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(B6) News 2022 of WTSP (World TRIZ-related Sites Project)

Editor:  Toru Nakagawa (WTSP Project Leader, Osaka Gakuin Univ.), 
Latest Update:  Jan. 17, 2023

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Posted:  Jan. 24, 2022
Updated: Mar. 2; Apr. 1; Apr. 11; Apr. 27; May 9; May 18; Jun. 3; Aug. 17; Sept. 30; Oct. 3; Dec. 16; Dec. 29, 2022;
Jan. 17, 2023

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Editor's Note (Toru Nakagawa, Jan. 24, 2022)

This page intends to show up-to-date News about the WTSP Project in brief summary, for the year 2022.  Latest News is shown at the top. Detail information of the News will be posted in separate pages.  


  (B6) WTSP News 2022:  activities, invitations, outputs, etc.  (Latest News at the top)

 WTSP Forum:  Communication Forum for the WTSP Project: Among WTSP Teams, Members, Readers, etc. together with WTSP Leader and Global Co-editors. (Aug. - Dec., 2022) (Editor: Toru Nakagawa)   (Jan. 17, 2023)

A large number of communications during Oct. to Dec. 2022 are posted.  They serve as records of WTSP Activities, for the purpose of better understading of the World WTSP Catalogs and the processes for building them, by reading examples made by many other Teams/Site-owners/etc. Please read such communications as the background of the Articles/Presentations/etc. which are posted publicly in the WTSP News and WTSP Websites.  Especially, recent messages from Project Leader to WTSP Country Teams of Italy, France, Taiwan, and Korea may be good instructions to many Teams of other countries.

Full Site Introduction: DE-03 Modern TRIZ Academy Site (Michael Orloff, Germany)   (Dec. 29, 2022)

The website, DE-03 ◎ Modern TRIZ Academy, is now fully introduced by the site owner, Michael Orloff.  In the Germany Part of  the World WTSP Catalogs, the site is described in (b) WTSP Standard Form (1 page in A4)  and also in (c) Close Introduction in a free format (28 pages in A4, in PDF) .  The full introduction of the website is also posted as an independent HTML web page in the e-Papers section of "TRIZ Home Page in Japan".  Roles of the site are: (a1) Dedicated for information sending, (e1) Method developers, (e4) Consultants, (e5) Training organizations,
Michael Orloff describes his personal history of encountering TRIZ in 1963 at the age of 16, participating Invention Machine project, starting a consuting firm in Germany, establishing his own way of simplified/modernized TRIZ, working as consultants/trainers in Korea, China, Egypt, etc., and establishing training courses (especially useful for e-learning and self-training, recently), etc.  In his "Essay", he describes the concepts of his Modern TRIZ with a case study in a clear, structured format.  A full set of textbooks/handbooks of his training course are impressive; his basic textbook is published in 12 different languages.  --- The full introduction of his site is quite new and amasing to me even after 5 years of close collaboration with the author in the World WTSP Project. I recommend you his Full Site Inroduction, "Essay" .

 WTSP Catalogs :   Germany Part of the World WTSP Catalogs Has Been Built (Toru Nakagawa) (Dec. 16, 2022)

Manuscript of the Germany WTSP Catalogs has been built and incorporated as the Germany Part of the World WTSP Catalogs.  The raw data of the 4th-round Internet survey of TRIZ Sites located in Germany are used to visit the 68 websites one by one to write brief introductions.  We have found 4 ◎, 4 ○, 8 □, and 3 △ TRIZ Sites, and 5 ○, 8 □, and 4 △ Around-TRIZ Sites from this survey.  The data already posted in the WTSP Catalogs (i.e., 2nd-round survey (TN2A, TN2F) for TRIZ sites and 3rd-round survey (TN3A2, TN3B, TN3C, TN3D, and TN3E) for Around-TRIZ sites) are also used to pick up the Germany sites. 

 Thus the Germany WTSP Catalogs contain 3 ◎, 6 ○, 7 □, and 3 △ TRIZ Sites and 2 ◎, 7 ○, 18 □, and 6△ Around-TRIZ Sites.  Index Table of all these sites and Site descriptions of them are incorporated as the Germany Part of the World WTSP Catalogs (even though the Index parts of the World Catalogs are not updated yet). 
We can learn a lot from all these websites. Especially the ◎ websites are: Modern TRIZ Academy, ETRIA, TriS Europe for TRIZ; and Research Gate, LinkedIn for Around-TRIZ.   There may be many good websites missing in the list.  We wish TRIZ colleagues in Germany to revise and enhance the list of sites and the descriptions of individual sites. 

