Updated: 4 November 2019
WTSP
Toru Nakagawa (WTSP Project Leader)
Dear WTSP Members,
I have updated the "TRIZ Home Page in Japan".
http://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/nakagawa/TRIZ/eTRIZ/
[1] Memorial of Dr. Ed Sickafus (1931 - 2018)
The developer of USIT passed away on Nov. 15 last year.
[2] On the 21st Anniversary of "TRIZ Home Page in Japan"
[3] WTSP Mails and Letters: Sept.－Oct. 2019
[4] Significance of the WTSP Project and its WTSP Catalogs:
Communications with Bill Fowlkes (USA)
==> See Fowlkes' message on the right.
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[1] Memorial of Dr. Ed Sickafus (1931 - 2018)
(Toru Nakagawa, Late Dr. Ed Sickafus, Kurt Edward Sickafus)
Dr. Edward Nathan Sickafus (the developer of USIT) passed away
nearly a year ago, on November 15, 2018.
I noticed the sad news on July 5, 2019 as a result of
Internet search, after wondering why no email response from
him for several months.
I sent an air mail to his deceased wife, Mrs. Mary Sue Sickafus,
and got an email response from his elder son, Dr. Kurt Edward
Sickafus on Aug. 3, 2019.
I am sorry to be late in announcing this sad news to
TRIZ/USIT community, because I was waiting for some more
information from the family.
The present page posts: Heritage News (Nov. 2018);
Communications between Nakagawa and the deceased family
Our last email communications with Dr. Ed. Sickafus (Sept. 2018)
Plan of the Dr. Ed Sickafus Memorial Archives.
Please contribute your tributes to Dr. Ed Sickafus to the present page.
[2] On the 21st Anniversary of "TRIZ Home Page in Japan": Toru Nakagawa (Nov. 1, 2019)
This Web site "TRIZ Home in Japan" celebrates its 21st Anniversary today, Nov. 1.
I am very grateful to you all, including authors, translators,
and readers in Japan and around the world, for your continuing support.
(snips)
[3] WTSP Mails and Letters: Sept.－Oct. 2019
14 articles (containing 11 of [WTSP] Letters and HP Updates)
[4] Significance of the WTSP Project and its WTSP Catalogs:
Communications with Bill Fowlkes (USA)
Dr. Bill Fowlkes is VP of IP.com (USA) and was an active
user of TRIZ software (Tech Optimizer and IWB) many years ago.
While looking for new information about TRIZ software, he met
my Web site (probably the page of 'World 120 TRIZ Links' (2008)).
So he sent me a message via LinkedIn.
I mentioned him about our WTSP project and the newly-completed
WTSP Catalogs (2019).
He found it a terrific reference.
On my request, he wrote the introduction of his site
(coded as TN3E-23 in WTSP Catalog) in our standard Site Description Form.
It is a nice example written by a professional in Intellectual
Properties (i.e., an area AROUND TRIZ).
So, I asked him to write a message of his impression of WTSP.
For doing so, he wanted to understand the structure of the
WTSP project and the WTSP Catalogs.
I sent an explanation.
Then he sent us his message soon.
It expresses the heart of the WTSP project and WTSP Catalogs.
I am very grateful to Dr. Bill Fowlkes and very happy to cite
his message in the attached GIF file.
All the communications between Dr. Bill Fowlkes and myself
are posted in the English page.
Best wishes,
Toru
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Updated: 1 October 2019
WTSP
Toru Nakagawa (WTSP Project Leader)
Dear WTSP Members,
I have completed the Sept. 30, 2019 Version of the WTSP Catalogs
and have uploaded the set in "TRIZ Home Page in Japan".
(C) World AROUND-TRIZ Sites Basic Index (◎○): Completed
(A) World TRIZ Sites Basic Index (◎○): Minor revision
(B) World TRIZ Sites Extended Index (◎○□): No trial
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[1] World WTSP Catalogs:
(C) World Around-TRIZ Sites Basic Index (◎○) Toru Nakagawa Sept. 30, 2019
WTSP Catalog of "AROUND-TRIZ" Web sites in the world has been
completed and posted as an important component of the Revised
Preliminary Version (Sept. 30, 2019) of the WTSP World TRIZ-related Sites Catalogs .
This reflects our philosophy that we should think and work
with a wider scope not limited to (classical and modernized) TRIZ
but covering various methodologies and practices having common purposes and goals.
So we made intensive Internet surveys with the keywords including:
Creative Thinking Method, Creative Problem Solve;
Innovation process/strategy,
Quality/value/cost/productivity,
Patent/Intellectual property, etc.
In 6 cases of surveys, we detected 1,008 sites in total and
visited them one by one for understanding them roughly.
Thus we got and evaluated as ◎ 36 sites, ○ 137 sites, and
□ 287 sites (allowing overlaps among the survey cases).
In addition, for the sense of 'TRIZ inclusive", some of
◎○ sites in the area of TRIZ (especially having some extensions from TRIZ) are included.
Also ◎○□ sites around TRIZ in Japan are also included
for showing our intention of the scope.
In the present 'World Around-TRIZ Sites Basic Index',
we took the ◎○ sites and categorized and arranged them
according to their (main) roles of sites.
The categories are:
(a) Information sending sites, (b) Promoter organizations,
(c) Public organizations, (d) Academia,
(e) Developer organizations, (e5) Training organizations,
(f) Publishing organizations, (g) Information sharing,
(h) User organizations, (i) Personal.
The present version includes
◎ 34 sites, ○ 128 sites, and □ 13 sites.
All the sites are described to some extents mostly by using
the excerpts of the top pages or 'About us' pages of the sites.
-- All these sites in the WTSP Catalogs are valuable and
useful information sources with respect to TRIZ and
related methods.
All of us, from beginners to experts in some of these areas,
can learn much from them and may introduce them to many
people in the world.
[2] Minor revision of (A) World TRIZ Sites Basic Index (◎○)
During last August and September, I have received the WTSP
manuscripts only from the Russian language (RUL) Team.
Michael Orloff revised his table (submitted in July) by adding
2 new sites and updating the description of 1 site.
For the purpose of making a well balanced (C) Around-TRIZ
Index, I selected several ◎○ TRIZ sites (including 2 new
ones) and wrote introductions of them.
These are the only revisions we did on the World TRIZ Sites Index.
--- The present (A) World TRIZ Sites Basic Index is poor
in comparison to the desirable one (and even to our (C) Index).
Many important and useful TRIZ sites are missing.
because the manuscripts are contributed by only 4 country
teams (among 30-40 countries).
Individual sites are not described/introduced enough to understand their natures and features.
Please take a glance of our WTSP Catalogs, especially (A) and (C).
We are going to give a presentation of the WTSP Project on Oct. 10, 2019 at the ETRIA TFC in Marrakech, Morocco.
We wish to have your feedback on the Catalogs and on the project.
Let's work Together ! Connected !!
But how can we really work Together ? Connected ??
Best wishes,
Toru
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