WTSP: Preliminary Internet Searches of TRIZ-related Sites (2F) written in English in USA (Toru Nakagawa, Mar. 2019)

WTSP Working Material:
Preliminary Internet Searches of TRIZ-related Sites (2F) written in English in USA
Toru Nakagawa (OGU, Japan) Mar. 27, 2019
Posted: Mar. 31, 2019; Updated: Apr. 9, 2019

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Editor's Note (Toru Nakagawa, Mar. 30, 2019)

As explained in the Index page , the (2nd round) Preliminary Internet Searches have been carried out. The process of the Search and handling of the output results are explained generally in the Index page .

The present page shows the results of the survey for the TRIZ-related sites written in English and located in USA.
For building the WTSP Catalogs, USA is very important of course because of its active, advanced, and powerful TRIZ activities. Nevertheless, their various activities and various Web sites related to TRIZ are not well visible as a whole. And hence the present survey and WTSP Catalog of USA are much expected. The process of the search and handling the output data has been carried out along the general instruction .

91 sites were output by the search with the Yahoo.Japan search engine with the keyword of TRIZ. The sites are visited one by one quicky to get their basic information, and are evaluated tentatively in the 5 levels:

◎ : Most important in the World WTSP Catalog --- 6 sites
○ : Important in the World WTSP Catalog ------------ 11 sites
□ : Worthy in the World WTSP Catalog --------------- 27 sites
△ : Worthy in Country WTSP Catalogs ---------------- 24 sites
－ : Irrelevant/neglected in the WTSP Catalogs ------- 22 sites

The top 68 sites are listed here in HTML , in a rearranged order of their evaluation levels and site types.
Each site is shown with evaluation level, site name, URL of the site domain, and the number of hit pages in the search site.

For the ease of further work, the original search results is attached here in .docx file , where the original output of the 68 sites are shown together with the heading information shown in this HTML page.

Further work is necessary. Visit the sites again one by one, describe the introductions of the sites, evaluate the sites, include many more important sites, etc.
The present list, in its enhanced version, will be the core of the USA WTSP Catalog and also give much information to the World WTSP Catalog.

Note (Toru Nakagawa, Apr. 6, 2019): The Data Part is shown in a tabular form. By the ordinary 'Copy & Paste' operation of the whole table into an Excel file, you can get the Table of sites, in a form handy to edit and sort as you like. The data of sites in different pages (2A) to (2F) may be merged easily (with some ovbious care).

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Introduction of the survey

Results: List of 68 sites in English located in USA

.docx file

Preliminary Search (Sept. 2018) .docx files in USA: in English , in Ger/Fr/It/Sp , in Russian

Preliminary Inernet Search (2nd round)

Process of Survey

(2A) Sites in Eglish

(2B) Sites in Russian

(2C) Sites in German

(2D) Sites in French

(2E) Sites in Spanish/ Portuguese

(2F) Sites in English in USA

Preliminary Search in 33+ countries (Sept. 2018)

Japanese page

Preliminary Internet Searches of TRIZ-related Sites (2F) written in English and located in USA

Preliminary Search for TRIZ sites written in English and located in USA

   Mar. 27, 2019, Toru Nakagawa

Mar. 31, 2019 Simplified for posting in the Web Toru Nakagawa

Conditions of survey:

(a) Survey Keyword: TRIZ
(b) Language of the sites: English
(c) Location of the sites: USA
(d) Searcher's location：　USA
(e) Search engine: Yahoo.japan
(f) Option: Only one representative page is shown for a site, with URL for the TRIZ search inside the site
(g) Browser:   Firefox

Direct outputs of the survey:

91 sites are listed, with 2-3 lines per site. The outputs are copied into a Word file.
Underlined words have hyperlinks, which are active (at least in my environment)
Note: URL of option (f) is the hyperlink attached to : このサイト内で検索
        Or else with your search engine (like Google) you may survey again with the keywords: TRIZ site:[URL of the site domain]
          (for example: TRIZ site:https://www.trizjournal.com/

Further working process (already done):

Visit the representative page, and then the top page of the site, and several more pages of the site quickly.
Then click the URL of option (f) to see the result of Site search, and take a glance at the list of pages, and record the number of pages (which is shown at the top of the output of the site search).

Name of the site, URL of the site, and number of TRIZ pages in the site are recorded.
--- This record of each site title is put at the top of the survey result, with the style of Heading 2.

Then the sites are roughly/tentatively evaluated, with the evaluation symbols: ◎ ○ □ △ -
◎ : Most important in the World WTSP Catalog
○ : Important in the World WTSP Catalog
□ : Worthy in the World WTSP Catalog
△ : Worthy in Country WTSP Catalogs
－ : Irrelevant/neglected in the WTSP Catalogs

The sites are rearranged with the evaluation, and are shown in some (tentative) categorization.
Description of the ‘representative’ page is deleted, because of no significant information any more..

Further tasks to be done:

Visit individual sites again and describe its introduction in 5-10 lines each.
Note that the same site may have pages written in English or in any other languages.

Interim Search Results for the World WTSP Catalog:

Do further surveys (a) with keywords in wider scope for the sites written in English, (b) for the TRIZ-related sites written in any other languages, and merge the results, (c) for the TRIZ-related sites located in any other countries, and merge the results.
We should make USA WTSP Catalog for readers located in USA and World WTSP Catalog for people in the world.

