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The [[Drim]] Manifesto
Dramatic Improvement is ALWAYS possible.
The [[Drim]] Manifesto
The Dramatic Improvement Manifesto asserts that drîm is eminently feasible in every single challenging situation - and provides a high-level rationale for that assertion - as well as explaining why it may be counter-intuitive, at first.
The Manifesto is the foundation of the dramatic improvement framework, discipline and practice.
You'll find yourself returing to the Manifesto frequently, to remind yourself of the fundamental idea - especially when things are most challenging.
1. The [[Drim]] Fact
Dramatic improvement is eminently feasible in EVERY single situation - without exception.
1. The [[Drim]] 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. Drîm is not only always possible, but always feasible in challenging situations.
It's perfectly - unavoidably - natural to be sceptical of this claim (especially at first) 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 [[Drim]] Key
The key is LEVERAGE: the more challenging the situation, the greater the leverage opportunity.
2. The [[Drim]] Key
The key to dramatic improvement is leverage.
In fact, the only way improvement can be dramatic is as a result of leverage - there is no other way.
Truly challenging situations are challenging because they're dynamically complex - i.e. there are strong and complex interactions between the situation elements.
So the more challenging the situation (the greater the dynamic complexity) the greater the leverage - and, consequently, the more dramatic the potential for improvement.
3. The [[Drim]] Problem
The problem is, WE CAN'T SEE the leverage points – not that they aren't there.
3. The [[Drim]] 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.
We can't see the next-level leverage points, because they're counter-intuitive to the previous level of insight. It's only when we see them that they begin to make sense and become more obvious.
4. The Reason for the Problem
The reason that we can't see the problem is because challenging situations are too complex and multi-dimensional for our brains.
4. The Reason for the Problem
Challenging situations are too complex and multi-dimensional for our brains, unavoidably. Here's some detail:
- Detail Complexity Challenges.
- Dynamic Complexity Challenges.
- Multi-Dimensionality Challenges.
- Integration Challenges
- Codification Challenges.
- Unconscious Incognizance Challenges.
- Application Challenges.
5. The [[Drim]] Insight
There's a small set of universal lever patterns that all levers follow.
5. The [[Drim]] Insight
There's a small set of simple universal lever patterns that all [[drim]] levers follow.
These lever patterns are hidden within plain sight within each situation and repeat within and across domains, dimensions and arenas.
They may be invisible to us, until we see them, but once we've seen them, they become a lot more recognisable.
More importantly, once we've seen them in one place and know what we're looking for, they become more and more easy to find, see, use and share elsewhere.
6. The [[Drim]] Solution
Use Universal Leverage Patterns as cognitive scaffolding to find the next level of leverage opportunities.
6. The [[Drim]] Solution
If we know the common patterns that [[drim]] levers follow, we can use these universal patterns as templates and exemplars – cognitive scaffolding – for finding the next-level leverage points, which until then are invisible to us.
All it takes is a deliberate - counter-intuitive at first - scan for each of the patterns, in the face of the firm belief we have that, because we can't see the [[drim]] levers automatically, they must not be there.
Because the set of universal leverage patterns is so small, it doesn't take long to master them.
7. The [[Drim]] Implications
ANYONE that learns the universal drîm patterns can improve ANY SITUATION dramatically.
7. The [[Drim]] Implications
The implications of the Drîm Manifesto are immense for us, individually and collectively - both immediately and into the future.
Armed with the Manifesto, a set of universal [[drim]] patterns and some practice, anyone can impact any situation or thing dramatically - the more complex and challenging, the more dramatic the impact.
There is no situation beyond our reach. In fact, the ever-increasing complexity of our world positions us better for dramatic improvement leverage, than we have ever been positioned before.
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The Dramatic Improvement Method
The Drîm Method is a continuous improvement process for applying the Drîm Manifesto and Dimensions to a challenging situation or thing.
The Dramatic Improvement Method
It's nearly always better to improve in stages, repeatedly, over time - especially when a significant paradigm shift is required.
In addition to improving buy-in, staging also wastes less time, effort and money, by getting early feedback from the people and system. It's nigh impossible to get things right first-time!
The Drîm Method is a never-ending cycle. The previous solution is the either the next solution requirement or the cause of the current challenge and state.
The Drîm Method Flowchart
The Drîm Method is a simple set of steps for identifying and applying the Drîm Manifesto and Dimensions to a challenging situation or thing.
