LEVEL 1

• Knowledge of general concepts of business innovation.
• Knowledge of basic TRIZ fundamentals, ideality, system operator, contradiction, conflict of demands.
• Understanding the key TRIZ paradigm of innovating through problem solving.
• Skills with analyzing inventive problems by decomposing a general innovative problem to manageable subproblems.
• Skills to formulate inventive problems in terms of contradictions.
• Skills to apply TRIZ tools to eliminate contradictions and target ideality.
• Ability to apply complete problem solving process with TRIZ tools.

LEVEL 2

• Knowledge and skills of level 1.
• Knowledge of methods of modeling systems in TRIZ, including function and function-ideal modeling.
• Skills with analyzing business systems to identify function-related problems.
• Ability to rank problems identified.
• Anility to solve identified problems with Standard Inventive Solutions for business and management.
• Knowledge of techniques of trimming.
• Skills with drastic cost cutting of business systems and products without reducing values of critical parameters.
• Skills with evaluating and Roadmapping ideas generated.

LEVEL 3

• Knowledge and skills of levels 1 - 2.
• Understating of business systems evolution strategies.
• Skills with tools to analyze business systems and business products to extract their evolutionary potential.
• Knowledge of laws of business systems evolution.
• Knowledge and ability to apply trends, lines and patterns of business systems evolution.
• Skills with performing Roadmapping of ideas for future business systems.
• Ability to perform investigation of potential failures in innovative systems that have not been implemented yet.
• Knowledge and skills with techniques and methods of creative imagination development.

LEVEL 4

• Knowledge and skills of levels 1 - 3.
• Ability to successfully apply the TRIZ tools within three certification levels and achieve specific measurable results.
• Experience with successful TRIZ applications in real projects.
• Full or partial use of TRIZ in professional activities.

LEVEL 5 (BUSINESS TRIZ MASTER)

• Knowledge and skills of levels 1 - 4.
• Knowledge of theoretical TRIZ foundations.
• Knowledge and skills with TRIZ tools at three levels of certification plus additional TRIZ tools.
• Ability to independently apply TRIZ tools in actual projects and achieve successful measurable results.
• Skills to perform research on TRIZ development.
• Experience with TRIZ research. Publications related to TRIZ research and development.
• Training skills with TRIZ and experience with conducting TRIZ training.
• Full or partial use of TRIZ in professional activities.