<正> As a result of the fierceness of business competition, companies, to remain competitive,have to charm their customers by anticipating their needs and being able to rapidly develop excitingnew products for them. To overcome this challenge, technology forecasting is considered as a pow-erful tool in today’s business environment, while there are as many success stories as there are fail-ures, a good application of this method will give a good result. A methodology of integration ofpatterns or lines of technology evolution in TRIZ parlance is presented, which is also known asTRIZ technology forecasting, as input to the QFD process to design a new product. For this purpose,TRlZ technology forecasting, one of the TRIZ major tools, is discussed and some benefits comparedto the traditional forecasting techniques are highlighted. Then a methodology to integrate TRIZtechnology forecasting and QFD process is highlighted.
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