Updated: 20 June 2023

toru nakagawa

Toru Nakagawa (OGU, WTSP Project Leader) 

    "TRIZ Home Page in Japan":

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

-----------------------------------------------

Dear TRIZ Colleagues and WTSP Members   

Hello, how are you?

This [WTSP] Letter is an e-mail communication for reporting and promoting WTSP (World TRIZ-related Sites Project).

   It is sent to about 200 people in the TRIZ Community around the world.

   Most of you are familiar to [WTSP] Letter for many years, while some of you may be new to it even though you might

   know about WTSP to some extent.

   We wish you to join/support the WTSP project as an important activity for proliferating TRIZ world wide.

I have updated the "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" tonight (dated Jun. 19) and posted the following two articles:

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

[1] Update of (A2) WTSP Organization and List of Members

[2] World WTSP Catalogs: Unfinished Source Data Manuscripts  (Index Page)

---------------------------------

[1] Update of (A2) WTSP Organization and List of Members

   The page '(A2) Organization of WTSP' has been updated. The list of Members includes 94 people from 33 different countries.

    About 40 of them have submitted the Membership Application Form, while others have explicitly expressed their will to

    join WTSP but have not yet submitted the Application Form,

    We have sent our [WTSP] Letters to about 200 people around the world since the start of the project.

    So there are many TRIZ leaders and colleagues who are not listed in the table, but who support the WTSP project.

    If you want to contribute to the WTSP, please contact the Country Editor of your country or one of other WTSP leaders shown here.

    We would like your help to make the World Catalogs of TRIZ Sites more "Useful and Attractive".

[2] World WTSP Catalogs: Unfinished Source Data Manuscripts (Index Page)

    Before being published in the World WTSP Catalogs, individual manuscripts (e.g., for a country or a SIG) must go through

    the following 5 Stages:

      (1) Initial survey stage,

      (2) Preliminary manuscript stage,

      (3) Completed manuscript stage,

      (4) Published source data stage,

      (5) Published World Catalog stage.

     Stages (1)(2) are carried out by country/SIG teams, while stages (3)(4)(5) are carried out by the Project Leader (TN).

     Manuscripts at various stages are received by TN from countries/SIGs and are openly posted (or just mentioned)

     on this WTSP site as a basis of further improvement.

     This new page lists such unfinished manuscripts which are at Stages (1) to (5), for the purpose of recording without

     loss/missing, making access easier, and encouraging further preparation/improvement of the manuscripts.

     It currently lists:

       Internet surveys of 52 individual countries (Stage (1a)),

       Summary of Internet surveys of 40 countries (1b);

       Preliminary manuscript of websites in Korea (2b),

       Partial & preliminary manuscripts of websites in Taiwan (2a),

       Revised manuscript of websites in Russian-language region (3a),

       Completed manuscripts of websites in UK (4a)(4b),

       Completed manuscripts of websites in Germany (4a)(4b),

       Completed revised manuscript of websites in Malaysia (4b).

     Please contribute new/revised manuscripts of websites in your country/SIG.

     We would like to improve/enhance the World WTSP Catalogs of TRIZ websites and publish a new edition this year.

    Let's work Together ! Connected !!

     Best wishes,

     Toru

--------------------------

Toru Nakagawa,  Dr.,  Professor Emeritus, Osaka Gakuin University

E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. [Main email address.  For receiving.]

          This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. [For sending (& receiving)]

          This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. [For sending Update Announcements] Editor of the "TRIZ Home Page in Japan":

      https://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/nakagawa/TRIZ/eTRIZ/">URL:https://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/nakagawa/TRIZ/eTRIZ/

Project Leader of World TRIZ-related Sites Project (WTSP) Director of CrePS Institute:

      Publication of "TRIZ Practices and Benefits" book series  (in Japanese)

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

     Phone & FAX:  +81-4-7167-7403

------------------------------------------

(A2) Information/discussion of WTSP Activities in Korea

    Subject: [WTSP] Letter (33C-3XX) XXCountry Part of World WTSP Catalogs -- Call for Contributions --Ref. WTSP Activities in Korea 

    Date: 16-17 Mar 2023toru nakagawa

    From: Toru Nakagawa 

    Dear TRIZ colleagues in XXCountry,  XXXX-1, XXXX-2, ... XXXX-n 

          Mar. 16-17, 2023  Toru Nakagawa (OGU, Leader of WTSP)

    Hello, how are you?  How is the WTSP activity coming in your country?

    On Feb. 19, I got a report of WTSP Activites in Korea from Min-Gyu Lee and replied next day.

