TRIZ News - Results from #42

Updated: 25 March 2020

WTSP

Toru Nakagawa (WTSP Project Leader) Toru Nakagawa.148

"TRIZ Home Page in Japan":

http://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/nakagawa/TRIZ/eTRIZ/

Dear TRIZ Leaders/colleagues,

In the midst of the growing crisis in the world due to the COVID-19, we pray for the health of you and all

people in the world and for our early overcoming of this severe trials for the world.

I have updated my Web site 3 days ago (dated Mar. 22). "TRIZ Home Page in Japan":

http://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/nakagawa/TRIZ/eTRIZ/

[1] "Dr. Ed N. Sickafus Memorial Archives" Is Now Open Ed Sickafus

Inside "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" (Toru Nakagawa)

Photo of Dr. Ed Sickafus (Mar. 10, 1999, Toru)

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The Archives has the page structure as follows:

(0) Top Index Page

(1) Memorial Page (Posted earlier) (Oct. 31, 2019)

(2) Historical Indexes to Papers, Case Studies, and Communications On USIT and Its Further Extension

by Dr. Ed Sickafus and His Followers Especially in Japan

(A) Papers: Papers, Presentations, Reports, Introductory articles, Lectures

Papers (by Dr. Ed Sickafus and some other international authors)

Papers (by Toru Nakagawa)

Papers (by Japanese authors)

(B) Case Studies : Case study papers, Reports, Promotion activities

Case studies (by Dr. Ed Sickafus)

Case studies (by Toru Nakagawa)

Case studies (by authors in Japan)

Communications (by Dr. Ed Sickafus)

Communications (by Toru Nakagawa)

Communications (in Japan)

Communications (International)

(3) Sickafus' Books, Overviews, Tutorials, etc.

USIT Textbook (1997),

USIT Overview (eBook) (2001),

Book "Heuristics for Solving Technical Problems (2004),

HI Textbook: "Heuristic Innovation" (2006) ,

Brief USIT Tutorial (2015)

(4) Sickafus' Papers and Presentations 9 papers/presentations are posted.

(5) Sickafus' USIT Web site (www.u-sit.net)

Originally built in 1999, rebuilt a few times after mal hacking, and now accessible as was in 2007.

All the articles are restored in the Archives.

(6) Sickafus' WordPress Blog site (edsickafus.wordpress.net)

After the troubles in USIT Web site, Dr. Sickafus started to build a new Blog site in Cloud in Jul. 2015

and left the half-done site in Nov. 2015. All the articles are restored in the Archives.

(7) Sickafus' "U-SIT and Think NewsLetters"

NL-01 (Nov. 2003) to NL-28 (Oct. 2004) are posted both in English and in Japanese.

NL-29 to NL-79 (Mar. 2009) will be posted in English.

Mini Lectures are interesting.

(8) Sickafus' Communications and Miscellaneous Articles

(under construction)

(9) Comments on Sickafus' Works by Others

(under construction)

(10) Communications from Readers

(under construction)

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For the purpose of keeping Late Dr. Ed Sickafus' work widely known in the world, the Dr. Ed Sickafus Memorial Archives is built and opened publicly inside this "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" Web site.

Dr. Sickafus originally developed USIT (Unified Structured Inventive Thinking) and continued to extend it further to build concise and effective methods for creative problem solving in his own approaches.

I learned from him a lot since our first meeting in 1998, and introduced USIT into Japan.

Integration of USIT and TRIZ has driven into the new paradigm, named Six-Box Scheme, for the general methodology of creative problem solving.

USIT has obtained many followers in Japan who used it in their problem solving jobs.

In the present Web site, many papers and communications by Dr. Sickafus have been posted both in English and in Japanese translation.

Lately Dr. Sickafus, overcoming the logical and structured nature of USIT, spent his much efforts for building 'methods of solving problems more freely and effectively for professional technologists', 'methods of generating innovative solution concepts without constrained by logic and structures', 'methods of triggering with metaphors for the effective use of subconscious problem solving capability', etc.

He presented such new approaches in his keynote lectures at Japan TRIZ Symposium in 2006 and at ICSI 2015 conference in San Jose. Both of his keynotes were posted in our Web site in English and in Japanese translation.

However, we have not understood well his new approaches yet; I recognized this point through my compilation work of the present Memorial Archives.

The books, papers, articles, communications, etc which Dr. Sickafus has left for us all contain valuable insights from which we can learn a lot, I believe.

