A good book for getting started with TRIZ and preparing for the Level 1 exam can now be found on the MATRIZ Official homepage. The “GEN TRIZ Knowledge Transfer Basic Module, Manual (July 2019)” contains introductions to these topics:
- Main Parameters of Value Discovery
- Function Analysis
- Cause-Effect Chains Analysis
- Trimming
- Inventive Principle Application: Engineering Contradictions and Altshuller’s Matrix
- Resolving Physical Contradictions
- Patent Circumvention (via Trimming)
Here you can download the PDF for free.