      I posted these communications on our WTSP Forum page of "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" on Mar. 14.

https://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/nakagawa/TRIZ/eTRIZ/eWTSP/eWTSP-B7-News2023/eWTSP-Forum2023A.html#WTSP-Korea-2302

      The communications discuss some serious/common issues of TRIZ-related information.

      So I posted a brief article on LinkedIn (especially in the 'TRIZ and Innovation' Group) on Mar. 15.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/toru-nakagawa-b2453216_activity-7041827351147540480-TmfB?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

      Please look at its Top Figure first in .gif, which is attached here, and then the text in .pdf, which is attached here also.

    In short, Min-Gyu Lee has compiled Korea Part of World WTSP TRIZ Catalogs, and his team finds "there are NOT so many great TRIZ sites in Korea".

      This is strange and contradictory against the fact that Korea achieved a great success in its businesses/economy with active introduction of TRIZ.

      He describes various background situations which cause such unexpected results of TRIZ websites.

      He finally remarks that "we (the Korean TRIZ society) do not share TRIZ-related information enough, and we are losing

        some of old but good information and people."

      The whole situations are more or less the same in many countries in the world, I am afraid.

      Why? and What to do? -- We have to consider seriously. I replied:

         " ... In spite of such situations, industry management sometimes gives talks, researchers present/publish

           their work in conferences/journals, and consultants show case studies.

           So we should collect the websites that contain such information (in the WTSP Catalogs)."

       I wish you all, TRIZ leaders/colleagues/users, to understand the value of the World WTSP Catalogs,

           to read/use the WTSP Catalogs, and to contribute/work for making the World WTSP Catalogs more "Useful and Attractive".

     Looking forward to hearing from you about your thoughts and recent WTSP (and other TRIZ-related) activities in your country

       (and in relation to your website).

      Please contribute a manuscript of your country part of World WTSP Catalogs and an introduction of your own website.

    Best wishes,

    Toru

-----------------------------------

(B) Please form a WTSP Team of USA, and update and enhance the current USA Part of World WTSP Catalogs of TRIZ Sites.

     I made the current version of USA Part and posted it on the "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" in Jul. 2019.

     In the web page, the process of my survey and site description, and further steps-to-go are written.

     Please follow the instructions in (A1) with reference to many samples in the current active World WTSP Catalogs.

     Here are some specific suggestions for you in USA:

     (a) First, look at the current state of USA Part (or Case TN2F), and check if your own website and some more sites

           you would recommend are listed and introduced properly. You should better compare them with other sites in

           other contries where many sites are listed well and the site introductions are written carefully.

      (b) Get several (up to 20?) volunteers who find the weak points of the current WTSP Catalogs and are willing

            to work to improve the WTSP Catalogs.

      (c) Assign or volunteer to be the coordinators of such people. Multiple coordinators (i.e., WTSP Country Editors of USA) may be necessary, I suppose.

          Anyone who becomes a WTSP Country Editor should submit the WTSP Membership Application Form to the WTSP Project Leader (TN).

      (d) Any recommendor or site owner may send brief introductions of the site(s) to the WTSP Team.

          Site owners should write the introduction of his/her own site in the WTSP Standard Form (1 page in A4).

            Please learn various codes for categorization and describe the intorduction faithfully and attractively.

       (e) Evaluation of individual sites is a delicate job.

             Please learn the WTSP Evaluation Criteria and compare the site with various other sites in the WTSP Catalogs.

           If a site owner wants to have the site evaluated high, he/she should write the site introduction properly.

             A close description of the site in the additional free-format style may be a good idea.

       (f) Due date:

             Revised Manuscript of the USA Part of World WTSP Catalogs of TRIZ Sites:  Apr. 16,2023 Site descriptions of individual sites:  Jun. 10, 2023

    For your reference, we have been sending the [WTSP] Letters to the following people in USA.

       Mansour Ashtiani     This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

       Isak Bukhman            This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

       Ellen Domb This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

       Victor Fey    This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

       Bill Fowlkes This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

       Richard Langevin      This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

       Simon Litvin                This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

       Larry K. Ball This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

       Timothy G. Clapp      This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

       Dana W. Clarke           This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

       Donald Coates           This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

       Sergei Ikovenko         This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

       Len Kaplan  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

       Bob King               This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

       Don Masingale           This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

       Joe Miller     This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

       Herbert Roberts        This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

       Zinovy Royzen           This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

       Philip Samuel             This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

       Timothy Schweizer   This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

       Larry Smith This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

       David Troness             This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

       Boris Zlotin  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

       Alla Zusman This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

        You may forward this email to any TRIZ colleagues in USA who might be interested in.

