Understanding Secrets of Sustainability through TRIZ Philosophy

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

http://works.bepress.com/umakant_mishra/122

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262104418_Understanding_Secrets_of_Sustainability_through_TRIZ_Philosophy

Designing an MIS Database for Selection and Recruitment

Author: Umakant Mishra

Abstract:

Selection and recruitment is a key HR function and it is often necessary to maintain at least a small database of all the candidates who have been invited in past interviews. This information may be considered as a part of HR MIS and may be maintained by HR department along with other HR MIS such as employee information, transfers, performance appraisals, trainings etc.

This recruitment MIS database includes all the candidates after the preliminary scrutiny is over. When the candidates go through different stages of interviews, the MIS also captures all their interview results. Maintaining this information not only helps the HR manager but also helps other senior managers to find the short listed/ interviewed candidates quickly from the database.

As this MIS data contains confidential information, such as, salary negotiations etc., the access to this data should be restricted only to few senior managers. The MIS administrator may assign read/write access to different data/reports based on the role and responsibility of the manger in the organization.

Keywords: information systems, management information system, MIS database, recruitment database, employee database, database design, database structure, software design, MIS design

Mishra, Umakant, Designing an MIS Database for Selection and Recruitment (September 13, 2013). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2325533 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2325533

http://ssrn.com/abstract=2325533

http://works.bepress.com/umakant_mishra/121

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262103972_Designing_an_MIS_database_for_selection_and_recruitment

How to Implement Access Rights in an MIS Project

Author: Umakant Mishra

Abstract:

The MIS data is critical to an organization and should be protected from misuse by wrong persons. Although The MIS data is typically meant for the senior managers each MIS report may not be required by every manager. The access to MIS data is determined by the role of an individual in the organization and controlled by the MIS administrator accordingly. The access is generally determined by the following parameters, (a) the type of user (such as staff or manager etc.), (b) the type of data (whether general data or managerial data), (c) level of access (read/ write/ admin access) and (d) special access allocated by MIS admin. By combining all the above four parameters, each individual user can be allocated exact specific rights required to access the MIS.

Keywords: information systems, management information system, computer security, data security, access rights, MIS security, data protection, access level

Mishra, Umakant, How to Implement Access Rights in an MIS Project (August 24, 2013). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2315570 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2315570

http://ssrn.com/abstract=2315570

http://arxiv.org/abs/1309.5393

http://works.bepress.com/umakant_mishra/120

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256926173_How_to_Implement_Access_Rights_in_an_MIS_Project

Simplifying Inventive Standards (Part-5)

Author: Umakant Mishra

Abstract:

As the “inventive standards” are really complicated, Generich Altshuller and other creators of “inventive standards” created a set of standards (grouped under class-5) to help using the standards. There are totally 17 standards in class-5. This article will try to simplify all these 17 standards under class-5.

While writing these articles the author realized that although the grouping and ordering of the 76 standards don’t appear to be systematic there is no easy method of regrouping or reorganizing the standards. The author tried regrouping and reordering the standards in various different ways but nothing really came out satisfactory. Much more work is necessary to simplify the 76 standards to make them usable by a larger group of TRIZ practitioners. Till that time the standards will remain only partially used.

Keywords: TRIZ, Inventive Standards, Inventive Solutions, Standard solution, 76 solutions, Inventive problem solving, S-Fields, Su-Fields,

Umakant Mishra, Simplifying TRIZ Inventive Standards (Part-5) (November 7, 2013). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2351288 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2351288

http://works.bepress.com/umakant_mishra/119

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262103836_Simplifying_Inventive_Standards_(Part-5)

Simplifying Inventive Standards (Part-4)

Author: Umakant Mishra

Abstract:

Although “Inventive Standards” (or standard solutions) is one of the most powerful techniques of TRIZ it is hardly used by any TRIZ practitioner because of its complexity. The objective of this series of articles is to explain the rules in simple language. In this article we will discuss all the solutions in class-4. There are 17 solutions in class-4 all of which deal with the problems relating to measurement and detection.  For example some objects may be extremely large (e.g. earth) or extremely small (e.g., atoms) and cannot be easily measured. Some items like germs and viruses are not visible and hence difficult to detect. Similarly measuring various parameters associated with rare phenomena (like earth quakes or plane crashes) are difficult. These standards show various ways to detect and measure even under most difficult situations.

Keywords: TRIZ, Inventive Standards, Inventive Solutions, Standard solution, 76 solutions, Inventive problem solving, S-Fields, Su-Fields,

Mishra, Umakant, Simplifying Inventive Standards (Part-4) (November 7, 2013). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2351219 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2351219

http://ssrn.com/abstract=2351219

http://works.bepress.com/umakant_mishra/118

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262103501_Simplifying_inventive_standards_(Part-4)

Simplifying inventive standards (Part-3)

Author: Umakant Mishra

Abstract:

According to TRIZ most problems are “standard” problems. The standard problems are those which are known to have occurred many times in many places. Besides these problems have been solved by different people in different places (may be in different contexts) at different times. As there are many known solutions to such problems it is possible to abstract the rules of solution from the group of individual solutions. TRIZ provides a set of 76 rules to solve such standard problems.

Although “Inventive Standards” (or standard solutions) is one of the most powerful techniques of TRIZ it is hardly used by any TRIZ practitioner because of its complexity. The objective of this series of articles is to explain the rules in simple language. Conventionally the solutions of Class-3 have never been presented with S-Field diagrams. The diagrams presented in this article are innovation of the author. If some TRIZniks don’t accept the correctness of these diagrams they are welcome to give their comments and suggestions.

Keywords: TRIZ, Inventive Standards, Inventive Solutions, Standard solution, 76 solutions, Inventive problem solving, S-Fields, Su-Fields,

Mishra, Umakant, Simplifying TRIZ Inventive Standards (Part-3) (November 7, 2013). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2351201 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2351201

http://ssrn.com/abstract=2351201

http://works.bepress.com/umakant_mishra/117

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262103724_Simplifying_inventive_standards_(Part-3)

Simplifying inventive standards (Part-2)

Author: Umakant Mishra

Abstract:

In the previous article we discussed all the standard solutions in class-1. In this article we will discuss all the standard solutions in class-2. The standards of class 2 intend to improve the system without inserting too much changes to the system and without increasing the complexity of the system. These standards guide how to use chain SFields, Double SFields and complex S-Field Models.

Keywords: TRIZ, Inventive Standards, Inventive Solutions, Standard solution, 76 solutions, Inventive problem solving, S-Fields, Su-Fields,

Umakant Mishra, Simplifying TRIZ Inventive Standards – Part 2 (October 8, 2013). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2337696 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2337696

http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=2337696

http://works.bepress.com/umakant_mishra/116

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262103403_Simplifying_inventive_standards_(Part-2)