Jasbir Ryaits comments posted to TRIZ India Yahoo group

Cross posting at My other blog as well

It is a pleasure to get the following email from Jasbir Ryait, Chairman of GS Auto International. This was posted to the TRIZ India Yahoo group (trizindia@yahoogroups.co.in). Jasbir has been one of the earliest TRIZ proponents and really an innovator in true sense. His company has grown leaps and bounds over the years - Getting comments from him indicates that we are arriving in Innovation Community. Thanks Jasbir, Look forward to more interactions!

Hi all,

I reproduce below what Navneet Bhushan has written about triz thinking on his blog….and would like to add my comments below:

TRIZ THINKING

May be the whole idea of TRIZ - trying to craft a theory of inventing if I may, one need to look at - Altshuller talks about following main points
1. Focus on Function
2. Describe Ideality
3. Look at resources - in and around
4. Study Contradictions - Merging of Extremes
5. Learn from past solutions - knowledge - inventive principles
6. Study what happens to various systems as they evolve - study evolution of systems and predict next stage of your system based on other such evolutionary trends
7. Do everything systematically - step by step.

Let us look at what some others are sayingKaizen and the Art of Creative Thinking by Shingo (Cross posting from my other Blog)Kaizen and the art of creative thinking the new book by the co-creator of Toyota Production System - popularized as Lean Thinking, promises to be an important journey through the Lean Thinking. It is indeed a culmination of years of exprience which goes deep in the execution by thinking through - rather than management theories pushed through the organization - which is the regular way the change is forced on th enterprises. Just quoting the text at the link aboveKaizen and the Art of Creative Thinking The Scientific Thinking MechanismBy Shigeo Shingo Edited by Norman Bodek, Collin McLoughin, Tracy Epley Even the greatest idea can become meaningless in the rush to judgment. To gauge an idea as feasible we must cut our ties to the status quo and find the balance between constructive criticism and judgment. Within that balance we will uncover crucial input for making our ideas a reality.Do download the chapter freely available at Chapter 5 It is called from ideas to reality. It promises to be the solution to last week's objections that people had during the barkamp on "what comes in the way of idea generation".It will be interesting for us to understand the differences and similarities in these two systems - coming from Russia and Japan independently and from two different sources as well (TRIZ from inventions, Lean from producing world class automobiles)

8) THE LAWS OF CAUSALITY: a) For every effect, there is at least one cause.b) Every cause produces both negative and positive effect.

9) THE ABSTRACT THINKING: The breakthroughs/ innovations occur while iterating between lower and upper levels of abstraction. It is during this iteration process that contradictions get resolved(For the time being)

Warm Regards,Jasbir Singh Ryait
CHAIRMANGS AUTO INTERNATIONAL LTD,GS ESTATE, GT ROAD ,
LUDHIANA-141010
INDIA

Education as a social initiative

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” said Nelson Mandela. And I totally belive in what he said. So the question that raise with this is - What is education that can change this world?

Here we need to understand that education is nothing to do with literacy. It is not whether you know to read, write and sign on your own. Its beyond all this. Mere reading and writing does not give you the power to change the world. So in this context, education is Thinking. Learning to think and decide whats right and whats wrong. Thinking leads to several other avenues like problem solving, innovation, creativity, knowledge creation among others. This education does not come by merely attending schools and passing exams. Experience is what gives this education. Contextual thinking gives this education.



So, how can we bring in this type of education in our day-to-day routine learning? I feel that all this should happen at grass root level, at child level. We must encourage the child to think and ask constantly what, when, where, why, who and how. By hearting the answers from a text book and pass the exam can never give way to thinking. A mere classroom education will not stimulate thinking process in the child. Hence we must make an initiative where community at large participate in the regular school system and talk to children and explain contexts and ask them to think on how or what could be done at this situation.

Thatz it for now. Will continue later...

TRIZ THINKING

May be the whole idea of TRIZ - trying to craft a theory of inventing if I may, one need to look at - Altshuller talks about following main points

1. Focus on Function
2. Describe Ideality
3. Look at resources - in and around
4. Study Contradictions - Merging of Extremes
5. Learn from past solutions - knowledge - inventive principles
6. Study what happens to various systems as they evolve - study evolution of systems and predict next stage of your system based on other such evolutionary trends
7. Do everything systematically - step by step.