    Please contact with me on any questions/comments, etc.

    Looking forward to hearing from you,

    Best wishes,

    Toru

    Let's make the World WTSP Catalogs Useful and Attractive !!!

    Best wishes.

   Toru

    -----------------------------------------------------------------

Toru Nakagawa,  Dr.,  Professor Emeritus, Osaka Gakuin University

E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. [Main email address.  For receiving.]

           This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. [For sending (& receiving)]

           This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. [For sending Update Announcements] Editor of the "TRIZ Home Page in Japan":

       https://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/nakagawa/TRIZ/eTRIZ/">URL:https://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/nakagawa/TRIZ/eTRIZ/

Project Leader of World TRIZ-related Sites Project (WTSP) Director of CrePS Institute:

       Publication of "TRIZ Practices and Benefits" book series (in Japanese)

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

      Phone & FAX:  +81-4-7167-7403

----------------------------------------------------------------

Updated: 11 June 2023

toru nakagawa

Toru Nakagawa (OGU, WTSP Project Leader) 

    "TRIZ Home Page in Japan":

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

-----------------------------------------------

Dear TRIZ Colleagues and WTSP Members   

Hello, how are you?

On Apr. 29, I sent you (and about 170 TRIZ Colleagues) my last WTSP Letter [WTSP] Letter (34M-1AB)

      Please Help to Enhance the WTSP Catalogs of TRIZ Websites. Many Good Websites Are Still Missing

     I have received NO positive response so far, to our pity.

    We are eagerly looking forward to your contributions of Manuscript of your Country Part of the

World WTSP TRIZ Catalogs and Site descriptions written by individual site owners

 (in Standard Form (mandatory) and in full-length free format (optional)

If you have made some preliminary version, please let me know and send it to me as soon as possible.

 I am now waiting for the referee comments on our ETRIA TFC paper, and have to submit the final paper by Jun. 30.

   We would like to reflect your manuscripts in it. The time schedule for preparing the Gamma Edition of the

        World WTSP Catalogs of TRIZ Sites by TFC2023 is quite tight.

    We would like your help to make the World Catalogs of TRIZ Sites more "Useful and Attractive".

    Let's work Together ! Connected !!

     Best wishes,

     Toru

--------------------------

Toru Nakagawa,  Dr.,  Professor Emeritus, Osaka Gakuin University

E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. [Main email address.  For receiving.]

          This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. [For sending (& receiving)]

          This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. [For sending Update Announcements] Editor of the "TRIZ Home Page in Japan":

      https://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/nakagawa/TRIZ/eTRIZ/">URL:https://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/nakagawa/TRIZ/eTRIZ/

Project Leader of World TRIZ-related Sites Project (WTSP) Director of CrePS Institute:

      Publication of "TRIZ Practices and Benefits" book series  (in Japanese)

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

     Phone & FAX:  +81-4-7167-7403

------------------------------------------

(A2) Information/discussion of WTSP Activities in Korea

    Subject: [WTSP] Letter (33C-3XX) XXCountry Part of World WTSP Catalogs -- Call for Contributions --Ref. WTSP Activities in Korea 

    Date: 16-17 Mar 2023toru nakagawa

    From: Toru Nakagawa 

    Dear TRIZ colleagues in XXCountry,  XXXX-1, XXXX-2, ... XXXX-n 

          Mar. 16-17, 2023  Toru Nakagawa (OGU, Leader of WTSP)

    Hello, how are you?  How is the WTSP activity coming in your country?

    On Feb. 19, I got a report of WTSP Activites in Korea from Min-Gyu Lee and replied next day.

      I posted these communications on our WTSP Forum page of "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" on Mar. 14.

https://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/nakagawa/TRIZ/eTRIZ/eWTSP/eWTSP-B7-News2023/eWTSP-Forum2023A.html#WTSP-Korea-2302

      The communications discuss some serious/common issues of TRIZ-related information.

      So I posted a brief article on LinkedIn (especially in the 'TRIZ and Innovation' Group) on Mar. 15.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/toru-nakagawa-b2453216_activity-7041827351147540480-TmfB?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

      Please look at its Top Figure first in .gif, which is attached here, and then the text in .pdf, which is attached here also.

    In short, Min-Gyu Lee has compiled Korea Part of World WTSP TRIZ Catalogs, and his team finds "there are NOT so many great TRIZ sites in Korea".

      This is strange and contradictory against the fact that Korea achieved a great success in its businesses/economy with active introduction of TRIZ.

      He describes various background situations which cause such unexpected results of TRIZ websites.

