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Innovation and Overcoming Organizational Stuckness

Mike Cardus

Several years ago, while learning about TRIZ , I came across Nine Windows. PEOPLE = the people that use your service/product or support MARKET POTENTIAL = known or assumed potential. How was the market viewed for your services/product or support in the past? Is there any potential market that is still relevant to the past?

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Quality Tools to Discover Solutions: Nine Windows

Mike Cardus

Nine windows is often used in TRIZ (The theory of inventive problem solving) to explore solutions to a problem in a context of past present and future. Nine-Windows in human system i.e. team building & leadership, can be used as a planning tool. Please share thoughts and what quality tools you use in the comments.

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Applying a Model for Small Business Continual Improvement

Deming Institute

Quality tools are shown next to stages where they are most often useful but many tools can be used in many different stages of the model. Marketing mix. 6 Sigma Statistical tools to analyze Market data BCG matrix. 15) Measure results in real time on the job, not only on the desk, by using visual management tools.

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