The Dramatic Improvement Method
The Dramatic Improvement Method
The Drim Method is a continuous improvement process for applying the Drim Manifesto and Dimensions to a challenging situation or thing.
The Dramatic Improvement Method
It's nearly always better - and possible - to make incremental imrpovements, repeatedly, over time.
Occasionally a paradim shift is required, however - although it's nearly always possible to migrate to the the new paradigm in a staged way.
So, the Drim Method is actually a never-ending cycle, in which the previous solution is the either the next solution requirement or the cause of the current challenge and state.
The Drim Method Flowchart
The Drim Method is a simple set of steps for identifying and applying the Drim Manifesto and Dimensions to a challenging situation or thing.
The Drim Method Flowchart
Move down the flow-chart until your solution is good enough - for now.
- Keep a look out for triggers.
- Scan for leverage opportunities.
- Look for Drim Story matches.
- Look for Arena Solution matches.
- Look for Drim Dimension matches.
- Develop a (set of) custom Drim DImension solutions.
- Develop a (set of) custom Drim solutions.
1. Look for your Favourite Levers
Nearly every lever is present in every single situation. Start by looking for the levers that you know best.
Look for Your Favourite Levers
It's worth looking for your favourite levers first - because you're pretty adept at seeing them.
- Ask yourself how this lever applies to the situation/thing you are facing.
- If you've already found that lever, consider applying the lever to itself (e.g. What's the bottleneck in the bottleneck?)
- if you can't find your favorite lever in the situation/thing, ask yourself why not? This will probably point to the idea leaver to use.
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2. Look for Drim Story Matches
Nearly every drim story has parallels with every other drim story - but you have to look to find them.
2. Look for a Drim Story Match
Stories are fantastic vehicles for conveying, storing and disseminating drim solutions.
- View your challenging situation/thing as a story.
- Look for parallels - even if only partial ones - in your library of dramatic improvement stories.
- You'll find that very few stories will have no parallels at all with your story - although it may seem that way at first.
- Work out how to apply the underlying princiiples from the matching stories to your one.
3. Look for Arena Solution Matches
Look for specific personal or organisational arena drim solutions to pattern your solution on.
3. Look for Arena Solution Match
- Browse the related personal and/or organisational arenas (e.g. Relationships, Ingenuity, Marketing, Sales) looking for matching elements to your situation.
- Choose a specific solution - or set of them - from the collection within that Arena.
- Work out which elements of the arena solution apply most directly to your specific situation.
- Take a crack at applying the elements that don't match, to your situation - you'll be surprised!
4. Look for Dimension Solution Matches
Look for matches between the drim dimensions and your situation, that you can patern your soltuion on.
4. Look for a Dimension Solution Match
- Identfy which of the Drim Dimensions (Flow| Ingenuity|Change|Mastery|Synergy|Meaning) will have the biggest impact - all will apply in some way.
- Identify solutions in the relevant dimensions that apply to your situation.
- Adapt and apply them - independently at first, then in combination - to your situation.
- Enhance your solution until you're happy with it.
5. Develop a Custom Drim Solution
Develop and integrate a set of solutions for each of the msot relevant Drim Dimensions, using teh Ingenuity.
5. Develop a Custom Drim Solution
- Choose an Arena (Marketing, Sales, Production, etc) from the Solutions in the Main Menu.
- Choose a specific solution - or set of them - from the collection within that Arena.
- Identify which of the solution elements seem to apply to your situation directly - and which don't seem to.
- Apply those solutions to your specific situation.
