17th TRIZ Symposium in Japan 2021
Sept. 2 (Thu) - 3 (Fri), 2021
Tokyo, Online

World TRIZ-related Sites Project (WTSP) (4):Construction and Enhancement of World WTSP Catalogsof TRIZ Sites and Around-TRIZ Sites
Toru Nakagawa (Osaka Gakuin University, Japan)
Darrell Mann

(Systematic Innovation Network, UK),

Michael Orloff(Academy of Instrumental Modern TRIZ, Germany),

Simon Dewulf(AULIVE & Innovation Logic , Australia)

Simon Litvin(GEN TRIZ, LLC., USA)

Valeri Souchkov (ICG Training & Consulting, Netherlands)

Outline of Presentation[1] Introduction: Aims of the WTSP Project
Situations and Proposal, Aims of the WTSP project,
Requirements for Catalogs, Criteria of site evaluation[2] Outputs: World WTSP Catalogs (Beta Edition, Oct. 2010)
Japan WTSP Catalogs, Set of World WTSP Catalogs,
World TRIZ Sites (◎ 23 sites), Building Catalogs of Around-TRIZ Sites,
World Around-TRIZ Sites (◎ 33), Structure of WTSP Catalogs (User's view),[３] Development of WTSP Catalogs：
Situations, Processes, Difficulties, and Strategy

History of WTSP activities, Difficulties in WTSP and strategy,
Site description in a standard form (by site owner), Optional close introduction,
Preparing manuscripts in each country, Variations of websites: Roles of sites,[4] Concluding Remarks

User's evaluation, TRIZ spirits in WTSP,
Some more final steps to the goal of WTSP,
Thanks, Let's work Together ! Connected !!

[1] Introduction: Aims of the WTSP Project[1A] Current TRIZ Situations ==> Proposal of WTSP・ A lot of activities and knowledge accumulation of TRIZ

・ Interests in TRIZ in the world are gradually decreasing for these 10+ years
・ Internet Searches for TRIZ give a lot but messy/noisy/insufficient information
・ Many TRIZ-related Websites, working separately and competingly

Dec. 2017 We started the WTSP Project
to build Catalogs of TRIZ-related websites in the world.
Websites are useful as the units of information resources:[better than papers, articles, web pages, books, journals, conferences, etc.]
・ represent some active bodies (organizations and key persons),
・ usually keep active for years and decades
・ post some volume/series of works at certain quality
・ accessible easily, openly, and mostly without charge
・ written easy-to-read, accumulated as documents, and kept up-to-date・ good as access points for further original references

[1B] Aims of the WTSP Project
Oct. 29, 2018 at TFC2018

・ To build Catalogs of TRIZ-related Websites- of each country (in their own language, then in English) and- of the whole world (in English, then in many languages)- with appropriate (brief or thougher) introduction of individual sites- with appropriate selection of (useful and important) sites- for various people (unfamiliar, beginners, users, and experts in TRIZ)- in the field of TRIZ and relevant methodologies- as reliable sources of information (on theories, applications, activities)
・ To keep the Catalogs up-to-date- accepting new and revised information regularly- revising all the Catalogs every two years

Bottom-up
Strategy

・ For promoting TRIZ and relevant methodologies further in the world
・ By voluntary collaboration of many TRIZ colleagues in the world

[1C] Three Basic Requirements for Any Catalog from Users(Cf. 'Catalogs of Good Restaurants', 'Catalogs of Sight-seeing Places', etc.)
Req. 1: Collect good items (i.e., websites in our case) widely,
select them with evaluation, andshow them in categories.
Req. 2: Individual items should be introduced
in a proper/fair manner briefly or closely
so as to guide the readers/users to the items.
Req. 3: It should be easy for users to find one/many items
which match their current interest/needs
inside the Catalog.
We are making efforts for our World WTSP Catalogs to fulfil theserequirements as much as possible.

[1D] Evaluation Criteria of Websites in the WTSP Catalogs
Our Criteria of Site Evaluation(recognizing diversity, we use multiple criteria)
Quality (reliable, correct, novel, original, comprehensive, up-to-date, ...)
Attractiveness (interesting, easy-to-understand, illustrative, ...)
Usefulness (resourceful, reference, handy, practical, ...)
Accessibility (open access, free/low charge, used by many, ...)
Scope (scope of the theme/field, scope of activities, ...)