The Drîm Method Flowchart
Move down the flow-chart until your solution is good enough - for now. Skim - don't skip - steps if you like.
- Adopt the Drîm Mindset.
- Work out where to Intervene.
- Scan for Drîm Story matches.
- Scan for Arena Solution matches.
- Scan for Drîm Dimension Solution matches.
- Scan for Drîm Domain Solution matches.
- Develop a (set of) Custom Drîm Solution(s).
1. Adopt the Drîm Mindset
Everything else follows, almost naturally, from mindset.
1. Adopt the Drîm Mindset
The chances of finding a true breakthrough solution are orders of magnitude bigger if you're looking:
- For the right thing - a game-changing breakthrough.
- In the right place - where they hang out
- With the right expectation and conviction - that you'll find it
- With the appropriate method - looking for leverage across dimensions
- In collaboration with others.
2. The Drîm Intervention Framework
Intervening where it will make the difference is crucial.
2. The Drîm Intervention Framework
We tend to intervene at the places where we can make the most difference - rather than at the single a critical place that will make the most difference, end-to-end. Start by working out where to intervene :
- Solution Design?
- Intervention Design?
- Intervention Management?
These are actually a repeating cycle, each step comprising a diagnosis/design cycle and synchronising with the other steps.
3. Look for Drîm Story Matches
Nearly every drîm story has parallels with every other drîm story - but you have to look to find them.
3. Look for Drîm Story Matches
Stories are fantastic vehicles for conveying, storing and disseminating drîm solutions.
- View your challenging situation 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.
4. Look for Arena Solution Matches
Look for specific personal or organisational arena drin solutions to pattern your solution on.
4. Look for Arena Solution Matches
- 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!
5. Look for Dimension Solution Matches
Look for matches between the drîm dimensions and your situation, that you can pattern your solution on.
5. Look for Dimension Solution Matches
- Identify which of the Drîm Dimensions (Flow| Ingenuity|Change|Mastery|Synergy| Understanding) 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.
6. Look for Domain Solution Matches
Look for matches between the drîm domains and your situation, that you can pattern your solution on.
6. Look for Domain Solution Matches
- Identfy which of the Drîm Domains (People|Things or some specific combination of them).
- Identify solutions in the relevant domains 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.
7. Develop a Custom Drîm Solution
Develop your own solution, if none fo the previous steps provided a good enough solution.
7. Develop a Custom Drîm Solution
Develop and integrate a set of solutions for each of the most relevant Drîm Dimensions, using the Ingenuity and Understanding Dimension Techniques in combination with each of them.
- 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.
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The Dramatic Improvement Framework
The Drim Framework
The Drim (Dramatic Improvement) Framework is a framework of simple frameworks for dramatically improving any situation or thing.
The Drim Framework
... underlies all of the solutions on this site and is the foundation of our Drim Practice.
It comprises the Drim Manifesto and an evolving set of Drim Dimensions through which to address the situation or thing to be improved.
Frameworks - especially multi-option ones - resolve the creative-freedom versus analytical-control dilemma, by creating a highly flexible structure that catalyses creativity where it counts - serving as a creative enabler rather than a creative inhibitor.
The Drim Manifesto
The Drim Manifesto
Dramatic Improvement is ALWAYS possible.
The Drim Manifesto
- The Fact: Dramatic Improvement is always feasible - in every single situation.
- The Key: Leverage - the more challenging the situation the greater the leverage.
- The Problem: We can't see the leverage points or opportunities.
- The Solution: Use universal leverge patterns as cognitive scaffolding to find the next level of leverage opportunities.
It's a never-ending feast!
1. The Fact
Dramatic improvement is eminently feasible in EVERY single situation - without exception.
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 skeptical 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
The key is LEVERAGE: the more challenging the situation, the greater the leverage opportunity.
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
The problem is, WE CAN'T SEE the leverage points – not that they aren't there.
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
The solution is to use Universal Leverage Patterns as congnitive scaffolding to find the next level of leaverage opportunities.
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.
The Drim Dimensions
The Drim Dimensions
The Drim Dimensions are perspectives - opportunity types - for securing dramatic improvement in any challenging situation or thing.
The Drim Dimensions
The dimensions are really the top level of a deeper taxonomy - and each dimension contains and applies to every toher dimension.
