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USIT Manual

USIT (Unified Structured Inventive Thinking):
A Concise Process of Creative Problem Solving in the 'Six-Box Scheme'

Toru Nakagawa (Osaka Gakuin University, Professor Emeritus)

First Edition (in Japanese, Feb. 9, 2014)
2nd Edition (in Japanese, May 21, 2015) (in English, Jun. 14, 2015)

Posted: Jun. 26,  2015.

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Editor's Note (Toru Nakagawa, Jun. 20, 2015)

I have just prepared the 2nd Edition of the USIT Manual in English. USIT Manual was first written in Feb. 2014 in Japanese, and was revised and extended in May 2015 in the form of 2nd Edition in Japanese, and is now translated into English.  The concepts and detailed processes of USIT are described in the USIT Manual along the steps in USIT.

USIT ('Unified Structured Inventive Thinking') was originally developed by Dr. Ed Sickafus in 1995.  And it has been further extended by Toru Nakagawa et al. in Japan since 1999. We integrated TRIZ and USIT into USIT, and recognized the 'Six-Box Scheme' (of USIT) as a New Paradigm of Creative Problem Solving in general; and hence made USIT a much more general and universal method.

'The General Methodology of Creative Problem Solving (CrePS)' is characterized by its basic paradigm of 'Six-Box Scheme'.  With the paradigm, we have been able to integrate, reorganize, and unify a large variety of methods including TRIZ and USIT. 

USIT in the current stage is regarded as a concise, consistent, unified, whole process for performing the creative problem solving in the 'Six-Box Scheme'. 

I am now posting the USIT Manual in the form of HTML + images for the sake of easier access and linking convenience, and also in PDF for the purpose of clarity. 

 

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USIT Case Studies (Index)

USIT Case Studies (Parent page) USIT References USIT Documents (Parent page)(Japanese) Japanese page

 


 USIT Manual  

USIT (Unified Structured Inventive Thinking):
A Concise Process of Creative Problem Solving in the 'Six-Box Scheme'

USIT Manual: Title

Preface:
           Purposes, Targets, and Means

Introduction:
          Purposes to learn and apply USIT;   What is USIT?;
          Characteristic features of USIT;   How to use USIT

Overall View of the USIT Process:
          'Six-Box Scheme'; Description of the 'Six-Box Scheme'

Execution steps of the USIT process:

Step 1: Define the Problem:
     (1) Preparation: Forming the USIT project;
      (2) Clarify the problem situations and focus the scope

Step 2: Analyze the Problem

  (A) Understand the present system:
      (1) Understand the space characteristics;
      (2) Understand the time characteristics;
      (3) Understand the attributes;
      (4) Understand the functional relationships

 (B) Make an image of the ideal system :
      (1) Particles method (part 1 and part 2)

Step 3: Generate ideas:
     (1) Write down the ideas stimulated by the analyses;
     (2) Extend ideas with USIT operators

Step 4: Construct solutions:
     (1) Evaluate and select ideas;
     (2) Construct the conceptual solutions;
     (3) Report the results of the USIT project

Step 5: Implement the solutions: (Real activities in the 'Real World') ;

Summary of the case study

USIT Case Studies: About the Collection of USIT Case Studies

 

Appendix 1. The System of USIT Operators

Appendix 2. A Collection of USIT Case Studies


 

 USIT Manual  

USIT (Unified Structured Inventive Thinking):
A Concise Process of Creative Problem Solving in the 'Six-Box Scheme'

HTML + Images Page  (Posted: Jun. 26,  2015)

 

 

Preface:

Purposes, Targets, and Means

 

Table of Contents:

 

Introduction:

Purposes to learn and apply USIT;  
What is USIT?;
Characteristic features of USIT;   
How to use USIT

 

Overall View of the USIT Process:

'Six-Box Scheme';
Description of the 'Six-Box Scheme'

 

Execution steps of the USIT process:

 

Step 1: Define the Problem:

(1) Preparation: Forming the USIT project;
(2) Clarify the problem situations and focus the scope

 

Step 2: Analyze the Problem

  (A) Understand the present system:

(1) Understand the space characteristics;
(2) Understand the time characteristics;
(3) Understand the attributes;
(4) Understand the functional relationships

 

 

 

(B) Make an image of the ideal system :

(1) Particles method (part 1 and part 2)

 

 

Step 3: Generate ideas:

(1) Write down the ideas stimulated by the analyses;
(2) Extend ideas with USIT operators

 

 

Step 4: Construct solutions:

(1) Evaluate and select ideas;
(2) Construct the conceptual solutions;
(3) Report the results of the USIT project

 

 

Step 5: Implement the solutions: (Real activities in the 'Real World') ;

 

Summary of the case study

 

USIT Case Studies: About the Collection of USIT Case Studies

 

 

 

 

 

 

Appendix 1. The System of USIT Operators              ==> See: Index ;   Main page

Appendix 2. A Collection of USIT Case Studies         ==> See: Index ;   Main page

 


  USIT Manual:   English edition:  HTML page  (The present page),     PDF  

                             Japanese edition:  HTML page    ,    PDF 

 

 

Top of the USIT Manual Preface Introduction Step 1. Problem definition Step 2A. Analysis of the present system Step 2B. Analysis of the ideal system Step 3. Idea generation Step4. Solution construction Step 5. Solution implementation Overview of Case Study Collection of USIT Cas Studies

 


 

  USIT Documents   

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USIT Documents (Index) page top USIT Documents  
USIT Manual Manual (index) USIT Manual USIT Manual in PDF
USIT Operators Operators (index) USIT Opertors (Full version)

USIT Operators (Simple version / Extended version)

Cross reference: TRIZ => USIT
(parent page)

USIT Case Studies Case Studies (index) A Collection of USIT Case Studies (parent page)

Individual Case Study pages in HTML (ex. Case 1: ...)

USIT References References (index)  --  

 

Top of this page USIT Documents (Parent page) USIT Manual (Table of Contents) USIT Manual (HTML) USIT Operator System (Index) USIT Operator System (Full version) From TRIZ Tools to USIT Operators (Index)

USIT Case Studies (Index)

USIT Case Studies (Parent page) USIT References USIT Documents (Parent page)(Japanese) Japanese page

 

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Last updated on Jun. 26, 2015.     Access point:  Editor: nakagawa@ogu.ac.jp