TRIZ Paper: Japan TRIZ Symposium 2010
- Everywhere with Essence of TRIZ -
Hideto Sanjou (DOCOMO Systems, Inc.)
Held by Japan TRIZ Society on Sept. 9-11, 2010 at Kanagawa Institute of Technology, Atsugi, Kanagawa, Japan
| TRIZ Paper: Japan TRIZ Symposium 2010 |
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| Practice of Creative Thinking through TRIZ Mind Cards - Everywhere with Essence of TRIZ - |
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| Yukie Hanaoka (Wisdom, Inc.), Hideto Sanjou (DOCOMO Systems, Inc.) |
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| The Sixth TRIZ Symposium in Japan, Held by Japan TRIZ Society on Sept. 9-11, 2010 at Kanagawa Institute of Technology, Atsugi, Kanagawa, Japan |
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| Introduction (from "Personal Report of Japan TRIZ Symosium 2010" ) by Toru Nakagawa (OGU), Apr. 30, 2011 | |
| Posted: Sept. 25, 2010 |
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Editor's Note (Toru Nakagawa, Sept. 24, 2011)
This paper was presented last year by Yukie Hanaoka in a Poster session of the 6th TRIZ Symposium in Japan, 2010
. As the result of participants voting, this paper obtained an "Award of Best Papers for Me", and its presentation slides (in Japanese) have been posted publicly in the Official Site of Japan TRIZ Society since last December
.
For wider circulation of TRIZ papers, I have selected about half of the papers presented at the Japan TRIZ Symposium 2010 and am posting them publicly in this Web site both in English and in Japanese, under the permission of the authors. Nakagawa's introduction/review to each paper was written and posted in "Personal Report of Japan TRIZ Symosium 2010" from November 2010 to April 2011, and is reposted in each page of the paper.
The present page is composed of the followings:
English page (the present page) Japanese page Abstract (in HTML) (in PDF )
Extended Absract (in HTML)
(in PDF)
Presentation slides (Poster Introduction) in PDF
[English translation by Toru Shonai (Hitachi)]Presentation slides (Poster Introduction) in PDF Presentation slides (Poster) in PDF (in this Web site) Nakagawa's Introduction (Excerpt of "Personal Report") -- This is an extension of the Oral presentation by H. Sanjou and Y. Hanaoka
[1] Abstract
Practice of Creative Thinking through TRIZ Mind Cards
- Everywhere with Essence of TRIZ -Yukie Hanaoka (Wisdom, Inc.),
Hideto Sanjou (DOCOMO Systems, Inc.)The 6th Japan TRIZ Symposium 2010
Held by Japan TRIZ Society on Sept. 9-11, 2010
at Kanagawa Institute of Technology, Atsugi, Kanagawa, JapanAbstract
A viewpoint from the mind field revealed that there is a mental discrepancy between ideal and reality in company employee training, in eliminating individual’s worries, or in taking measures against and resolving each problem that could happen both socially and professionally. Upon Learning that the TRIZ technique, which assists creative thinking, also helps to solve contradictions on a technical level, and imagining that it could help to resolve the mental discrepancies on the mind level, Mind Cards, which applied the 40 Inventive Principles in a word game sense, were created. The Inventive Principles, which encourage creative operations and ideas, not only have the effect to break down mental stereotypes but also show extension to images, so they could be used in various fields.
Abstract, PDF in English
[2] Presentation Slides in PDF
Presentation Slides (Poster Introduction) in English in PDF (4 slides, 185 KB)
Presentation Slides (Poster Introduction) in Japanese in PDF (4 slides, 707 KB)
Presentation Slides (Poster) in Japanese in PDF (16 slides, 1.3 MB)
[Note: When I wrote my "Personal Report" last April, I translated additional several Poster slides into English and posted the report under the permssions of the authors. See below.]