Feel free to adapt this set of Drim Dimensions to suit your world, toolset and way of thinking - this set is merely one way of looking at things.
We advise you to familiarise yourself and take advantage of this first - as there are many thousands of hours of research, thought and work behind their selection.
1. The Flow Dimension
Every challenging situation is a flow-system - and so benefits from the application of dramatic improvement flow-improvement patterns.
1. The Flow Dimension
- Flow-RATE is concerned with improving the volume produced by - the capacity of - the situation or thing.
- Flow-TIME is concerned with how long it takes for something to be produced.
- Flow-QUALITY is concerned with the value of what's produced by the situation or thing.
- Flow-COST is concerned with how much investment (sum of the inputs) is required by the situation or thing.
2. The Ingenuity Dimension
Ingenuity focuses on individual and collective genius - coming up with smarter, better, cheaper, more sustainable and predictable outcomes.
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. The Change Dimension
Having a perfect solution is of only academic value without the ability to make the change from the old way of doing things to the new way.
3. Change Dimension
The problem is that people are so familiar with the old way that they 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, before abandoning the old way.
4. The Mastery Dimension
Mastery is about becoming - individually and collectively - so good at challenging things that we can do them quickly and automatically.
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
Deliberately forging synergy from dysergy (lack of synergy) and antergy (anti-synergy) offers huge oportunities, because we are so inept at it.
5. The Synergy Dimension
The problem with creating synergy is that our brains are wired to see conflicts, differences and incompatibilities far more easily than similarities, combinations and combatibilities.
The solution is familiarity with the most common forms of synergy - and how it can be created from the most common forms of dysergy (lack of synergy) and antergy (anti-senergy).
This enables us to deliberately idebntify and capitalise on synergy opportunities.
6. The Meaning Dimension
The Meaning Dimensions covers people's motivations and beliefs and how they inhibit and drive individual and collective performance.
6. The Meaning Dimension
Meaning and purpose - immediate or 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 significance within the world we choose to live in - and how we relate to it.
The Drim 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 Drim Story Matches
Nearly every drim story has parallels with every other drim story - but you have to look to find them.
1. Look for a Drim Story Match
Stories are fantastic vehicles for conveying, storing and disseminating drim solutions.
- View your challenging situation 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.
2. Look for Arena Solution Matches
Look for specific personal or organisational arena drin solutions to pattern your solution on.
2. 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!
3. Look for Dimension Solution Matches
Look for matches between the drim dimensions and your situation, that you can patern your soltuion on.
3. 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.
4. Develop a Custom Drim Solution
Develop and integrate a set of solutions for each of the msot relevant Drim Dimensions, using teh Ingenuity.
4. 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.
Is The Drim Framework for you?
Indicators
The Drim Framework is for you if:
- Your aspirations exceed what you're currently confident of securing.
- The idea of using a framework to focus your energy and creativity appeals to you.
- You can cope with adapting concepts to your reality - not everyone can!
- You grasp and embrace the idea of continuous effort and focus over an extended period of time.
Indicators
The gains that you will get from using a Dramatic improvement Framework include:
- A deliberate and systematic way of securing dramatic improvement.
- A way of integrating new insights into your existing practice.
- Growing confidence that you're meeting all of the prerequisites for dramatic improvement.
Contra-Indicators
The Drim Framework is not for you if:
- You'd like better results, but are looking for a single simple thing you can set and forget.
- You feel that your creativity is stifled by having a framework.
- You don't enjoy concepts and having to work out how to apply them.
- You prefer inventing your own solutions, than adapting and adopting other people's solutions.
Contra-Indicators
It might be better for you to:
- Scan the specific solutions on this site - in the hope that you'll find the odd nugget that you're looking for.
- Consider the possibility that - in spite of thinking that you operate best as a free thinker - you actually do use a framework or solution set: it's just not clearly articulated.
- Work through the ideas in the framework as a way of adding new things to your library.
Prodsol Dramatic Improvement Services
Online Drim Services
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Public Drim Services
Seminars, workshops and courses offered to the general public at very affordable prices.
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Drim Aacademy
The objectives of our public services are two-fold:
- To enable us to support individuals and small organisations affordably and
- To enable managers & execs to experience our services before investing in onsite serices.
Onsite Drim Services
Services provided to organisations - directly or through certified delivery partners.