-- Dr. Ed Sickafus is one of my 'Teachers in Life'.

Best wishes,

Toru

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Updated: 14 February 2020

WTSP

Toru Nakagawa (WTSP Project Leader) Toru Nakagawa.148

"TRIZ Home Page in Japan":

http://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/nakagawa/TRIZ/eTRIZ/

(Sorry but some of you have just received a [WTSP] Letter

from me, with different emphasis.

This time my emphasis on the introduction of my site.)

[1] Features and Selected articles of "TRIZ Home Page in Japan".

(Toru Nakagawa)

[2] Attractive and Useful !! Our WTSP Catalogs Will Be !!

WTSP strategy for our 3rd year, 2020. (Toru Nakagawa)

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[1] Features and Selected articles of "TRIZ Home Page in Japan".

(Toru Nakagawa)

I have written an overview introduction of my site for the sake of the World WTSP Catalogs.

My site has a history of 21 years and contains about 1400 HTML articles in Japanese and about 1100 HTML articles in English.

Special features of my site are

(1) parallel pages in Japanese and in English,

(2) Various facilities for accessing articles.

I have selected about 160 articles (written by many people in Japan and overseas, as well as by myself).

I have grouped them firstly in the time period and then in the themes of my own research interests and further

in the activities in Japan and in the world.

(a) Introducing TRIZ （1997～2001）

(b) Introducing USIT (Unified Structured Inventive Thinking) 1998 - 2001)

(d) Absorbing Modernized TRIZ　（Attending at international

conferences, Darrell Mann's Systematic Innovation) (2001 - 2004）

(e) Finding 'Six-Box Scheme: A new paradigm of creative problem solving' through USIT studies (2003 - 2006)

(f) Launch and Activities of Japan TRIZ Society and Japan TRIZ Symposia (2005 - 2008)

(g) Education with TRIZ / USIT (Education practice at Osaka Gakuin University) (2000 - 2012)

(h) Activities of Japan TRIZ Society and extension of international relationships (2009 - 2012)

(i) Proposal of "General Methodology of Creative Problem Solving (CrePS)" based on the Six-Box Scheme (2012 - 2016)

(j) Various topics of communications, issues, and interests in wider scopes (2011 - 2019)

(k) Applying CrePS/TRIZ to Social Issues, and Having realized the Principal Contradiction of Human Culture (2015 - 2019)

(l) Building Catalogs of TRIZ-related Sites in the World (WTSP Project) (Dec, 2017 - present)

This is just like a summary of how I learned TRIZ/USIT and extended them further while applying them and working

on various themes, for these 20+ years.

[2] Attractive and Useful !! Our WTSP Catalogs Will Be !!

WTSP strategy for our 3rd year, 2020. (Toru Nakagawa) Last October, we have built the preliminary version of

the World TRIZ-related Sites Catalogs.

Our goals for the 3rd year of WTSP are to get higher evaluation (by professionals as well as beginners)

that our WTSP Catalogs are much more useful than ordinary internet surveys because of well-selected sites

with fair and close introductions for each.

Besides the orthodox approach of forming WTSP Teams in every country to build Country WTSP Catalogs, I would

like to suggest a second way based on the "20 - 80 % rule".

Let's pursue to make our WTSP Catalogs Attractive and

Useful!!

We just need Attractive and Useful introductions of Attractive and Useful Web sites in the world.

We should invite owners (or any keyperson) who are proud of their sites being Attractive and Useful (for many

readers/users) to describe Attractive and Useful introductions of their sites and to contribute them to the WTSP Catalogs.

If you are ordinary readers/users of TRIZ supporting our WTSP project, please send emails to your leaders and site

owners for encouraging them.

For the site description we so far used

(a) Single line in the Index table of the WTSP Catalogs

(b) Site Description in the Standard Format (1 page of A4)

We now have introduced

Introduction of my site [1] is a sample I made, even though it becomes larger (about 15 pages) than usual.

I hope the sample [1] is Attractive and Useful for many readers/users.

Styles of site introduction may be chosen differently depending on the nature of the sites.

Once 5 or 10 sites demonstrate such Attractive and Useful introductions of sites, then many more sites will follow.

(This is the expectation from the "20 - 80 % rule".)

Looking forward to hearing from you and working with you, Together ! Connected !!

Best wishes,

Toru

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Director of CrePS Institute: Publication of "TRIZ Practices and Benefits" book series (in Japanese)

3-1-13 Eirakudai, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-0086, Japan.

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