Symbol marks for showing the evaluation
◎
○
□
△
－

Most important (about top 30) in World Catalogs
Important(about top 100) in World Catalogs
Worthyin World Catalogs,
Worthyin Country Catalogs,
Insignificant/irrelevant.

We should evaluate every site even tentatively at the early stage,
and refine the evaluation later through public viewing.

[２] Outputs: World WTSP Catalogs (Beta Edition, Oct. 2010)[2A] Japan Part of World WTSP Catalogs
Japan TRIZ Sites(Jul. 2019, Toru Nakagawa)Japan Around-TRIZ Sites◎ TRIZ Home Page in Japan (ToruNakagawa)○ Idea Marathon Institute (Takeo Higuchi)○ Japan TRIZ Society (NPO)□ Daiichi Kousha (Akihiro Katahira)○ IDEA Corp. (Mamoru Zenko)○ MOST LLC (Kazuya Yamaguchi)○ Ideation Japan Ltd. (Teruyuki
Kamimura)○ TRIZ Study (Shinsuke Kurosawa)○ Monodukuri.com (Osamu
Kumasaka)□ (Former) Japan TRIZ CB□ Cybernet System Co., Ltd.
□ Pro-Engineers (Shigeru Kasuya)□ Idea Plant (Rikie Ishii)□ MEMODAS (Kimihiko Hasegawa)△ 45 Other sites□ J-STAGE (JST)□ Netman (Ken-ichi Nagaya)□ JST (Japan Science and Technology Agency)□ NEDO (New Energy and Industrial Technology
Development Organization)□ Japan Creativity Society□ JUSE (Union of Japanese Scientists & Engineers)□ JSQC (Japanese Society for Quality Control)□ SJVE (Society of Japan Value Engineering)□ JIII (Japan Institute of Invention and Innovation)□ JAIST (Japan Advanced Institute of Science & Tech.)□ i.school, The University of Tokyo□ Keio SDM, Keio University Graduate School△

20 Other sites

[２B] World WTSP Catalogs(Preliminary Edition, Oct. 2019;
Beta Edition, Oct. 2020. Toru Nakagawa)

Code Catalog name◎ Sites○ Sites（□
Sites）

Type of
Catalog *(A1)

World TRIZ Sites Top Catalog
(◎）

◎ 23

--

--

Index / Print(A2)

World TRIZ Sites Basic
Catalog (◎○）

◎ 23

○ 39

--

Index / Print(B1)

World Around-TRIZ Sites Top
Catalog (◎）

◎ 33

--

--

Index / Print(B2)

World Around-TRIZ Sites
Basic Catalog (◎○）

◎ 33

○ 127

（□ 19)

Index / Print• Indextype

Description of individual sites are kept in the original site description files
and are accessed interactively from (various) Indexes.

* Print
type

Print type Catalogs are PDF files which may be downloaded by the user
for using interactively in PC or for printing as a Catalog booklet where thedescription of individual sites are already included in the PDF file.

[2C] World TRIZ Sites Catalog
OTSM (Nikolai
Khomenko)
Methodologist◎ 23 Most Important Sites(Jun. 2020. Toru Nakagawa)

The official foundationof G.S. Altshuller

Institute of
Innovative Design

IdeationInternational, Inc.

Systematic
Innovation Inc.

Academy ofInstrumental
Modern TRIZ

GEN TRIZAULIVE &Innovation Logic(Michael Orloff)

TRIZ Master
Igor Vikentjev
Education for a
New EraTRIZ-Art school"TRIZ-CREATIVITY"(Roman Florescu )ICG Training &Consulting
National
Engineering
ResearchCenter forTechnologicalInnovation
Method andtool(China)TRIZ Power
Tools
TRIZ Journal

TRIZ Home
Page in Japan
Wikipedia

MATRIZ (TheInternational TRIZ
Association)
Altshuller
Institute for
TRIZ Studies
ETRIA(European TRIZ
Association)
TRIZ Summit /TDS
MyTRIZ(Malaysia TRIZ
Innovation
Association)

Note: Based on the manuscripts from only 4 countries (Japan, Malaysia, China, Russian region) and2 cases of Internet surveys (USA, World). Important sites from various countries are missing.