Onsite Drim Services
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Setting up an Organisational Academy.
The Dramatic Improvement Framework
The Drim Framework
The Drim (Dramatic Improvement) Framework is a framework of simple frameworks for dramatically improving any situation or thing.
The Drim Framework
The Drim Framework is the foundation of the Dramatic Improvement Concept and Practice.
It comprises:
- The Drim Manifesto - the foundational concept.
- The Drim Dimensions - through which to address the situation or thing to be improved.
- The Drim Method - how to apply the Manifesto and Dimensions to any situation or thing.
- The Drim Stories - a set of simple parables to make the insights tangible and memorable.
The Drim Manifesto
Dramatic Improvement is ALWAYS possible.
The Drim Manifesto
- The Fact: Dramatic Improvement is always feasible - in every single situation.
- The Key: Leverage - the more challenging the situation the greater the leverage.
- The Problem: We can't see the leverage points or opportunities.
- The Solution: Use universal leverage patterns as cognitive scaffolding to find the next level of leverage opportunities.
It's a never-ending feast!
The Drim Dimensions
The Drim Dimensions are perspectives - opportunity types - for securing dramatic improvement in any challenging situation or thing.
The Drim Dimensions
The dimensions are really the top level of a deeper taxonomy - and each dimension contains and applies to every other dimension.
Feel free to adapt this set of Drim Dimensions to suit your world, toolset and way of thinking - this set is merely one way of looking at things.
We advise you to familiarise yourself and take advantage of this first - as there are many thousands of hours of research, thought and work behind their selection.
The Drim Method
The Drim Method is a continuous improvement process for applying the Drim Manifesto and Dimensions to a challenging situation or thing.
The Drim Method
It's nearly always better - and possible - to make incremental improvements, repeatedly, over time.
Occasionally a paradigm 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 Framework IS for you if:
- Your aspirations exceed what you're currently confident of securing.
- The idea of using a framework to focus your energy and creativity appeals to you.
- You can cope with adapting concepts to your reality - not everyone can!
- You grasp and embrace the idea of continuous effort and focus over an extended period of time.
The Drim Framework is NOT for you if:
- You need only marginally better results - and are confident of getting them
- You'd like better results, but are looking for a single simple thing you can set and forget.
- You think that a framework would stifle your creativity (it will actually catalyse it!).
- You don't enjoy concepts and having to work out how to apply them.
- You prefer inventing your own solutions, than adapting and adopting other people's solutions.
Prodsol Drim Services
Online, public and onsite dramatic improvement support services.
Prodsol Drim Services
There are various ways in which we can help you take advantage of our discoveries, solutions and services - online, for the general public and onsite:
- Seminars and Webinars
- Workshops and Training Courses
- Coaching
- Consulting
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How to Learn the Drim Framework
Overview
You'll learn dramatically better and faster if you follow an optimised drim learning route.
The basic idea is to frame your thinking with ideas first and then drill deeper, applying each insight to a tangible situations in the past, present and/or future.
The best learning combines deliberate: exploration; understanding; practice; application; implementation and review.
Teaching others and looking for ways to disprove and enhance the framework are great accelerators.
Overview
- Review the impact examples to get a feel for the order of improvement we're talking about.
- Make a list of drim stories you know.
- Review the Drim Manifesto to help your brain grasp the distinction between perception and reality.
- Review the Drim Dimensions to understand the impact of looking at things from a consistent perspective.
- Figure out how the the Drim Manifesto, Dimensions and Method apply to each story.
1. Review the Impact Examples
Explain the rationale
1. Review the Impact Examples
2. Make a list of Drim Reference Stories
Explain the rational
2. Make a list of Drim Reference Stories
- 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.
Overview
The
Overview
- 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.
Dramatic Improvement - On Demand
Impact Illustrations
IMPACT ILLUSTRATIONS
Here are some illustrations of the impact that's possible with the dramatic improvement framework.
There are always solutions as impactful as these to be found, even - especially - when situations seem intractable, at the start.
IMPACT ILLUSTRATIONS
We've enhanced the dramatic improvement framework significantly since some of these solutions were implemented - especially in the creating and sustaining change dimension.
So the impact you can expect is at least as significant as what we share below: no matter how intractable your situation may seem.
As you can see, the solutions are deceptively simple - and obvious in hindsight. Beware the trap of thinking that your situation is different!