[3] Introduction by Nakagawa:
Excerpt from:
Personal Report of
The Sixth TRIZ Symposium in Japan, 2010
Part H. Applications to Soft & Non-technical Areas
Toru Nakagawa (Osaka Gakuin University)
Apr. 23, 2011 (Posted on Apr. 30, 2011)
Yukie Hanaoka (Wisdom, Inc.) and Hideto Sanjou (DOCOMO Systems, Inc.) [J16, P-B2] gave a Poster presentation with the title of "Practice of Creative Thinking through TRIZ Mind Cards -- Everywhere with Essence of TRIZ --". The Authors' Abstract is quoted here first:
A viewpoint from the mind field revealed that there is a mental discrepancy between ideal and reality in company employee training, in eliminating individual’s worries, or in taking measures against and resolving each problem that could happen both socially and professionally. Upon Learning that the TRIZ technique, which assists creative thinking, also helps to solve contradictions on a technical level, and imagining that it could help to resolve the mental discrepancies on the mind level, Mind Cards, which applied the 40 Inventive Principles in a word game sense, were created. The Inventive Principles, which encourage creative operations and ideas, not only have the effect to break down mental stereotypes but also show extension to images, so they could be used in various fields.
[*** This Poster presentation was so attractive that it obtained the 'Best Presentation for Me' Award by the voting of the Symposium participants. English translation of the slides are not ready. I am going to introduce this presentation in more detail after translating the slides. (Mar. 30, 2011) --- I now have translated about half of their slides into English, I am going to review it here. (Apr. 23, 2011)]
In the preceding Oral presentation Sanjou and Hanaoka reported the theoretical part of their work, while in the present Poster presentation Hanaoka and Sanjou demonstrated the practical part. As shown in the slide (below-left), they encountered TRIZ while they were looking for a method for solving mental conflicts. And they have rephrased the TRIZ 40 Inventive principles so as to match in the mental field. An excellent idea here is that "With 40 TRIZ-based Mental Principles and 12 Mental Conflict, let's make a new set of Playing Cards!". Slide (below-right) illustrates how they made the TRIZ Mind Cards. (1) Translated the TRIZ Inventive Principles from technical terms into mental terms (as reported in the preceding paper), (2) Added illustrations so as to enhance the images in the mental world, and (3) Made a set of Playing Cards for adding the enjoyable feature. As you see the cards with illustration are very charming. [*** I remember Rikie Ishii's "Idea Pop-up Cards" reported in Japan TRIZ Symposium 2007
The slide (below) shows the design of the 52 cards. It has four suits, as usual. TRIZ Principles are assigned to the cards from Ace to 10. They correspond to 10 phases of 'Mental Change Cycle', the Authors say. On the other hand, 12 Mental Conflicts are assigned to Jack, Queen, and King, in the order of their seriousness. Some of the TRIZ Mental Principles do not fit well to the Mental Change Cycle, the Authors admit. [*** But we do not care much. Or else, there can be a policy of setting up revised 40 Mental Principles without sticking strictly to the original TRIZ Principles.]
The slide (right) illustrates a way of using the TRIZ Mind Cards. The cards are used in a way similar to he tarot fortune-telling. Slide (below) is the more standard way of using the TRIZ Mind Cards for helping people solve (or get relaxed from) their mental conflicts. In Step (1), a Mental Conflict Card (i.e., either J, Q, or K) is (randomly) chosen (in this example, the card is 'Don't Think') and think over my own mental conflict from the specified aspect. Then in Step (2), we look into the root cause of the trouble using the suggestions shown in the orange boxes.
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In Step (3), we think over various solutions from different viewpoints. There are three basic perspectives, i.e., from Environment, from Behavior, and from Capability, which correspond to the 'Super-system, System, Sub-system' in the technical field. For each perspective, a TRIZ Mind Principle Cards (i.e., either one from Ace to 10) is (randomly) selected. With the card as a hint, we will think over some solutions, which would not come out from stereotypical thinking. Selecting cards in Step (1) and Step (3) may be done multiple times to think over from different viewpoints.
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Slide (below-left) shows further applications of the TRIZ Mind Cards. [*** The Cards seem to fit well for the individual use of personal problem solving, but also suitable for open, group use for the sake of training and group thinking.] In the last slide (below-right), the Authors suggest 'Adding Color' by the use of the TRIZ Mind Cards, in the sense of playing. Four cards, more or less randomly chosen, are arranged for illustrating the basic policy in the present work.
[*** The Oral and Poster presentations by the team of Sanjou and Hanaoka are excellent work of introducing TRIZ to a new field (i.e.. Mind Field in the present case). Essence of TRIZ is well understood and adapted in a way easy to apply for the people in the new field, I think.]
Last updated on Sept. 25 2011. Access point: Editor: nakagawa@ogu.ac.jp
