technical Innovation Center believes that the survival of nations and companies relies on having the most productive and innovative workforce in the world. The key to freedom and independence is being the best and working smart to achieve desired goals.

Mission

Technical Innovation Center has provided TRIZ training, consulting, and publishing services since TRIZ first came to America in the early 1990s. Our years of experience have allowed us to refine the art of disseminating the use of TRIZ to companies around the world. We are constantly working to deliver the best and most comprehensive services to make our customers and partners the most innovative and productive in their industry.

Education note from the 2018 homepage

That page said the traditional curriculum teaches language and mathematics, and that problem solving is a third component schools do not teach as a subject of its own. It called TRIZ the missing strand for a STEM program. The diagram below is the knowledge-pyramid graphic from the same era of the site.

Knowledge pyramid from the old site. The base is labeled TRIZ. Above it are mathematics and language, then rows of professions, under the question who needs problem solving skills.
Knowledge pyramid graphic from the old triz.org site, at the size it was published.

Staff

Richard Langevin
Richard LangevinCEO, Technical Innovation Center. Portrait from the old site. The name line printed on the picture has been cropped off so the name sits in the caption.
Gunter Ladewig
Gunter LadewigNamed as an associate on the old About page. This portrait was published on the old site as Gunter.jpg.

Richard Langevin is the CEO and principal owner of Technical Innovation Center, Inc., incorporated in 1995. His responsibilities have included administration, finance, marketing, training, and product development. He is a founder of the Altshuller Institute for TRIZ Studies, started in 1998. The Institute is a 501(c)(3) organized to spread the theory of inventive problem solving. In 2000 he became executive director and treasurer of the Institute. He attended Iowa State University on a full NROTC scholarship and graduated with a BS in physics and education. His background includes the Navy, science, and the private sector.

The old page named Valery Kraev as an associate. A biography for him was not in the text kept here.

The old biography page for Gunter Ladewig described PRIMA Performance Ltd. in Ontario, work from small firms through Fortune 500 companies, and Canadian and IBM awards in 1990, 1992, and 1993.

TODO. Confirm whether the public site should be named for the Center, the Institute, or both. Confirm that the Gunter.jpg portrait is the biography’s Gunter Ladewig, and whether the PRIMA paragraph should stay in this shorter form.