 


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--- Several more countries active in TRIZ are left to have similar Country Catalogs; such as France, Italy, Taiwan, South Korea, ... In such countries, many websites are written in their non-English languages, and hence it will be difficult for a foreigner like me to build WTSP Catalogs of such countries, even with the help of translation software. Visiting and writing introductory notes of individual sites (in English) are the most basic jobs expected for TRIZ colleagues in each country; I will be ready to collaborate with you to brush your manuscripts up into Country WTSP Catalogs.

 WTSP Forum:  Communications with WTSP Members and Readers: 2022 (Editor: Toru Nakagawa)   (Oct. 3, 2022)

This page is a Communication Forum for the WTSP Project among WTSP Teams, Members, Readers, etc. together with WTSP Leader and Global Co-editors. 
Initiation of WTSP Team work in Korea (TN <=> Min-Gyu Lee, Aug.-Sept. 2022)
Initial stage of WTSP work in France (TN <=> Denis Cavallucci, Aug.-Sept. 2022).

 WTSP Paper (ETRIA):  WTSP Report (5) Catalogs of TRIZ and Around-TRIZ Sites in the World: We Can Learn Full Scope of TRIZ-related Works in the World (Toru Nakagawa, Darrell Mann, Michaael Orloff, Simon Dewulf, Simon Litvin, Valeri Souchkov)  (Sept. 30, 2022)

This paper was presented at ETRIA TFC2022 (held at Warsaw Tech. Univ. and Online, on Sept. 27-29).  The paper (15 pages) is published in the Proceeding (by Springer) and accessible through https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17288-5_37 .  We post here the presentation slides (13 slides, in HTML and in PDF ) and the presentation video (in MP4, 13 slides, 9m55s) .  In Japanese, this paper is just refered in the page of Presentation at Japan TRIZ Symposium 2022 .

This paper reports (1) The aims of WTSP Catalogs and Evaluation criteria of websites, (2) Ways of website description and Structure of the World WTSP Catalogs, (3) Current Outputs of World WTSP Catalogs (thorough survey results of Around-TRIZ sites, but insufficient outputs of TRIZ sites due to missing of manuscripts from many countries active in TRIZ), and (4) Concluding remarks (especially mentioning the need of new website representative in TRIZ).  Discussions on reviewers' comments and questions are included in the paper.

 WTSP Paper (JTS):   WTSP World TRIZ Sites / Around-TRIZ Sites Catalogs (5) Useful & Attractive Information Source -- Use Actively and Improve Them Further (Toru Nakagawa, Darrell Mann, Michaael Orloff, SImon Dewulf, Simon Litvin, Valeri Souchkov) (Sept. 30, 2022)

We gave this presentation at Japan TRIZ Symposium 2022.  In the Japanese page, we post Abstract, Presentation slides (26 slides, in HTML  and in PDF ), and Presentation video (in MP4, 19 min).  In the English page , we post Abstract and Slides (26 slides, in PDF ).  These 26 slides in English cover some more than the 13 slides presented at ETRIA TFC2022.

Proposal of "SI-Review" Website:  Proposal of Establishing a New Website Representative in TRIZ and Related Methodologies in the World (Toru Nakagawa and WTSP Global Co-editors) (Aug. 24, Sept. 16; Oct. 14, 2022)

As a result of the WTSP Project for these 5 years, we have found: "In the TRIZ community there are a number of international associations/conferences and many good websites operated by individual consulting firms and academic groups, but there exists no 'representative' place where good TRIZ works are coming from various groups in the world to be published regularly." And having discussed the issue among the WTSP Global Co-editors, we have decided a Proposal: "Let's create a new website Representative in TRIZ and related methodologies, where excellent papers/articles on various approaches come together from various groups in the world to be published regularly."  This vision is achievable only by some solid international and interdesciplinary collaboration, but today there exist no common place to propose and discuss such an issue.  Thus Toru Nakagawa and WTSP Global Co-editors has determined to promote it on a voluntary basis in the initial stage.  We temporarily name the expected new site as "Systematic Innovation Review (or SI-Review, in short)" (Website).  We naturally expect the SI-Review Project is much larger and difficult than WTSP. So we started its website, inside this "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" as a subsite of WTSP: https://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/nakagawa/TRIZ/eTRIZ/eWTSP/eSIReview/ .  There we now have Index page, Proposal page, Slides & Introduction page, Discussion page, etc.  All the information related to the SI-Review Proposal/Project will be posted there. -- In this WTSP site, let's do our best to build and improve the World WTSP Catalogs further.  -- We have the common slogan:  Let's work Together ! Connected !!