      He finally remarks that "we (the Korean TRIZ society) do not share TRIZ-related information enough, and we are losing

        some of old but good information and people."

      The whole situations are more or less the same in many countries in the world, I am afraid.

      Why? and What to do? -- We have to consider seriously. I replied:

         " ... In spite of such situations, industry management sometimes gives talks, researchers present/publish

           their work in conferences/journals, and consultants show case studies.

           So we should collect the websites that contain such information (in the WTSP Catalogs)."

       I wish you all, TRIZ leaders/colleagues/users, to understand the value of the World WTSP Catalogs,

           to read/use the WTSP Catalogs, and to contribute/work for making the World WTSP Catalogs more "Useful and Attractive".

     Looking forward to hearing from you about your thoughts and recent WTSP (and other TRIZ-related) activities in your country

       (and in relation to your website).

      Please contribute a manuscript of your country part of World WTSP Catalogs and an introduction of your own website.

    Best wishes,

    Toru

-----------------------------------

(B) Please form a WTSP Team of USA, and update and enhance the current USA Part of World WTSP Catalogs of TRIZ Sites.

     I made the current version of USA Part and posted it on the "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" in Jul. 2019.

     In the web page, the process of my survey and site description, and further steps-to-go are written.

     Please follow the instructions in (A1) with reference to many samples in the current active World WTSP Catalogs.

     Here are some specific suggestions for you in USA:

     (a) First, look at the current state of USA Part (or Case TN2F), and check if your own website and some more sites

           you would recommend are listed and introduced properly. You should better compare them with other sites in

           other contries where many sites are listed well and the site introductions are written carefully.

      (b) Get several (up to 20?) volunteers who find the weak points of the current WTSP Catalogs and are willing

            to work to improve the WTSP Catalogs.

      (c) Assign or volunteer to be the coordinators of such people. Multiple coordinators (i.e., WTSP Country Editors of USA) may be necessary, I suppose.

          Anyone who becomes a WTSP Country Editor should submit the WTSP Membership Application Form to the WTSP Project Leader (TN).

      (d) Any recommendor or site owner may send brief introductions of the site(s) to the WTSP Team.

          Site owners should write the introduction of his/her own site in the WTSP Standard Form (1 page in A4).

            Please learn various codes for categorization and describe the intorduction faithfully and attractively.

       (e) Evaluation of individual sites is a delicate job.

             Please learn the WTSP Evaluation Criteria and compare the site with various other sites in the WTSP Catalogs.

           If a site owner wants to have the site evaluated high, he/she should write the site introduction properly.

             A close description of the site in the additional free-format style may be a good idea.

       (f) Due date:

             Revised Manuscript of the USA Part of World WTSP Catalogs of TRIZ Sites:  Apr. 16,2023 Site descriptions of individual sites:  Jun. 10, 2023

    For your reference, we have been sending the [WTSP] Letters to the following people in USA.

       Mansour Ashtiani     This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

       Isak Bukhman            This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

       Ellen Domb This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

       Victor Fey    This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

       Bill Fowlkes This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

       Richard Langevin      This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

       Simon Litvin                This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

       Larry K. Ball This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

       Timothy G. Clapp      This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

       Dana W. Clarke           This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

       Donald Coates           This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

       Sergei Ikovenko         This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

       Len Kaplan  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

       Bob King               This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

       Don Masingale           This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

       Joe Miller     This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

       Herbert Roberts        This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

       Zinovy Royzen           This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

       Philip Samuel             This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

       Timothy Schweizer   This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

       Larry Smith This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

       David Troness             This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

       Boris Zlotin  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

       Alla Zusman This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

        You may forward this email to any TRIZ colleagues in USA who might be interested in.

    Please contact with me on any questions/comments, etc.

    Looking forward to hearing from you,

    Best wishes,

    Toru

    Let's make the World WTSP Catalogs Useful and Attractive !!!

    Best wishes.

   Toru

    -----------------------------------------------------------------

Toru Nakagawa,  Dr.,  Professor Emeritus, Osaka Gakuin University

E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. [Main email address.  For receiving.]

           This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. [For sending (& receiving)]

           This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. [For sending Update Announcements] Editor of the "TRIZ Home Page in Japan":

       https://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/nakagawa/TRIZ/eTRIZ/">URL:https://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/nakagawa/TRIZ/eTRIZ/

Project Leader of World TRIZ-related Sites Project (WTSP) Director of CrePS Institute:

       Publication of "TRIZ Practices and Benefits" book series (in Japanese)

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

      Phone & FAX:  +81-4-7167-7403

----------------------------------------------------------------