TRIZ News - Results from #8

Updated: 29 April 2023

Toru Nakagawa (OGU, WTSP Project Leader)

"TRIZ Home Page in Japan":

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

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Dear TRIZ Colleagues and WTSP Members

Apr. 29, 2023 Toru Nakagawa (OGU, WTSP Project Leader)

We have submitted our (draft) paper "WTSP Report (6)" to the ETRIA TFC2023 (to be held on Sept. 12-14, 2023).

Abstract is: This is the sixth annual report of WTSP (World TRIZ-related Sites Project).

We have already built the World Catalogs of Around-TRIZ (i.e., Creative Problem-Solving Methods in general

around TRIZ) Websites (with 419 sites) by September 2022.

But the World Catalogs of TRIZ Websites was made with only 62 Websites at that time, due to the lack of voluntary

cooperation in many countries. Our difficulty is: "Many TRIZ colleagues support the WTSP Project,

but very few of them actually work to build the World WTSP Catalogs". World TRIZ Sites .201

The obvious reason is: "The talented people in TRIZ are always too busy in their business to do extra voluntary work".

In order to overcome the difficulties, we have made many different efforts to clarify our visions, build framework

structures, show examples, send letters, publish results, etc. for 5 years and this year 2023.

We now understand that the core of the hidden reasons is:

"People do not yet recognize the (possible) Values ("Useful and Attractive") of the World WTSP Catalogs because they have

not yet really seen the Catalogs".

Therefore the present paper is dedicated to "explain the possible Values by showing the structures and examples

and to convince people that we, the TRIZ experts in different countries, should create the Values and that such

a Value creation is achievable with the procedure already demonstrated".

The paper summarizes the actual/targeted situations in 58 countries of the world for the preparation of the

Gamma Edition of the World WTSP Catalogs.

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And I have posted a new article on LinkedIn, and re-posted it on my website together with some other communications.

"Please Help to Enhance the WTSP Catalogs of TRIZ Websites in the World: Many Good Websites Are Still Missing in the Catalogs"

(Toru Nakagawa, LinkedIn Apr. 27, 2023)

Top figure and the PDF file of this posting are attached here.

The Top figure shows the Most Important (◎) TRIZ Websites in our current tentative version World TRIZ Sites Catalogs.

In the Beta Edition (2020) we had 23 ◎ sites. We have added the 6 new sites shown with stars,

but we are still missing several (about 10 ?) excellent sites from the current Catalogs.

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

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

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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

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(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 2023 toru 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

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(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.

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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

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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

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Details: Category: TRIZ News

Updated: 19 March 2023

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,

Toru Nakagawa (OGU, WTSP Project Leader)

Hello, How are you, your family, and the people in your country?

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Hello, how are you?

As you might know well, we have been working hard for these 5+ years to build and improve the WTSP Catalogs of TRIZ and Around-TRIZ Sites in the World.

Our basic strategy was bottom-up as:

to form a WTSP Team of voluntary TRIZ colleagues in each country,

to build WTSP Catalogs of TRIZ-related websites of each country,

and finally to integrate them into the World WTSP Catalogs.

This process worked only in 4 countries (Japan, Malaysia, China, and Russian Language region) by 2019.

So I made top-down Internet surveys of TRIZ sites in the World (Case TN2A), and also TRIZ sites located in USA (Case TN2F).

Using these data, we built the Preliminary Edition of World WTSP Catalogs in Oct. 2019, and revised it into the Beta Edition in Nov. 2020.

World WTSP Catalogs of Around-TRIZ Sites are reasonably-well built by the intensive Internet surveys and site introductions by Nakagawa.

WTSP activities in individual contries have been very slow till recently. WTSP Teams are not formed yet in many countries.

This year we urge TRIZ leaders/colleagues in every country to make manuscript of their Country Part of World WTSP TRIZ

Site Catalogs and to improve individual site descriptions.

We wish TRIZ leaders/colleagues in USA to revise the USA Part of World WTSP TRIZ Catalogs.

We set our goal to report the Gamma Edition of World WTSP Catalogs of TRIZ Sites at ETRIA TFC2023, Sept, 12-14, 2023,

The new Edition must be "Useful and Attractive".

My present message has two purposes:

(A) To inform you of my recent messages sent to various countries. (A1) Call for Contributions to WTSP Catalogs. (early Feb.)

(A2) Information/discussion of WTSP Activities in Korea (Mar. 16-17)

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

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(A1) Call for Contributions to WTSP Catalogs.

Subject: [WTSP] Letter (33C-2XX) XXCountry Part of World WTSP Catalogs -- Call for Contributions, Date: (early-to-mid) Feb 2023

From: Toru Nakagawa

Dear TRIZ colleagues in XXCountry,

XXXX-1, XXXX-2, ..... XXXX-n

Feb. dd, 2023 Toru Nakagawa (OGU, Leader of WTSP)

How are you? and how about the people working with TRIZ in your country?

As you might know well, we have been working to create and improve the WTSP Catalogs of TRIZ and Around-TRIZ Sites in the world.

This year, we are going to make our best effort for establishing the Catalogs of TRIZ Sites by the collaborative work of the TRIZ community over the world.

Please form a WTSP Team of XXCountry first, and then:

Could you please contribute a manuscript of XXCountry Part of World WTSP Catalogs of TRIZ Sites (by a WTSP Team of XXCountry) and

introductions of each website (by the Site Owners) in the Standard Form (one A4 page) for the sites (◎○□）

and (optionally) in free format in detail (2-20+ pages) for the sites (◎○).

Please refer to our official announcement of "Call for Contributions to the WTSP Catalogs of TRIZ Sites in the World"

https://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/nakagawa/TRIZ/eTRIZ/eWTSP/eWTSP-B7-News2023/eWTSP-CallContributions-230131.html

(also attached here in PDF)

It is a compact but full document for Instructions and References for the WTSP activities.

Everybody is busy in their jobs, we know. But Collaborative work for your Country Part of the Catalogs, and your Introductions of your own sites

will make the World Catalogs "Useful and Attractive" for many people in your country and over the world.

Looking forward to hearing from XXCountry.

Best wishes,

Toru

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(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 2023