Survey Results: (Simplified for posting in HTML (Mar. 30, 2019, TN)) ==> .docx file

68 sites rearranged in the order of their evaluation and type. ( 22 sites irrelevant/neglected are omitted in this list. )

Evaluation symbol; Site name; URL of the site domain; Number of TRIZ-related pages hit by the Site search

	Eval	Site name	Site URL	Site search pages	Note
====== Evaluated ◎ : Most important in the World WTSP Catalog ===== ( 6 sites) ==
International TRIZ organization -
	◎	MATRIZ (International TRIZ Association)	https://matriz.org/	295
	◎	The Altshuller Institute for TRIZ Studies	https://www.aitriz.org/	1,110
Important public Web sites in TRIZ
	◎	Wikipedia	https://en.wikipedia.org/	737
	◎	Ideation International, Inc. (Where Innovation Begins)	https://www.whereinnovationbegins.net/	34
	◎	ICG Training & Consulting	https://www.xtriz.com/	135
	◎	TRIZ Power Tools (OpenSourceTRIZ.com)	https://www.opensourcetriz.com/	25

====== Evaluated ○ : Important in the World WTSP Catalog ====== ( 11 sites) ====
Consultancy / Methods
	○	GEN-TRIZ	https://www.gen-triz.com/	31
	○	iSixSigma	https://www.isixsigma.com/	84
Knowledge sharing
	○	YouTube	https://www.youtube.com/	16,800
	○	SlideShare	https://www.theiet.org/	2,940
	○	GoodReads	https://www.routledge.com/	416
	○	Vimeo	https://vimeo.com/	300
Publication
	○	ScienceDirect (Elsevier)	https://www.sciencedirect.com/	1,130
	○	SpringerLink	https://link.springer.com/	2,660
	○	ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Digital Library	https://dl.acm.org/	5,640
	○	Strategies for Creative Problem Solving (University of Michigan)	https://umich.edu/~scps/	63
Social Networking Servoces
	○	LinkedIn	https://www.linkedin.com/	9,240

====== Evaluated □ : Worthy in the World WTSP Catalog ===== ( 27 sites) ====
Organization
	□	NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information)	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/	89
	□	TRIZ Asia (TRIZ Association of Asia)	https://trizasia.com/	48
	□	I-SIM (International Society of Innovation Methods)	https://i-sim.org/	24
Consultancy/methodology
	□	TRIZ Consulting, Inc.	https://www.trizconsulting.com/	22
	□	Technical Innovation Center, Inc	https://www.triz.org/	58
	□	The TRIZ Group	https://trizgroup.com/	29
	□	NPD Solutions (New Product Development Consulting Service)	https://www.npd-solutions.com/	11
	□	SAE International	https://www.sae.org/	23
	□	Glenn Mazur	https://www.mazur.net/	14
	□	Novaces.com	https://www.novaces.com/	36
	□	Routledge	https://www.routledge.com/	51
	□	Southbeach Modeller	https://www.southbeachinc.com/	29
Social Networking Servoces
	□	Meetup	https://www.meetup.com/	372
	□	Idea Connection	https://www.ideaconnection.com/	37
	□	Facebook	https://www.facebook.com/	91	*** Note: many irrelevant
Knowledge sharing
	□	Quora	https://www.quora.com/	735
	□	IntechOpen	https://www.intechopen.com/	34
	□	TOC (Theory of Constraints).tv	https://www.toc.tv/	6
	□	ASQ (American Society for Quality) TV	https://videos.asq.org/	14
	□	Emerald Insight	https://www.emeraldinsight.com/	1,130
Publication
	□	Academia	https://www.academia.edu/	2,900
	□	SSRN（Social Science Research Network）Papers	https://papers.ssrn.com/	239
	□	SAGE Publishing	https://journals.sagepub.com/	600
	□	IEEE Xplore Digital Library	https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/	1,430
Personal / Blogs
	□	Liberating Structures	https://www.liberatingstructures.com/	120
	□	Dummies	https://www.dummies.com/	11
	□	Information Architected	https://www.informationarchitected.com/	29
===== Evaluated △ : Worthy in Country WTSP Catalogs === ( 24 sites) ====
Organization
	△	ATTI (Association for TRIZ and Technical Innovation)	https://trizti.org/	5
	△	IET (The Institution of Engineering and Technology)	https://www.theiet.org/	13	*** Based in UK
Academia
	△	Everett Community College	https://www.campusce.net/everett/	12
	△	Everett Community College	https://www.everettcc.edu /	20
Consultancy / Training
	△	Pivot Management Consultants	https://www.pivotmc.com/	16
	△	TargetProcess	https://www.targetprocess.com/	8
	△	ProdyoVidhi Consulting	https://www.prodyovidhi.com/	37
	△	Proinn Consultancy	https://proinnconsultancy.com/	22	*** Based in India
	△	EDU Outdoor Activities	https://edu-sg.org/	15
	△	Designorate	https://www.designorate.com/	27
	△	Synnovating	https://www.synnovating.com/	18	*** Based in Germany
	△	Firefly Consulting	https://firefly-consulting.com/	2
	△	PEX (Process Excellence Network)	https://www.processexcellencenetwork.com/	14
Knowledge sharing / publication
	△	Wiley	https://www.wiley.com/	27
	△	Atlantis Press	https://www.atlantis-press.com/	92
	△	X PRX	https://exchange.prx.org/	13
	△	Hindawi	https://www.hindawi.com/	55
Events / Social Networking Servicw
	△	The Liberators (Medium)	https://medium.com/	539
Other related methods
	△	Machine Design	https://www.machinedesign.com/	16
	△	ASME (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers)	https://www.asme.org/	13
Personal / Blogs
	△	Udemy	https:// www.udemy.com/	8
	△	HYPE Innovation Blog	https://blog.hypeinnovation.com/	4
	△	Dr. Bala Ramadurai	https://balaramadurai.net/	43	*** Based in India
	△	Lifehack	https://www.lifehack.org/	9

=====Evaluated － : Irrelevant/neglected in the WTSP Catalogs ==== ( 22 sites)
Omitted