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Innovation Conversations with Dimension, Time, Cost

Mike Cardus

Sharing a TRIZ problem-solving tool called DTC Operator. I bought it many years ago while trying to learn more about TRIZ and problem-solving. In what ways could that system be developed? In what ways could that system be developed? In what ways could that system be developed? Video Transcript.

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Innovation and Overcoming Organizational Stuckness

Mike Cardus

Several years ago, while learning about TRIZ , I came across Nine Windows. ECOSYSTEM = the structure, systems, rules, regulations, and behaviors that shape your people’s life and work. Write about the ecosystem or context/systems in place, related to what your idea looked like in the past. Nine Windows. YESTERDAY PEOPLE.

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Identifying the Solution 1st, Makes Things Easier

Mike Cardus

There is a problem solving methodology called TRIZ the theory of inventive problem solving that I have been using with organizations, teams, and mangers for 2 years now. Below is a generic model of how the TRIZ tools operate. You can read about this model at The TRIZ Journal. Do you use TRIZ? What do you think?

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Three Simple Tips to Start Solving Problems in Your Business Today

Steve Farber

The Theory of Inventive Problem Solving – often referred to by its Russian acronym, TRIZ – is an analytical and algorithm-based science rooted in the study of more than 3 million patents. Since none of us exist in an ideal state, we all can use a little TRIZ. And guess what? The rest of us can use it, too. ” 3.

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Quality Tools to Discover Solutions: DTC Operator

Mike Cardus

Dimension Time Cost Operator (DTC) – A TRIZ tool for for seeing problems differently exploring ideas of extremes in size, time and cost. Define the problem : Name the system or the part of the system of interest. Dimension Time Cost Operator. The DTC Operator can work to release Psychological Inertia. The DTC Operator Algorithm.

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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. Exploring the solution as a system is vital in breaking psychological constipation. System: The problem or system that was created. Super-System.

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Managerial Leadership Training Tool: Using DTC Operator Innovation Planning

Mike Cardus

Below is ONE Quality Tool commonly used in TRIZ that we used to begin in framing the context of our solution. Define the problem : Name the system or the part of the system of interest. Dimensions: If dimensions were extremely large what would success look like, how would that happen, in what way could that system be developed?