IC Guerrero is a Professional Level 3 Practitioner of TRIZ or the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving – the analysis, problem-solving, and technology forecasting methodology used by some of the world’s most successful companies. ICG is the only Filipino practitioner certified by the ASEAN Regional TRIZ Association, The Malaysia TRIZ Innovation Association (MyTRIZ), and also certified internationally, by the International TRIZ Association (MATRIZ) .
It is an achievement that appropriately caps a professional management career that spanned 36 years of work in one of the largest Philippine business conglomerates, the Ramcar Group of Companies. His deep insights in problem-solving, essentially one of the primary roles of any professional manager, were drawn from his assignments to various capacities within a dozen companies of the Ramcar Group not only in the Philippines but also in the United States, Australia, and Malaysia. The Group covered markets not only in ASEAN and the Pacific basin but also extended to the Middle East and Europe. His assignments included general management and production management at key manufacturing plants; design and implementation of quality, productivity and environmental management systems, Research and Product and Process Development, among others, in a broad range of industries that included heavy industrial plants for battery manufacturing, Lead metal smelting and plastics recycling; plastic and rubber products manufacturing, machine tools and dies fabrication as well as in two of the largest quick service restaurant chains in the country.
Retired but now pursuing a personal advocacy of helping local businesses and industries become more innovative, his goal is to make TRIZ an integral part of the Filipino innovator’s arsenal of tools in the same way that the world’s leading companies in many countries have used it to propel themselves to industry and business leadership. ICG is an established name in the professional consultancy and training circuit. He has lent his expertise in TRIZ to the management teams of several large corporations in the country, ASEAN, and the Middle East, as well as to the academe. No less than the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Faculty of the Philippines’ premier High School, the Philippine Science High School System’s 16 campuses nationwide, select academic groups at the University of the Philippines, and several Philippine and ASEAN companies have benefitted from his TRIZ training courses.
ICG obtained his Level 3 TRIZ certification from a training program conducted by the internationally renowned TRIZ Master Dr. Sergei Ikovenko, a Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, former President of MATRIZ and a protégé of Genrich Altschuller, the Father of TRIZ himself. He has undergone training for TRIZ practitioner, Instructor and Consultancy Certification under Dr. Teo S. Yeo of MyTRIZ, former Principal Engineer of Intel the leading TRIZ Instructor and Founding President of MyTRIZ. He has also undergone training in advanced TRIZ applications for Patent Development under Dr. Ikovenko; and Hybridization Algorithms under Valery Prushinsky, a leading TRIZ Master in Product Development and Principal Engineer of the Tech Innovation Group of the Samsung Display Research Institute.
ICGuerrero strongly believes that innovativeness need not be born to just a select few. It can be taught so that anybody can become an innovator. Innovation is the key to any business’s success. TRIZ is the way to acquire this knowledge.