Boris Zlotin is considered one of the foremost theorists in the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ) in the world today. With over 47 years as a TRIZ expert, Boris trained over 10,000 people to apply TRIZ, solved over 30,000 inventive problems. He is a multiple patent-holder and author of books, papers, and special publications on TRIZ.
Born into a family of an engineer and a history teacher, he grew up in Podporozhye, USSR. Graduated from vocational school and the Leningrad (St. Petersburg) Polytechnic Institute. Worked for 20 years at the company Electrosila as a metal worker, designer, and research engineer. In 1974 learned about TRIZ and started inventing. In 1978 Boris became the head of the Value Engineering group starting a career as a professional investor. Moved to Chisinau in 1982 and together with Alla Zusman founded a TRIZ School, became one of the leading developers and instructors in TRIZ. In close collaboration with Genrich Altshuller, the TRIZ founder conducted 12 month-long TRIZ education courses and published 4 books. In 1986, together with Vladimir Proseanic, Alla Zusman and Svetlana Visnepolschi founded the first in the USSR private engineering company Progress providing TRIZ services, education, and conducting TRIZ software development. In the early 1990s, he moved to the United States and co-founded Ideation International Inc.
Boris is the author of a number of publications on various aspects of TRIZ mainly co-authored with his wife, Alla Zusman. One of their main works is a methodology for solving scientific problems, a suite of TRIZ-based software products, and the methodology Directed Evolution® (a method for managing technological evolution using TRIZ). Other developments include methods for identifying roots and predicting failures and other undesirable phenomena (together with Svetlana Visnepolschi), evaluating, and enhancing intellectual property (together with Vladimir Proseanic).
In recent years, Boris Zlotin together with Vladimir Proseanic co-funded two start-ups Progress, Inc. and Omega Server, Inc. conducting the development and marketing brand new type of neural network – Progressive Artificial Neural Network (PANN).
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