 WTSP Catalogs :   World WTSP Catalogs of (C) Around-TRIZ Sites Are Enhanced (Toru Nakagawa) (Aug. 17, 2022)

Revision and enhancement of the (C) WTSP World Catalogs of Around-TRIZ sites have been completed.  With the re-investigation of the Internet surveys TN3A2, TN3B, TN3C, TN3D, and TN3E, the Indexes (C1)(C2) and the Catalogs for Print (C1P)(C2P) are fully revised.  And the (C3) World Around-TRIZ Extended Index has been newly built which may access to the site descriptions in their original survey files of the TN3 series.   See the table below.

(Main) Roles of Sites

Number of sites (Aug. 17, 2022)

in (C2)
(◎, ○)

in (C3)
(□)

◎ Most important

○ 
Improtant

□ 
worthy

Index part

Index part

(a) Information sending sites

10

20

12

(b)  Promotor organizations

3

8

6

(c) Public organizations

3

10

24

(d)  Academia

2

17

33

(e) Developer organizations

5

37

84

-- (e5)  Training organizations 

0

9

19

(f) Publisshing organizations

5

17

13

(g)  Information sharing

5

12

21

(h)  User organizations

0

12

27

(i)  Personal

0

0

5

 (Total number of sites)

33

142

244

   

 WTSP Catalogs :   Enhancing the World WTSP Catalogs of (C) Around-TRIZ Sites (Toru Nakagawa) (Apr. 1; Apr. 11; Apr. 27; May 9; May 18; Jun. 3, 2022)

We wish to make the World WTSP Catalogs really Useful and Attractive for learning different and abundant approaches to Creative Problem Solving and Innovation in the world.  We have 3 main routes for such cooperative work: (1) Building Counntry WTSP Catalogs (of TRIZ sites at first) in each country, (2) Getting Introductions of individual sites written by the site owners themselves (in the Standard Form and optional closer description), and (3) Improving the survey results of Around-TRIZ websites.  Whenever such manuscripts are submitted, I am ready to post them one by one in this WTSP website.  I am going to work along Route 3 for myself, and post the results step by step in this page. 

 Revised the Survey TN3A2 (Creative Think Method) of Around-TRIZ Sites  (Toru Nakagawa) (Apr. 1, 2022)

Visiting all the sites in TN3A2 again, their site introductions are enhanced (especially for □ sites).  Both the Index page ( Index-TN3A2.html) and Site Description page ( Sites-TN3A2.html) are fully updated.  These updates are naturally reflected in the World WTSP Catalogs (except the Print-type Catalogs).  The following 10 sites are newly evaluated at the ○ level:  TN3A2-20 Peter Fisk, TN3A2-21 The Creativity Post, TN3A2-22 Mind Tools,  TN3A2-36 Simplicable (by John Spacey),  TN3A2-42 IQ Matrix (by Adam Sicinski),  TN3A2-71 Fairfax County Public Schools,  TN3A2-61 Fast Company, TN3A2-84, NCBI (National Center for Biology Information),  TN3A2-85 ToolsHero. 

 Revised the Survey TN3B (Creative Problem Solve) of Around-TRIZ Sites  (Toru Nakagawa) (Apr. 11, 2022)

Visiting all the sites in TN3B again, their site introductions are enhanced (especially for □ sites).  Both the Index page ( Index-TN3B.html) and Site Description page ( Sites-TN3B.html) are fully updated.  These updates are naturally reflected in the World WTSP Catalogs (except the Print-type Catalogs).  The following 9 sites are newly evaluated at the ○ level: TN3B-43 Frontiers,  TN3B-52 ERIC (Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education),  TN3B-65 Britannica,  TN3B-71 NCTL (National Center for Technological Literacy) : EiE (Engineering is Elementary),  TN3B-79 ITHAKA : JSTOR, TN3B-88 Study.com,  TN3B-90 Creative Education Foundation,  TN3B-37 Lucid chart,  TN3B-83 World Scientific - Connecting Great Minds. 

