TOC for Education is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the dissemination of the TOC Thinking Processes and Tools to children and to the education community.

GOAL/QPC offers people practical tools for continuous improvement, quality, and organizational transformation. Best known for our Memory Jogger series, its one of the world’s best selling organizational improvement tools. GOAL/QPC also provides on-site training courses, and a membership program featuring innovative ideas for building real change and lasting improvement.

Iowa Quality Center (IQC) has over 180 member organizations with more than 48,000 individual members. Members represent all sectors of the community including government, manufacturing, business, education, labor, retail, service, and health care. Though IQC staff is based in Marion, its networking groups, consultation and membership activities take place throughout the State of Iowa.

The Iowa Quality Center offers customizable consulting products and services aimed to increase the performance of your organization and employees.

WHY! Company is dedicated to providing unquestionable value to our clients through training, consulting, and transformational change initiatives. WHY! offers Training & Professional Development services in all the leading performance improvement methodologies as well as on-site Business Services that involve direct implementations of customized solutions within organizations including REDLINE Enterprise Performance, a high octane strategy to maximize your throughput potential and drive profitable growth.

Abandon Symmetry--Plus additional inventive information about Inventamins and Patents.

Inventamins--Vitamins for the Inventive Mind are two to three page notes about an inventive recommendation discovered and developed by the creators of modern TRIZ. Inventamins include characteristics, examples, and additional information.

Eliminate a Stressful Operation--Plus additional information about TRIZ

Transform an Object's Shape--Plus a Lesson Plan Outline for using Inventamins in the classroom

The primary GOALS of the Altshuller Institute for TRIZ Studies: 1. Further the worldwide appreciation of TRIZ 2. Promote annual TRIZ Conferences 3. Distribute TRIZ materials and publications 4. Facilitate TRIZ research and development 5. Translate TRIZ materials 6. Develop TRIZ material for children

Ideation International is the world leader in the development of modern TRIZ or Ideation/TRIZ methodology. Ideation International's business is to help enterprises with the essential function of innovation. Their products and services are based on the Ideation/TRIZ Methodology (I-TRIZ). I-TRIZ is the result of an analysis of over 3 million worldwide patents and the history of technological and social evolution, from which approximately 1000 patterns of invention and more than 500 patterns/lines of technological, market and organizational evolution have been extracted. This extensive knowledge base enables users to develop a practically exhaustive set of possible solution ideas to difficult problems in an expeditious manner. Visit their web site to find a multitude of TRIZ Resources.

Pretium Consulting Services helps you resolve a wide variety of challenging business and technological problems and assists in creating a culture and language of innovation within your organization. Results are delivered through the application of a Structured Innovation Methodology. Pretium offers the following products and services: • Consulting Services to help clients implement the Structured Innovation Methodology (SIM). • Guided Innovation Toolkit™ software to support the Structured Innovation Methodology. • Training and Certification in use of the TRIZ software and Structured Innovation Methodology. • Collaboration/partnership with inventors and start-up companies to enhance intellectual property

The TRIZ Journal, published on line since November 1996, provides several monthly articles and case studies about teh use of TRIZ for invention and innovation in diverse fields of business and industry.