TRIZ in Japan (Keynote at PSST2012 (Iran)) (Toru Nakagawa, Feb. 2012)

TRIZ/USIT Paper: PSST 2012 (Iran) Paper
TRIZ in Japan
Toru Nakagawa (Osaka Gakuin University, Japan)
2nd Conference on Problem Solving Strategy and Techniques (PSST 2012), Held by IIITS and IUST, at Tehran, Iran, on Feb. 22-23, 2012
[Posted on Mar. 31, 2012]

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Editor's Note (Toru Nakagawa, Mar. 27, 2012)

This paper was presented as a Keynote at the opening session of PSST 2012 Conference held in Tehran, Iran.

If you are interested in 'Why this presentation in Iran?', please refer to a separate page in 'TRIZ Forum' of this site [to be posted in a week in English ]. In the page, I describe the background story about the relationship between Mr. Mahmoud Karimi (Iran) and myself (Japan) and how was my first visit to Iran last February.

This Keynote was requested by Mr. Karimi to describe "How TRIZ entered to Japan, What has happened in the story of your country with TRIZ, and What are predicted for future". Thus I tried to present the history of introducing and penetrating TRIZ in Japan, from a public standpoint with my own view by using 16 slides. [Note: The presentation slides were checked beforehand by 3 core members of JTS.]

To make my Keynote understood better, I am posting the followings with additional annotations:

[1] Abstract of the Keynote Presentation [Written on Feb. 27, 2012]

[2] PDF version of the Keynote slides (16 slides, 410 KB)

[3] HTML version of the Keynote slides with annotation of links to original articles mostly in this Web site. [Annotated on Mar. 27, 2012]

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[1] Abstract

TRIZ in Japan

Toru Nakagawa (Osaka Gakuin University, Japan)

The 2nd Conference on Problem Solving Strategy and Techniques (PSST 2012),
Held by Technology and Iranian Institute of Innovation Technology Studies (IIITS)
and Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST),
at Tehran, Iran, on Feb. 22-23, 2012

Abstract

History of introducing and penetrating TRIZ in Japan is briefly summarized here. It has 3 stages:

(1) In the initial stage (1996-2001), TRIZ was introduced by academia (Prof. Y. Hatamura), journalism (Nikkei BP), promotion firms backed up by US TRIZ tool vendors (MRI and SANNO), academia (Toru Nakagawa) and actively tried to use in many leading manufacturing companies. However, the initial boom faded out around 2001, mostly because TRIZ was introduced as handy software tools without enough understanding of the TRIZ way of thinking, despite publications of several textbooks in Classical TRIZ.

(2) In the stage around 2002-2005, TRIZ was penetrated slowly in Japan. Nakagawa advocated 'Slow but Steady Strategy', by using the Web site "TRIZ Home Page in Japan". USIT was developed further in Japan in this stage. In several industrial companies, company-wide penetration and grass-root penetration were successfully achieved. Individuals involved in TRIZ joined to form Japan TRIZ CB in 2005 and held the First TRIZ Symposium in Japan.

(3) In the era 2006-present, TRIZ Symposium in Japan has been held annually by the Japan TRIZ Society, having about 40 presentations and 100-200 participants, as principally national and partially international conference. The penetration of TRIZ has been achieved in industries and in academia to some extent,but still much to be done.

The current situations of TRIZ in different countries are briefly summarized to show their different strengths. The vision of 'Global network of public Web sites' is shown to overcome language barriers and to reach mutual understanding for PEACE in the World.

[2] Presentation Slides in PDF

Presentation slides in PDF (16 slides, KB)

[3] Presentation Slides with Annotation of Links

[Editor's Note (T. Nakagawa, Mar. 27, 2012): For your better understanding, I added annotations of links to original articles written in English. The links mostly go inside this Web site. This is not a result of intentional bias but simply because very few are written in English in other Web sites in Japan. E.g., See TRIZ Links in Japan ]

Overview of Nakagawa's 14 Years Activities (T. Nakagawa, Mar. 2012)

Japanese Edition of Salamatov's TRIZ Textbook, Publication announcement (Supervising translator: T. Nakagawa; Published by Nikkei BP) (Nov. 2000)

Mechanism and Usage of IM TechOptimizer Pro2.5 (T. Nakagawa, (posted in MRI HP, May 1998), Nov. 1998)

Overview of Nakagawa's 14 Years Activities (T. Nakagawa, Mar. 2012)

Personal Report of TRIZCON2001 (T. Nakagawa, Apr. 2001)
Personal Report of ETRIA TFC 2001 (T. Nakagawa, Nov. 2001)

USIT Training Seminar in Japan (T. Nakagawa, Sept. 1999)

Approaches of TRIZ Applications in Japan (T. Nakagawa, May 2000)

Report of Trip to Russia and Belarus (T. Nakagawa, Sept. 1999)

CID (Creative Imagination Development) Course for Children: A full set of Guidebooks and Workbooks (N. Rubina; English translation: I. Dolina, Jan. 2001 - Feb. 2002)

(Case studies by some of these companies were posted in Japanese.)

Slow-but-Steady Strategy of TRIZ in Japan (T. Nakagawa, May 2000)

USIT Operators (T. Nakagawa, H. Kosha, Y. Mihara, Nov. 2002)

Six-Box Scheme (T. Nakagawa, Nov. 2004), (T. Nakagawa, May 2005), (T. Nakagawa, Apr. 2006)

Japanese Edition of Mann's "HOSI", Publication announcement (T. Nakagawa, Jun. 2004)

Japanese Edition of "Matrix 2003", Publication announcement (T. Nakagawa, Apr. 2005)

Teaching TRIZ at OGU (T. Nakagawa, May 2007)

Use of TRIZ in Panasonic C.C. (K. Yamaguchi, Sept. 2006 )

USIT Promotion in Matsushita EW (K. Tsuji et al., Sept. 2006)

PBL with TRIZ in Kanagawa Inst. Tech. (M. Ishihama, Sept. 2006)

Japan TRIZ CB, Message (T. Hayashi, Mar. 2005) ; Official Page (Mar. 2005- Dec. 2007)

1st TRIZ Symp. Japan 2005, Official Page (Sept. 2005); Personal Report (T. Nakagawa, Oct. 2005)

Japan TRIZ Society, Official HP (Jan. 2008 -) ;
JTS's page inside TRIZ HP Japan

7th Japan TRIZ Symposium 2011, Official Documents (Sept. 2011)

Personal Report of Japan TRIZ Symposium 2010 (T. Nakagawa, Nov. 2010)

Keynote: OTSM-TRIZ (N. Khomenko, Sept. 2010)

Keynote: TRIZ in Iran (M. Karimi, Sept. 2010)

See introductions to many presentations at Japan TRIZ Symposia in Nakagawa's Personal Reports. (2006)

; (2007)

; (2008)

; (2009)

; (2010)

; (2011)

Proposal of Global Network of Pubic Web Sites in TRIZ (T. Nakagawa, Nov. 2010)