Wednesday, October 1, 2008

A New Paradigm for Creative Problem Solving

Author: Toru Nakagawa
Abstract:
As a basic scheme for Problem Solving, the 'Four-Box Scheme' which advises to generalize the problem first into an abstract level and then to concretize it back has been widely accepted. The contents of the Four Boxes in this scheme, however, have not been well established in existing problem solving methodologies, which include analogical thinking utilizing with knowledge bases, Ichikawa's Equivalent Transformational Theory trying to extract essence from hints, and TRIZ (Theory of Inventive Problem Solving). TRIZ is typically faced with a confusing situation in its overall process due to having a large variety of techniques. ...
           
This paper was originally published in “TRIZ Home Page in Japan” in Apr 2006. Reposted in TRIZsite Journal with the permission of Dr. Nakagawa, Editor, TRIZ Home Page in Japan. For original contents please refer to the author’s site below.


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