Contradiction Formulation (Engineering Contradiction)
Turn a messy situation into a solvable TRIZ problem by expressing it as a trade-off between two parameters.
Physical Contradiction + Separation Principles
Break a deadlock where the same parameter must be simultaneously high and low by separating requirements across conditions.
System Operator (9 Windows)
Escape tunnel vision by analyzing the problem across time (past/present/future) and hierarchy (subsystem/system/supersystem).
X-Operator (Exaggeration / Extremes)
Force breakthrough ideas by pushing a system parameter to an extreme and observing what must change to make it work.