Author: Umakant Mishra
Abstract:
After creating the weapons that can destroy the world, the
next challenge of man is not to win an enemy but to survive the disasters. The
modern man realizes that the worst challenges to face are the manmade
disasters. While the nature has given us a
well-disposed atmosphere to grow we are spoiling the natural resources through
various anti-environmental activities. Our partial knowledge on development has
taken us through a so-called development, which is neither eco-friendly nor
sustainable. It is therefore important to control our own activities and
behavior to minimize their negative effects on other adjacent systems and
environment.
Any system or process or practice can become unsustainable
because of internal conflicts or contradictions. Gain of one group of people
causes trouble to another group of people (say, by unfair trading). Improvement
in transportation (say, running of vehicles) pollutes air and environment.
Growth of urbanization causes deforestation and global warming. It is necessary
to overcome these contradictions to achieve sustainability.
The concept of sustainability is very similar to TRIZ
concept of Ideality. An ideal or sustainable system should have all desired
(positive) features and no harmful (negative) features. A sustainable system is
ideal and an ideal system is sustainable. Both the concepts can be applied to
anything, such as, a product, a process, a practice, a structure, a system or
an organization.
Keywords:
Economic sustainability, Environmental Sustainability, Total
Sustainability, TRIZ for Society, Co-systems, Super-system, Subsystems, Contradiction,
Ideality, Ideal Final Result (IFR), Solving Contradictions
Umakant
Mishra, Understanding Secrets of Sustainability Through TRIZ Philosophy (April
7, 2014). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2421392 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2421392
