USIT: A Concise Process for Creative Problem Solving Based on the Paradigm of the Six-Box Scheme － USIT Manual and USIT Case Studies (Toru Nakagawa, Journal of JCS (2015))

USIT/CrePS Paper:
USIT: A Concise Process for Creative Problem Solving Based on the Paradigm of the Six-Box Scheme -- USIT Manual and USIT Case Studies --
Toru Nakagawa (Osaka Gakuin University)
Published in the Journal of Japan Creativity Society, Vol. 19, pp. 64-84 (2015) (in Japanese)
Posted on Jun. 11, 2016

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Editor's Note (Toru Nakagawa, Jun. 9, 2016)

This paper is the final paper published in the Journal of Japan Creativity Society (JCS) after the peer-review and revision process of my paper published in the Proceedings of the JCS Conference held on Oct. 3-4, 2015.  The paper describs about USIT in its full extent at moment in Japanese.

Title and Abstract of the paper are published both in Japanese and in English in parallel. The Englsih part is:

USIT: A Concise Process for Creative Problem Solving
Based on the Paradigm of the Six-Box Scheme
-- USIT Manual and USIT Case Studies --

Toru Nakagawa (Osaka Gakuin University, Professor Emeritus)

Journal of Japan Creativity Society, Vol. 19, pp. 64-84 (2015)

[Abstract]

USIT (Unified Structured Inventive Thinking) was originally developed by Ed Sickafus in 1985 as a concise whole process for creative problem solving.

It has been developed further in Japan by the present author since 1999.
Especially, the basic framework of USIT was established in the form of the Six-Box Scheme in 2005.
By using the Six-Box Scheme as a new paradigm, we have found it possible to integrate a large variety of creativity/innovation methods and to unify them into the ‘General Methodology of Creative Problem Solving (CrePS)’ in 2013.

In the present paper we have made the ‘USIT Manual’ and a Collection of USIT Case Studies by re-describing over-10 case studies in the Six-Box Scheme.
Besides introducing them, we are going to discuss about
     the concept of the Six-Box Scheme,
     feasibility of integrating into (or constructing) CrePS,
     the process of USIT especially in the idea generation step, and
     further tasks for achieving the CrePS methodology and its concise & practical process USIT.

Keywords: Creative problem solving, Six-Box Scheme, CrePS, USIT, basic paradigm

In English, please refer to my paper published in the Proceeding of ETRIA TFC2105 and in the ETRIA Journal, and also to my latest paper presented at TRIZCON2016 (Mar. 3-5, 2016), (to be posted soon).

TRIZCON2016 Paper

Collection of USIT Case Studies

Nakagawa's Paper Guide

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