Comment by rramadass

Excellent Article! Definitely needs to be read a few times to get the gist.

In this context folks might find a previous methodology from the Soviet era named TRIZ highly relevant - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIZ

TRIZ (/trɪz/; Russian: теория решения изобретательских задач, romanized: teoriya resheniya izobretatelskikh zadach, lit. 'theory of inventive problem solving') is a methodology which combines an organized, systematic method of problem-solving with analysis and forecasting techniques derived from the study of patterns of invention in global patent literature.

TRIZ developed from a foundation of research into hundreds of thousands of inventions in many fields to produce an approach which defines patterns in inventive solutions and the characteristics of the problems which these inventions have overcome.

References:

TRIZ 40 Principles examples for various Domains - https://web.archive.org/web/20111203105442/http://www.triz-j...

TRIZ and Software - 40 Principle Analogies, Part 1 - https://web.archive.org/web/20120130205515/http://www.triz-j...

TRIZ and Software - 40 Principle Analogies, Part 2 - https://web.archive.org/web/20120131003258/http://www.triz-j...