Monday, July 07, 2008
New blogs and Wiki--Innovation and TRIZ
Frequent readers know that I have regarded this blog as an experiment, and that when the TRIZ Journal started its "commentary" and "forum" columns, I started putting most of my "TRIZ for the Real World" thoughts in those two venues. Thanks to all of you who have participated in those dialogs--the experiment in ways to increase TRIZ discussions is ongoing.
This month I've discovered two new blogs, both on the general theme of innovation, with specific topics and articles on TRIZ. Both are excellent, and I recommend them to readers.
Jim Belfiore's "Thirty minutes from Andromeda" at
http://andromeda-30.blogspot.com/ combines personal musings, technical articles, and travel topics. I've persuaded Jim to let us reprint some of his columns in the TRIZ Journal--if you enjoyed (or learned from, or got mad at...)them, you may want to read the extensive archive.
John Cooke's "The Innovator's Sweet Spot" at
http://www.cocatalyst.com/blog/ covers a wide range of innovation topics, with excellent research on examples and case studies. I've already entered comments on 4 of them (3 to agree and amplify, one to disagree--maybe that will get interested readers to go look at the comments sections!)
Bill Fowlkes has developed a Wiki called TRIZ World at
http://triz-world.wetpaint.com/
About a dozen people have made significant contributions, and many more have made occasional posts. It needs a lot more participants to reach the critical mass of people who can develop a significant body of knowledge. It is easy to participate--very intuitive interfaces. Reward: the more you post, the bigger your picture gets in the little thumbnail collection! (I thought this was a good example of a TRIZ concept of use existing resources--rewarding you with your own picture.)
Anybody have other new sites to recommend? Please send comments!
This month I've discovered two new blogs, both on the general theme of innovation, with specific topics and articles on TRIZ. Both are excellent, and I recommend them to readers.
Jim Belfiore's "Thirty minutes from Andromeda" at
http://andromeda-30.blogspot.com/ combines personal musings, technical articles, and travel topics. I've persuaded Jim to let us reprint some of his columns in the TRIZ Journal--if you enjoyed (or learned from, or got mad at...)them, you may want to read the extensive archive.
John Cooke's "The Innovator's Sweet Spot" at
http://www.cocatalyst.com/blog/ covers a wide range of innovation topics, with excellent research on examples and case studies. I've already entered comments on 4 of them (3 to agree and amplify, one to disagree--maybe that will get interested readers to go look at the comments sections!)
Bill Fowlkes has developed a Wiki called TRIZ World at
http://triz-world.wetpaint.com/
About a dozen people have made significant contributions, and many more have made occasional posts. It needs a lot more participants to reach the critical mass of people who can develop a significant body of knowledge. It is easy to participate--very intuitive interfaces. Reward: the more you post, the bigger your picture gets in the little thumbnail collection! (I thought this was a good example of a TRIZ concept of use existing resources--rewarding you with your own picture.)
Anybody have other new sites to recommend? Please send comments!
Labels: TRIZ links, TRIZ Wiki
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Global TRIZ Links Summary
Our friend Toru Nagagawa writes: The "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" has been updated today (dated on May 4) in English and in Japanese.
http://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/nakagawa/TRIZ/eTRIZ/
The whole set of pages of 'TRIZ Links' in Japan and in the World have been rebuilt after 7 years since I built the 2001 version.
In the English pages you read:
TRIZ Links in Japan: Selected 10 sites
TRIZ Links in the World: Selected 50 sites
Extended 120 sites
Every site in the list is annotated briefly, even under the limitation caused by the language barriers.
(1) Primary TRIZ sites -- 10 sites
(2) TRIZ firms: consultants, tool vendors/dealers -- 21
(3) Academic societies and journals related to TRIZ -- 16
(4) Universities, governmental or non-profit organizations interested in TRIZ -- 26 sites
(5) Commercial providers of seminars, trainings -- 6 sites
(6) Portal sites of dictionary, book search, etc. -- 8 sites
(7) Personal sites and blogs interested in TRIZ -- 10 sites
(8) Personal web sites in the fields around TRIZ -- 2 sites
(9) Users' public presentations on TRIZ -- 80 presentations arranged according to the user
organizations (24 industries, 9 universities, 4 study groups, and 1 individual).
These lists are the results of 5 full weeks of my struggling.
Hope they are useful for many people. If you find any mistake or any suggestion of improvement of the lists, please write to me via email. Toru Nakagawa E-mail: nakagawa@ogu.ac.jp
Congratulations, Toru, on your comprehensive project. I’m sure it will help many people.
http://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/nakagawa/TRIZ/eTRIZ/
The whole set of pages of 'TRIZ Links' in Japan and in the World have been rebuilt after 7 years since I built the 2001 version.
In the English pages you read:
TRIZ Links in Japan: Selected 10 sites
TRIZ Links in the World: Selected 50 sites
Extended 120 sites
Every site in the list is annotated briefly, even under the limitation caused by the language barriers.
(1) Primary TRIZ sites -- 10 sites
(2) TRIZ firms: consultants, tool vendors/dealers -- 21
(3) Academic societies and journals related to TRIZ -- 16
(4) Universities, governmental or non-profit organizations interested in TRIZ -- 26 sites
(5) Commercial providers of seminars, trainings -- 6 sites
(6) Portal sites of dictionary, book search, etc. -- 8 sites
(7) Personal sites and blogs interested in TRIZ -- 10 sites
(8) Personal web sites in the fields around TRIZ -- 2 sites
(9) Users' public presentations on TRIZ -- 80 presentations arranged according to the user
organizations (24 industries, 9 universities, 4 study groups, and 1 individual).
These lists are the results of 5 full weeks of my struggling.
Hope they are useful for many people. If you find any mistake or any suggestion of improvement of the lists, please write to me via email. Toru Nakagawa E-mail: nakagawa@ogu.ac.jp
Congratulations, Toru, on your comprehensive project. I’m sure it will help many people.
Labels: TRIZ links