[2D] Building the WTSP Catalogs of Around-TRIZ Sites (2nd Pillar)
Aims: To cover the relevant areas widely
where TRIZ users want to/should refer.
People in such relevant areas will also use the WTSP
Catalogs and will get interested in and familiar with TRIZ.
We also hope integral use of methods of different origins.
There seems no common word to express such a wide area.
We call it 'Around-TRIZ' temporarily, but it may be better called 'Creative
Problem Solving Methodologies'.
Separating the two Catalogs, allowing some duplications, is practical for users.
We made 5 cases of Internet surveys with the keywords (simplified here).
Creative Think Method ; Problem Solve ; Innovation ;Quality/Value/Cost/Productivity Management ； Patent/IP
We detected about 1000 websites in total.
Visiting the sites one by one, we found their site name, site domain URL.
Reading About Us and other main pages, we described the site introductions(about 5 - 15 lines).
Top-down
All the sites are evaluated tentatively
Approach
into 5 grades (◎○□△ー）[２E] World Around-TRIZ Sites Catalog ◎ 33 Most Important sites(Beta Edition, Jun. 2020, Toru Nakagawa)( Specific methodologies around TRIZ )12Manage
PMI (ProjectManagement
Institute)

Project Smart

ASQ (American
Society of
Quality)

iSixSigma
ipHandbook

Value BasedManagement.net The official
foundation ofFree Management G.S. Altshuller
Library
IdeationInternational
CFI (Corporate
Finance Institute)

ICG Training& Consulting
GEN TRIZ

Stanfordd.school( General sites )ISO (International

Organization forStandardization)

TED (Ideas

Worth Spreading)

HarvardBusiness Review ASME (TheASA (AmericanedX

Springer

Systematic
Innovation Inc
AULIVE
TRIZ Power
Tools( TRIZ sites )American Societyof MechanicalEngineers)

ScientificAffiliation)

Science Direct
TRIZ Journal
TRIZ Home Page
in JapanNational Engineering
Research Center
for TechnologicalInnovation Method
and tool (China)

Selected from about 1000 sites (5 cases of intensive Internet surveys) andResearch Gate
AmazonWikipedia
YouTubeSlide Share
LinkedIn

Annotated individually in free-format of 5-15 lines. (Better than World TRIZ Sites Catalogs.)

[2F] Structure of the World WTSP Catalogs (Users' View)
Beta Edition (Jun. 2020)

World WTSP Catalogs Top page

Various types of Indexes/Catalogs

Source Data Catalogs
Variouscountries
IndexXX......

Integrated World
Indexessurveys for
TRIZ Sites Around-TRIZ
Sites(A) World
TRIZ
IndexIndexIndexes
TN2a
TN3b

......

......

......

(B) World (AP) World
Around-TRIZ TRIZ
Indexes...... Catalogs

Descriptions of sites
Sites-XX......

Sites-TN2a......

Sites-TN3b......

......

Integrated World
Catalogs for Print......

(BP) World
Around-TRIZ
Catalogs(Index)(Index)(Sites)(Sites)......

......

Download in PDF,
Print and Use on your PC

[３] Development of WTSP Catalogs： Situations, Processes, Difficulties,
and Strategy[3A] History and current situations of the SWTSP activities

2017 Dec. Started the WTSP Project. Volunteer based, with many supporters.
2018 Apr. Pilot project. Completed the Japan WTSP Catalog.
Jun. 'Appeal for Building the World WTSP Catalogs' by the six Global Co-editors.
Oct. Presentation at ETRIA TFC2018. About 80 Members/Members-to-be(from 30 countries).
2019 Mar. Very little activities in individual countries.
Started top-down Internet surveys and development of WTSP Catalog system.
Oct. Preliminary Edition of World WTSP Catalogs. Presentation at ETRIA TFC2019.
2020 Jun. Very little activities in individual countries. Brushed up into Beta Edition.
Oct. Presented at 5 conferences Online. Russia, USA, Europe (Romania). Taiwan,
Japan (Japan Creativity Society).
2021. Apr. Very little activities in individual countries. Restarted top-down Internet surveys.

WTSP information (e.g., aims, methods, outputs, strategies, etc. of WTSP Catalogs)
has been posted in "TRIZ Home Page in Japan", and regularly sent to about 200
TRIZ leaders in the world.
We have many supporters, but only several persons actually working;no WTSP Teams and very little activities in individual countries.