 Revised the Survey TN3C (Innovation) of Around-TRIZ Sites  (Toru Nakagawa) (Apr. 27, 2022)

Visiting all the sites in TN3C again, their site introductions are enhanced (especially for □ sites).  Both the Index page ( Index-TN3C.html) and Site Description page ( Sites-TN3C.html) are fully updated. These updates are naturally reflected in the Site descriptions of the World WTSP Catalogs (except the Print-type Catalogs), but not yet in the Index pages of the World WTSP Catalogs. The following 2 sites are newly evaluated at the ○ level: TN3C-36 Study Portals, TN3C-71 SRI International . 

Revised the Survey TN3D (Quality) of Around-TRIZ Sites  (Toru Nakagawa) (May 9, 2022)

Visiting all the sites in TN3D again, their site introductions are enhanced (especially for □ sites).  Both the Index page ( Index-TN3D.html) and Site Description page ( Sites-TN3D.html) are fully updated. These updates are naturally reflected in the Site descriptions of the World WTSP Catalogs (except the Print-type Catalogs), but not yet in the Index pages of the World WTSP Catalogs.  The following 3 sites are newly evaluated at the ○ level:  TN3D-55 Edraw, TN3D-97 Dassault Systems: 3DS, TN3D-122 Scrum Guides.

Revised the Survey TN3E (Patent) of Around-TRIZ Sites  (Toru Nakagawa) (May 18, 2022)

Visiting all the sites in TN3E again, their site introductions are enhanced (especially for □ sites).  Both the Index page ( Index-TN3E.html) and Site Description page ( Sites-TN3E.html) are fully updated. These updates are naturally reflected in the Site descriptions of the World WTSP Catalogs (except the Print-type Catalogs), but not yet in the Index pages of the World WTSP Catalogs.  The following 2 sites are newly evaluated at the ○ level:  TN3E-47 ○□←□ Udemy,  TN3E-55 ○□←□ Entrepreneur - Magazine.

 Updating the World Around-TRIZ Sites by the Integration of the Survey Results   (Jun. 3; Aug. 17, 2022)

By integrating the survey results described so far, the WTSP World Catalogs of Around-TRIZ Sites are revised.   Importantly, all the sites at the □ level (worthy in the World Catalog) are now shown in the (C3) WTSP World Around-TRIZ Sites Extended Catalog.

World Catalog

Contents

Index page

Sites Description

Latest Beta Editon

Revision

or ◎○ or ○□ □ or □△

(C1) World Around-TRIZ Top Catalog (◎)

34 ← 30

-

-

Separated

May 30, 2022

Jun. 3; Aug. 17, 2022

(C2) World Around-TRIZ Basic Catalog (◎○)

34 ← 30

142 ←143

-

Separated

May 30, 2022

Jun. 3; Aug. 17, 2022

(C3) World Around-TRIZ Extended Catalog (□)

-

-

244

Separated

-

Jun. 3; Aug. 17, 2022

The numbers of sites listed in the Catalogs are shown below after classifying with the grades and the roles of site. 

(Main) Roles of Sites

in (C2)

in (C3)

in (C2P)

◎ Most important

○ 
Improtant

Index part

□ World
worthy

Index part

Site description part

(a) Information sending sites

10 ← 8 20 ← 19 12

(b)  Promotor organizations

3 8 6

(c) Public organizations

3 10 24

(d)  Academia

2 17 ← 20 33

(e) Developer organizations

5 37 ← 36 84

-- (e5)  Training organizations 

0 9 19

(f) Publisshing organizations

5 ← 4 17 13

(g)  Information sharing

6 ← 5 12 21

(h)  User organizations

0 12 27

(i)  Personal

0 0 5
 (Total number of sites) 34 ← 30 142 ← 143   244    

 WTSP Catalogs :   UK Part of the World WTSP Catalogs Has Been Built as an Example of Country WTSP Catalogs (Toru Nakagawa) (Mar. 2, 2022)

