Under ETRIA's organization and most of its world-wiedly spread members,
we had the idea to launch a survey as large as possible, touching both
academical, industrial and consulting institutions.
The idea is to capture an image as reliable as possible of the world-wide
perceptions of TRIZ and ongoing directions based on reported facts by
world-wide key persons. In this objective I draw a survey consisting in
Five chapter of questions and a total of 54 questions organized as a
system (depending on answers people are directed through different set
of questions). The survey is made sufficiently short in order for people
not to spend more than 20 min to fill it (if data's are available to them).
The methodology I propose is to start with a first circle of people (coordinators), one
per country, realying the survey thoughout his/her nationwide contacts (
see map).
It is therfore important, as a start for this activity, for me to count
on the participation of these relay persons in their respective countries.
The role of a coordinator in his/her country will consist in 3 tasks :
1. Identify in his/her country, people that will, as seriously as
possible, relay the image of TRIZ uses (and derivated methodologies).
Both in Academia (of various elevels), Industry (of various size and
sectors) and consulting firms.
2. Send a mail to each of them explaining the objective and the
hyperlink to the survey (you will also need to fill the survey under
your own name/organism).
3. Discuss (write a short paragraph) around the graphical results I will
send after I will compile the results
Of course, I engage myself to give all participants all results from
this study for their eventual personal and future uses and if they agree,
cite their name in the written report I will compile and publish afterwards.
As TRIZ is now wiedly spread throughout the world, it has undoubtedly
randomly evolved throughout people and organization perceptions and uses.