Let us look at what some others are saying

Kaizen and the Art of Creative Thinking by Shingo (Cross posting from my other Blog)

Kaizen and the art of creative thinking the new book by the co-creator of Toyota Production System - popularized as Lean Thinking, promises to be an important journey through the Lean Thinking. It is indeed a culmination of years of exprience which goes deep in the execution by thinking through - rather than management theories pushed through the organization - which is the regular way the change is forced on th enterprises. Just quoting the text at the link aboveKaizen and the Art of Creative Thinking The Scientific Thinking MechanismBy Shigeo Shingo Edited by Norman Bodek, Collin McLoughin, Tracy Epley Even the greatest idea can become meaningless in the rush to judgment. To gauge an idea as feasible we must cut our ties to the status quo and find the balance between constructive criticism and judgment. Within that balance we will uncover crucial input for making our ideas a reality.Do download the chapter freely available at Chapter 5 It is called from ideas to reality. It promises to be the solution to last week's objections that people had during the barkamp on "what comes in the way of idea generation".

It will be interesting for us to understand the differences and similarities in these two systems - coming from Russia and Japan independently and from two different sources as well (TRIZ from inventions, Lean from producing world class automobiles)

TRIZ India Forum - Step to learn TRIZ thinking

I was "fortunate" to face some flak last week from few people that I introduced TRIZ India Forum!! Thanks to them for making me think in this line.

We know there are many TRIZnik's here in India. I still don't know how many are there around who would really like to be a part of an initiative like this. However, I know there are many people who would actually want (and really passionate) to learn more about TRIZ. So, we must enable this platform to encourage them to explore the TRIZ thinking methodology.

I would like to encourage all of you to post your blogs related to the "beginners" aspect of TRIZ here as well. Please link the posting to an article you see outside, or write yourself!

TRIZ thinking ideal software system - Added by Prakash

Trying to look from a different angle, an ideal system can perhaps be the ideal function. For e.g., consider a billing software that we need to develop for a big retail shop. Translating what is ideal here from the functional angle, we can define - Ideal function should be achieving everything that a billing software can do, without increasing the cost (or reducing). We can see the functionality then can move to the super-system of the originally defined software, where the customer bills themselves!

TRIZ -Thinking - Ideal Software System

What is an ideal system? TRIZ thinking saying function achieved without resources and harm is very useful when we know the function that the system being designed need to perform.

A software system is developed more in an evolutionary way - no one knows the functionality of the system upfront. We start with something and the system typically ends in something else. In such a scenario, what is the Ideal System - do we need to look at the structure of the system rather than the function - the ideal structure that should cater for least complex system can be an ideal system?

Well we need more thoughts?

TRIZ INDIA FORUM

This is what I wrote on my blog and sent an email to TRIZ India Yahoo group .........

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So it is there Now! The TRIZ INDIA FORUM has been launched on 1st November 2007. How did it happen? Prakasan created the BLOG and it is now available for all of us to discuss TRIZ and Innovation from and for India. Why India? Why TRIZ only for Innovation?India because I believe India is the world's Innovation Tipping Point now. It is going to create multiple impacts in a decade or so and the Globe will looking at the Innovation Leadership from India, if it is not already looking at it. I remember someone wrote in 1980's, the world jungle will not be same if The Dragon and The Elephant get out of their slumber. Well last decade has seen both China and India reaching the centre stage for the world in multiple respects.The simple reason why India works is the inherent complexity of India to absorb and respond to more complexity that the world is creating. India thrives in complexity and thats a fantastic situation to be in.However, India also has problems of being a constrained by many ills. The solutions lies in exploring Innovation systematically. It will only happen through a country wide initiative to take us to the stage where we define the new world that we want to inhabit.We believe that Theory of Inventive Problem Solving - the TRIZ or at least TRIZ Thinking is the vehicle to catapult India into future.We Invite all readers to join in this journey @ TRIZ INDIA FORUM.

Launching TRIZ India Forum - Humble beginning

Finally we are here. A common place to meet all TRIZnik's around, and use the power of TRIZ methodology for Innovating India.

Everything starts with a mission, vision statement. But, I think we, TRIZ India Forum want to do this TRIZ way, defining IFR, (Ideal Final Result)

IFR
- TRIZ being part of the Indian Innovation "Syllabus"
- Enabling effective thinking using TRIZ methodologies..