Manuscript of the UK WTSP Catalogs has been built and incorporated as the UK Part of the World WTSP Catalogs.  The raw data of the 4th-round Internet survey of TRIZ Sites located in the United Kingdom are used to visit the 39 websites one by one to write brief introductions.  We have found 5 ◎, 1 ○, 8 □, and 1 △ TRIZ Sites, and 2 ◎, 3 ○, 6 □, and 3 △ Around-TRIZ Sites from this survey.  The data already posted in the WTSP Catalogs (i.e., 2nd-round survey (TN2A, TN2F) for TRIZ sites and 3rd-round survey (TN3A2, TN3B, TN3C, TN3D, and TN3E) for Around-TRIZ sites) are also used to pick up the UK sites.  Thus the UK WTSP Catalogs contain 6 ◎, 5 ○, 9 □, and 1 △ TRIZ Sites and 4 ◎, 13 ○, 31 □, and 3 △ Around-TRIZ Sites.  Index Table of all these sites and Site descriptions of them are incorporated as the UK Part of the World WTSP Catalogs (even though the Index part of the World Catalogs are not updated yet).  We wish TRIZ colleagues in UK to revise and enhance the list of sites and the descriptions of individual sites. 
We can learn a lot from all these websites. Especially the ◎ websites are: The TRIZ Journal, Systematic Innovation Inc., Oxford Creativity. CORE for TRIZ; and Project Smart, Managing Innovation (John Bessant), My Mooc, Science Direct for Around-TRIZ.  [There may be many good websites missing in the list.  I notice Bio-TRIZ site (◎) is a case of missing. ]

 WTSP Catalogs Introduction:   Introduction to World WTSP Catalogs of TRIZ Sites and Around-TRIZ Sites (Toru Nakagawa) (Jan. 24, 2022)

This is an Introduction for ordinary users without assuming any knowledge about WTSP or its Catalogs.  Originally written in 23 slides and posted in HTML and in PDF.  Here is its Abstract:

(1) Catalogs of TRIZ-related Websites in the World have been developed by a volunteer-based international project WTSP.
(2) The Catalogs are now available publicly without charge both for  interactive use at the WTSP site and for downloading, printing, and interactive use at user's PC.
(3) The Catalogs cover various websites in the fields of TRIZ (including modernized TRIZ) and around-TRIZ more widely (i.e., creative problem solving in general, including quality/value/project management, IP, etc.).
(4) Various websites dedicated for the roles of information sending, research, development, promotion, publishing, etc. of such TRIZ-related methodologies are collected.
(5) Websites are found more useful as units of information resources than (smaller) webpages, papers, patents, etc. and (larger) journals, conferences, books, etc., because they are kept updated for many years with unity/quality/scope of information by some group or organization, in openly accessible forms.
(6) Individual websites are introduced briefly by surveyors/recommenders, and in one-page standard form and (optionally) much longer by the website owners. 
(7) Websites are evaluated in respect to their quality/usefulness/attractiveness/ accessibility/scopes/etc. and shown in 5 grades (◎○□ for world level, △ for country level, and -).
(8) Current World WTSP Catalogs (Beta Edition)  list 23 ◎  and 39 ○ websites in TRIZ while 33 ◎  and 127 ○ websites around TRIZ. 
(9) We are working further to make our WTSP Catalogs more useful and attractive for users as well as professionals by voluntary cooperation of many colleagues in the world.
(10) Let's work Together ! Connected !!

You may use the Catalogs interactively at the WTSP website, or download the Catalogs for Print (in PDF) and print them or use them interactively on your own PC just as on the WTSP website.  You can operate the Catalogs easily, because the catalogs are simply tables of websites having hyperlinks to the description of those sites. 

 WTSP :  (A9) Introductions of the World WTSP Catalogs for Users (Jan. 24, 2022)

A new page has been started just under the WTSP Index page.  It is the entrance page for users to learn and enjoy using the World WTSP Catalogs.   See the Introduction (Jan. 24, 2022) 

 

Intorduction to WTSP Catalogs

World WTSP Catalogs  Top page

(A) World TRIZ Sites Catalogs

(A1) Index ◎

(A2) Index ◎〇

(A1P) Catalog for Print ◎

(A2P) Catalog for Print ◎〇

(C) World Around- TRIZ Sites Catalogs

(C1) Index ◎

(C2) Index ◎〇

(C3) Index □

(C1P) Catalog for Print ◎

(C2P) Catalog for Print ◎〇

 

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