[3B] Difficulties in the WTSP Project, and our Strategies for future
Many people support the Aims, but very few of them actually work.
"Talented and active people are always too busy."==> The whole project is divided into many smaller tasks, easy to handle in parallel.
"The vision to the World WTSP Catalogs is so big that it seems unachievable."==> We have already built and publicized the Beta Edition; we should now enhanceand refine it.
"It is not easy to list up TRIZ-related sites in our country."==> You should just list up what you would recommend, and add/enhance the list
with your colleague, and then supplement the list by use of Internet surveys.
"It is not easy for a surveyor to write introductions to various Web sites."==> Surveyors may write just briefly, and ask the site owners to write close
introductions to their own site.
"I don't see the merits of writing introductions to my own site for WTSP Catalogs."==> Many users and experts in the world will read/use the WTSP Catalogs.
in near future.
"In our country, nobody is going to organize/coordinate a Team for building ourCountry WTSP Catalogs."==> You should ask your TRIZ leaders, or try to do in a group, or become a Leader!
==> Showing practical guidelines, we should encourage pioneers andleaders to come out for working Together ! Connected !!

[4e] Standard Form of Site Description to be filled by the Site Owner
Ex: Team: JP, Site Code: JP-10, Written by Kazuya Yamaguchi
Site Name **Ex. MOST LLC (Kazuya Yamaguchi)

Site domain URL** Ex. http://www7b.biglobe.ne.jp/~most/ (Japanese)
Site Location **Ex. Japan
Site Language **Ex.

Roles of Site **Ex. (e4) Consultants, (a1) Dedicated for information sending

Evaluation **Single-line
Description *Ex. ○ Important （about top 100) in the World Catalogs （5 grades: ◎○□△－）
Ex. Trace records in consulting in the whole engineering fields, by use of QFD-TRIZTaguchi Method.
Ex. (c) Solution generation phase: (c1) Idea generation, (c2) Solution building,(c3) Solution evaluation and selection
Ex. (c) Engineering: all the subfields of Engineering (c1) through (c9)Ex. (b) Needs and problem finding: (b2) Quality Function Deployment (QFD),(g) Idea generation tools: (g1) Use of typical patterns of idea generation,(h) Solution building methods: (h1) Design methods,(j) Solution implementation methods: (j3) Manufacturing, mass production,
Ex MOST LLC has obtained from many companies/laboratories, who used tohave serious difficulties, the reputations that they were navigated well towonderful solutions through consulting. ..
(Free format, in 5 - 10 lines)

Application phase *Application Fields *Methods *Description ofIntroduction *jp

Further Detailed
Information(Optional) (Separate HTML file, Free format, 2-5 (or 10) pages in A4)
Ex. SiteIntro-JP-10-MOST.html (Written by Kazuya Yamaguchi)

Note of description

Ex. Written by Kazuya Yamaguchi (Site Owner), Aug. 31, 2020** Mandatory, * Desirable;

#
#
#
#
#
#
#

#: Use codes for categorizations (See detail in the WTSP website).

[3D] Optional: Close Introduction by the Site Owner
Free format in 2 - 5 pages (or more) in A4, a separate file.
Choose some style suitable for the site depending on its nature.
Ex. "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" (Toru Nakagawa)(16 pages in A4)(1) Features: History, Editor, Purpose,
Fields/types/scopes of articles,
Special features (Parallel in Japanese andin English, Methods for accessing articles)(2) Selected Articles (Brief explanation of selected 160 articles)(a) Introducing TRIZ （1997～2001）(b) Introducing USIT (Unified Structured Inventive Thinking) （1998 - 2001)(c) Extending USIT （USIT Operator System） (2002 - 2003）(d) Absorbing Modernized TRIZ （At International conferences, etc.)（2001 - 2004）(e) 'Six-Box Scheme: A new paradigm of creative problem solving' (2003 - 2006)(f) Activities of Japan TRIZ Society and Japan TRIZ Symposia (2005 - 2008)(g) Education with TRIZ/USIT at Osaka Gakuin Univ. (2000 - 2012)(h) Activities of Japan TRIZ Society and international communications (2009 - 2012)(i) "General Methodology of Creative Problem Solving" with Six-Box Scheme (2012-2016)(j) Various topics of communications/issues/interests in wider scopes (2011 - 2019(k) 'Liberty vs Love': the Principal Contradiction of Human Culture (2015 - 2019)(l) World Catalogs of TRIZ-related Sites (WTSP Project) (Dec, 2017 - present)

