The Need for a Change Framework

The problem is that we are so familiar with the old way that we can follow it automatically, while the new way is unproven, untested and full of risks and kinks.

The solution is to collaborate in creating simple frameworks for identifying and mitigating risks and ironing out kinks - and to give people the opportunity to become adept at the new way, over time, before abandoning the old way.

The trick is to make the new way way more compellingly attractive, appealing and addictive than the old way, in the short-term - for all parties..

The Drim Dimension Stories (Series)

1. The Production Story
2. The Ingenuity Story
3. The Change Story
4. The Mastery Story
5. The Synergy Story
6. The Meaning Story

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The Flow Story

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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

Move down the flow-chart until your solution is good enough - for now.

1. Keep a look out for triggers.
2. Scan for leverage opportunities.
3. Look for Drim Story matches.
4. Look for Arena Solution matches.
5. Look for Drim Dimension matches.
6. Develop a (set of) custom Drim DImension solutions.
7. Develop a (set of) custom Drim solutions.

Look for Your Favourite Levers

It's worth looking for your favourite levers first - because you're pretty adept at seeing them.

1. Ask yourself how this lever applies to the situation/thing you are facing.
2. If you've already found that lever, consider applying the lever to itself (e.g. What's the bottleneck in the bottleneck?)
3. 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.

1. The Flow Dimension

1. Flow-RATE Acceleration is increasing the volume produced by the situation or thing per time.
2. Flow-TIME Reduction is reducing how long it takes to produce each outcome or thing.
3. Flow-QUALITY Optimisation is improveing the value of what's produced.
4. Flow-COST Containment is reducing how much investment is required.
5. Flow-State Enablement is deliberately jumping into and remaining in a mental flow-state.

2. The Ingenuity Dimension

The problem with ingenuity is that it's extremely challenging - biologically - to come up with new outside-the-box solutions and insights.

Deliberately generating and integrating alternative ways of enhancing key dimensions of an evolving solution prototype enables us to escape this physiological constraint.

Applying patterns that resolve the common contradictions between physical properties accelerates things even further.

3. Change Dimension

The problem is that we are so familiar with the old way that we can follow it automatically, while the new way is unproven, untested and full of risks and kinks. 

The solution is to collaborate in creating simple frameworks for identifying and mitigating risks and ironing out kinks - and to give people the opportunity to become adept at the new way, over time, before abandoning the old way. 

The trick is to make the new way way more compellingly attractive, appealing and addictive than the old way, in the short-term – for all parties.

4. The Mastery Dimension

The problem with learning new things beyond our current capability is that we learn best from (many) mistakes - and opportunities are relatively uncommon, so it takes a long time to achieve it.

The solution is to deliberately identify the most common remaining success and failure modes - and their earliest symptoms - ahead of time - so that we can apply deep practice techniques to grow our capability, at increasing speed, in the face of growing complexity and under increasing pressure, over time,

5. The Synergy Dimension

he problem with creating synergy is that our brains are wired to see conflicts, differences and incompatibilities far more easily than similarities, combinations and compatibilities.

The solution is familiarity with the most common forms of synergy - elusive concepts to the uninformed brain - and how they can be fashioned from the most common forms of dysergy (lack of synergy) and antergy (anti-senergy).

This enables us to deliberately identify and capitalise on synergy opportunities.

6. The Meaning Dimension

Meaning and purpose - immediate and ultimate  - drives all human activity and provides huge untapped opportunity for dramatic improvement.

The challenge with keying into meaning is that it is elusive and not as well-defined, logically grounded, accessible or easy to articulate as we may like to think.

The secret is to recognise that it's fundamentally about our perceived significance within the world we choose to live in - and our value system (what we think is important) and the mental model we have of how things work.

The Drim Manifesto

1. The Fact: Dramatic Improvement is always feasible - in every single situation.
2. The Key: Leverage - the more challenging the situation the greater the leverage.
3. The Problem: We can't see the leverage points or opportunities.
4. The Solution: Use universal leverage patterns as cognitive scaffolding to find the next level of leverage opportunities.

It's a never-ending feast!

1. The Fact

It doesn't matter how challenging the situation is - or how much time we have - we can always secure dramatically better outcomes and experiences than we are currently securing.

It's perfectly - unavoidably - natural to be sceptical of this claim, but it is demonstrably, unequivocally true.

There are no exceptions: every single situation can be improved dramatically - no matter how intractable it may seem.

2. The Key

Dramatic improvement arises from leverage.  Dramatic improvements can only be caused by leverage.

Truly challenging situations are challenging because they're dynamically complex - strong and complex interactions between the situation's  elements.

So the more challenging the situation (the greater the dynamic complexity) the greater the leverage - the more dramatic the potential for improvement.

3. The Problem

There is always another level of leverage – hidden, in plain hindsight, in the reality beyond the one we can currently see. The problem is that we can't see those leverage points, until we see them, because they are beyond our current capability to see - not because they aren't there.

One of the primary reasons that we can't see leverage points, is because they are counter-intuitive to the previous level of insight.  It's only when we see and truly understand them that they begin to make sense.

4. The Solution

Although unconscious incognizance prevents us from seeing the next-level leverage points themselves, it doesn't prevent us from seeing the repeating patterns that they follow.

Once we can see the patterns across the challenges we face - and the patterns across the interventions we can think of (especially the counter-intuitive ones) we can use these patterns as templates and exemplars – cognitive scaffolding – for finding the next-level leverage points.

What is "Dramatic" Improvement?

Halving of things like:

1. Product and service lead-time.
2. Time to complete a project.
3. Costs.

Doubling of things like:

1. Speed.
2. Capacity/throughput.
3. Quality.
4. Satisfaction.

Is it always possible?

The Drim Manifesto

1. The FACT: Dramatic Improvement is EMINENTLY
   FEASIBLE in EVERY single situation and thing.

2. The KEY Is LEVERAGE: The more challenging the situation, the greater the leverage.

3. The PROBLEM: WE CAN’T SEE the leverage opportunities – it’s not that they aren’t there.

4. The SOLUTION: WE CAN’T SEE the leverage opportunities – it’s not that they aren’t there.

The Drim Levers

Flow: Get more through the bottleneck.

Ingenuity: Generate & integrate alternatives.

Change: Make the new way more attractive in the short-term.

Mastery: Practice early diagnosis & intervention.

Synergy: Satisfy respective needs & aspirations.

Meaning: Connect solution to meaning.

The more you use, the bigger the impact.

How to Use the Levers

Go through the steps, until you have a good enough solution - for now.

1. Keep an eye out for triggers.
2. Look for drim stories that might apply.
3. Look for your favourite drim leverage patterns.
4. Look for drim dimension leverage patterns.
5. Develop a custom drim leverage pattern.
   (Provisional > AGI > Pattern Thinking > GPS)