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Innovation and Overcoming Organizational Stuckness

Mike Cardus

Several years ago, while learning about TRIZ , I came across Nine Windows. I’ve used it several times with individuals, teams, departments, and organization development. PEOPLE = the people that use your service/product or support MARKET POTENTIAL = known or assumed potential. What potential market is relevant?

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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. Each window is reviewed on time-scales to best plan for future solutions and ideal outcomes to ensure that the system, super-system and sub-system develop to achieve the ideal solutions.

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Applying a Model for Small Business Continual Improvement

Deming Institute

The SME deck is to be developed in two months, with weekly two hours meetings, on-line or face to face depending on the location of my clients. That doesn’t mean you can’t make mistakes, for sure it will be hard to build a perfect product. 4) Develop an org chart to assign responsibilities and communicate it to everyone.

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The Number One Key to Innovation: Scarcity

Harvard Business Review

TRIZ , for example — a model devised by Russian inventor Genrich Altshuller — is the original empirically based method, followed by SIT (for "Systematic Inventive Thinking") and a few other updated versions of it. The "Productivity" method popularized by Tor Dahl is backed up by solid experience data.