[3E] Preparing Manuscripts of WTSP Catalogs in Each Country
Manuscripts to beprepared by WTSP Teams(b) Table of sites (.xlsx)
Basic data for indexing(a) Descriptions of sites (.docx)

Convert into HTMLCountry WTSP Catalog(d) Index page (.html)(c) Site description page (.html)

Submit to the
WTSP Project Leader
World WTSP Catalogs

[3F] Variations of Websites: Categorized with 'Roles of sites'◎、○

Roles of site

typical subcategories(a) Information
sending sites(b) Promotororganizations(a1) Dedicated for information sending,(a2) Public Web sites,

9,4(b1) Dedicated associations, (b2) Dedicated(academic) societies, (b3) International conferences,5,4(c) Public(c1) International organizations, (c2) Nationalorganizations

1,1(d) Academia,(d1) Universities, (d4) Academic societies (in generalfields),0,0(e) Developerorganizations(e1) Method developers, (e2) Software/tool developers,(e4) Consultants, (e5) Training organizations,

7,15(f) Publishingorganizations(f1) Journals, (f2) Publishers, (f3) Repository,(f4) Book sellers,

0,6(g) Information
sharing,(g1) Mass media, (g2) Technology news,(g3) Knowledge sharing, (g4) Social networks,

1,7(h) Userorganizations(h1) Industrial organizations, (h2) Companies,(h3) Educational organizations, (h5) User groups,

0,2(i) Personal(i1) Individual researchers,(i3) Personal Web sites, (i4) Personal Blog sites, ...

0,0organizations

TRIZ Sites

[4] Concluding Remarks[4A] User's Evaluation(Dr. Bill Fowlkes, Oct. 2019)

To the World TRIZ-related Sites Project (WTSP) Global Co-editors:
I welcome the work you are doing to collect, organize, describe and link tothe many internet sites that are of interest to students and practitioners ofinnovative methods such as TRIZ.
I have created a new bookmark folder with links to the WTSP Catalogs of
TRIZ sites and the WTSP Catalogs of AROUND-TRIZ sites, and I expectthat I will be referring to them frequently.
The aggregation of these sites is much better than trying to find the datawith a Google search, because the information is curated and brief
descriptions are provided.
I encourage TRIZ providers and other content creators working in TRIZ
related fields to participate in this project and make the World TRIZrelated Sites Project the best it can possibly be.
Dr. William Y. Fowlkes
VP, Analytics and Workflow Solutions| IP.com

Oct. 30, 2019

[4B] TRIZ Spirits in the WTSP Project(1) Have a vision, overcome difficulties one by one, and achieve the goal.
(2) Divide the tasks appropriately and divide the systems appropriately as well,build the overall system so as to function effectively, and make the workby all the people cooperating together fruitful(3) Respect the diversity of languages, histories, cultures, and activities in individual
countries, and cooperate inside as well as among the countries for building
World WTSP Catalogs.
(4) Build the Catalogs of Websites in the whole world in the areas of TRIZ andrelated methodologies, connect the activities, accumulated knowledge,
and results by the huge number of people working in such areas, andform a basis for developing and proliferating such methodologies incooperative ways.
(5) Promote the project by relying on the passion of those people in the world
who are inspired with TRIZ and holding TRIZ as an important guiding principle.

[4C] Some more final steps to the Goal of WTSP
Beta Edition of World WTSP Catalogs demonstrates our Goal.
It can be enhanced step by step;Now, you can contribute to the WTSP project easily:
If you are a site owner: Write an introduction to your own site.
If you are a user:
Make a list of sites you like/recommend.
If you are a TRIZ leader: Take the leadership of coordinating your people.
Then you all form a WTSP Team with a voluntary Team Leader
and work together along the practice guide.
In a year, the Catalogs will get many users, from beginners to experts.
All your efforts are helpful for many people and fruitful for yourselves.

Let's work Together ! Connected !!

Thank you for your attention.
Toru Nakagawa (Osaka Gakuin University, Professor Emeritus)
nakagawa@ogu.ac.jp

Editor of "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" (in Japanese and in English)
http://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/nakagawa/TRIZ/eTRIZ/World TRIZ-related Sites Project (WTSP) Project Leader

Let's work Together ! Connected !!