Ideal Final Result - Applications

Applications

The concept of IFR can be applied not only to engineering (as it was originally intended), but also to other systems and domains. As Genrich Altshuller, the founder of TRIZ, explained, when IFR is used as a methodology for finding the best solutions, it works like a flashlight thrown into darkness: we may not know what there is - in that darkness, but if the flashlight falls, stays there, and continues to give light, we at least know that there is some hard surface to step on or to move towards. In engineering, a typical IFR is the idea of "perpetual motion" machine. Inventors may not achieve the ideal result (French Academy of Science does not even take the patent applications for it), but striving for this high ideal allowed inventors to create numerous mechanisms with minimum friction, thus moving technology forward. In the field of education, the concept of IFR helped to create the models of Ideal Education, Ideal Learner, and Ideal Teacher, all of which paved the way to Creative Pedagogy.