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General Methodology of Creative Problem Solving & Task Achieving (CrePS):
Reorganizing Various Application Cases and Their Methods in the ‘Six-Box Scheme’ |
| Toru Nakagawa (Osaka Gakuin University, Professor Emeritus)
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(A) Japan TRIZ Society, 10th TRIZ Symposium in Japan, Sept. 11-12, 2014, at Waseda Univ., Tokyo
(B) Japan Creativity Society, 36th Annual Conference, Oct. 25-26, 2014, SANNO Institute of Management, Tokyo
(C) European TRIZ Association (ETRIA), 14th World TRIZ Future Conference 2014, Oct. 29-31, 2014, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
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| Posted: Nov. 7, 2014 |
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Editor's Note (Toru Nakagawa, Nov. 7, 2014)
Since May 2012, I have been adovocating to establish 'A General Methodology of Creative Problem Solving & Task Achieving' (CrePS). The present paper summarizes the vision of CrePS briefly and describes the current status of developing CrePS, i.e. the results of research for the last one year and the on-going research activities. The research focus is to reorganize various case studies of problem solving and their methods in the framework of the 'Six-Box Scheme' of CrePS. During last one year I spent much time to publish the 4 volumes of "TRIZ Practices and Benefits" book series and to renew the Web site "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" by building 4 Entrance Pages; and hence the reorganization work of the CrePS contents was rather slow, I admit.
At the three TRIZ conferences in September and late October this year, I presented three papers of the same title with some adjustment and revision depending on their different audiences and timing. The following table lists the materials I presented at the three conferences; they include the papers/slides submitted beforehand for official publication, the slides used in the presentation, the slides translated from English into Japanese afterward, and some printed materials distributed separately at the conferences.
As shown in the bottom row, slides and papers in the latest conferences are posted in the present site in the HTML format in English and in Japanese. (The paper in English is going to be publicly posted by ETRIA in Elsevier Procedia in 2 months. After such a posting, I will post my paper (and its link to Elsevier) here. At the conferences, I have distributed the flyers of Renewed home page 
, Japanese book announcement , and Global network proposal .
My presentations at these 3 conferences can be represented by Slide #8 of my ETRIA TFC presentation.
The current status of research on CrePS/TRIZ/USIT:
'General Methodology for Creative Problem-Solving/Task-Achieving' (CrePS)
** CrePS is feasible by using the 'Six-Box Scheme' as the basic paradigm.
** Different methods (including TRIZ) can be reorganized into CrePS.
** USIT is a concise process for applying the Six-Box Scheme of CrePS.
On-going research activities for developing CrePS:
(1) To make course materials of CrePS case studies. We should just use case studies already published.
(2) To understand different methods (including TRIZ) and to describe them in the framework of CrePS.
(3) To relate CrePS to various activities in the 'Real world'.
(4) To categorize various purposes of CrePS application, and to recommend concise CrePS processes for each category.
(5) To proliferate the vision of CrePS.
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Paper Abstract
General Methodology of Creative Problem Solving & Task Achieving (CrePS):
Reorganizing Various Application Cases and Their Methods in the ‘Six-Box Scheme’
Toru Nakagawa
(Osaka Gakuin University, Professor Emeritus)
14th ETRIA TRIZ Future Conference (TFC2014)
held on Oct. 29-31, 2014,
at
EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Abstract
'Creativity methods' or 'Problem solving methods' have been much studied, but have not been spread widely enough so far. It is because such methods have been partial and not organized well due to the lack of general frameworks. Thus the present author have been proposing since 2012 to establish 'General Methodology of Creative Problem Solving & Task Achieving' (abbreviated as "CrePS") and spread it widely.
In the present paper I am clarifying the vision of the CrePS methodology and am reporting the progress in the research of establishing it. As the framework of the CrePS methodology we adopt a new paradigm of creative problem solving, i.e. Six-Box Scheme. This scheme clarifies the different roles of the 'Real World' and the 'Thinking World'. The Six-Box Scheme, on the contrary to the conventionally used 'Four-Box Scheme' of abstraction in science and technology, has clear and detailed guidelines of what information is to be obtained/clarified in each box, or the stage of problem solving.
I am currently working to interpret various case studies of creative problem solving in terms of the Six-Box Scheme to build a collection of case studies of applying CrePS methodology. I am also working to describe what kind of information is desired at each stage (or box) of CrePS and how to obtain it, in a hierarchical manner. Such description is expected to make a common platform to discuss about the methodologies of creative problem solving on academic and objective bases. I wish you to share the vision and to collaborate in the study.
Keywords: Creative problem solving; General methodology; Six-Box Scheme; CrePS; Case studies; Cooperative work
Paper in Japanese (published in the Proceedings of Japan Creativity Society Conference)
(in Japanese page, HTML)
(in PDF)
Presentation slides (in English)
Japan TRIZ Symposium 2014 Slides PDF
ETRIA TFC 2014 Slides PDF
Presentation slides (in Japanese)
Japan TRIZ Society 10th Japan TRIZ Symposium 2014 Slides PDF
Japan Creativity Society 36th Annual Conference Slides PDF
ETRIA TFC 2014 Slides PDF
Last updated on Nov. 7, 2014. Access point: Editor: nakagawa@ogu.ac.jp