HEALTH
Overweight business person needed a dramatic improvement solution for weight loss - he was prepared to do anything to lose weight.
HEALTH
Weight-Loss
Solution Overview
- Never say no to tasty or unhealthy food: merely delay gratification for as long as your motivation allows, and hydrate, exercise, attitune and eat healthy food in the interim.
- Realise that being hungry is not a life-threatening condition, but a highly attractive one (from a weight-loss point of view), because it means that any energy expended will burn fat reserves.
SALES
Dramatic increase in insurance sales across bank branches country-wide.
SALES
Bank: Life Insurance
Solution Overview
- A simplified, customer-centric understanding of the complex product.
- A tangible and memorable value proposition - supported by simple graphical illustrations.
- A simple selection and decision framework.
- A small collection of rapport- and trust-gaining techniques.
PRODUCTION
Dramatic increase in production throughput, on lower costs and dramatically reduced rebates and waste.
PRODUCTION
Manufacturer: Exotic Veneer Boards
Solution Overview
- Identified the press as the bottleneck.
- Ensured that the bottleneck was never starved (3 ready-to-go jobs, comprising veneer, substrate, glue and pressure|time specifications).
- Press switched on first thing and off last thing., to ensure that press utilisation is high.
- Split shifts - overlapping in the middle of the day, to ensure that the press is always working.
RELATIONSHIPS
Many marriage relationships turned around - all over the world.
RELATIONSHIPS
Marriage Reconciliation|Improvement
Solution Overview
- Recognise that relationship is the mutual satisfaction of respective and shared needs - and that neither party is clear on even what they really need, never mind what the other party really needs.
- Simple technique for surfacing respective and shared needs.
- Decision-framework for acting on the insight.
PROJECTS
12 week projects completed in 8 weeks instead of 14 - company became very popular with both schools and trade-subcontractor - whose profits also soared.
PROJECTS
Construction Company: School Blocks
Solution Overview
- Pool task-float on the project instead of the tasks.
- Agree with sub-contractors to reduce multitasking in exchange for guaranteed ability to start work on arrival.
- Rolling plan against a check-list of prerequisites (previous steps, equipment, resourcing, materials and information).
OPERATIONS
Backlog decimated within weeks. Dramatic improvement in Customer and Staff satisfaction.
OPERATIONS
Insurance Company: Standard Claims
Solution Overview
Simple asymmetrical decision-tree and accompanying scripting that asks 6 questions to determine whether we have a potentially valid claim or not.
New claims specialists can use the method reliably on their first week rather than in their 3rd month.
Backlog decimated within weeks. Dramatic improvement in Customer and Staff satisfaction.
SPORT
This primary school soccer team was being beaten by 4 - 10 goals: mostly to nil.
The win-loss record averaged a 5 goal deficit at the end of the first round, when we introduced our solution and a 5 goal advantage in the second round.
SPORT
U8 Soccer team
Solution Overview
- We taught and drilled the players (and their parents!) a simple technique (instead of merely kicking the ball as hard as possible):
- Pass square, and run straight (or through) and
- Pass straight (or through) and run square
- This enabled the team to carve up the opposition, and accelerated game sense development.
PROJECTS
The project budget - shortly beforehand approved to grow from $12M to $19M and 11 months to 24 months - was reduced to $350K and 3 months.
PROJECTS
Telecommunications: Billing Platform
Solution Overview
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Instead of replicating a newly acquired subsidiary's front-end and back-end for the new billing middleware system, develop shims between the subsidiary's front-end and the middleware and between it and the subsidiary's back-end.
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This was at least a decade before this was a known solution and long before the days of API's.
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
This company owned over 80% of the NZ market but was being losing out to inferior international competitors as it began expanding overseas.
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
Pathology Lab Software
Solution Overview
- Iterative, detailed working mockups of screens and reports before a single line of code is written.
- Pseudo coding and code prototyping.
- Pair design and development practices.
- Scheduled catch-ups between junior and senior developers.
- Agreed time allocation between support and new product development.
EDUCATION
The class teacher was phlegmatic about this student who was pretty smart for her age, but disliked reading intensely and was in the bottom reading group.
EDUCATION
Junior School Student: Reading Group
Solution Overview
- The problem was that the student's interests and maturity exceeded her reading ability.
- We had the parents read books on subjects and at levels that she was interested in - the student following along.
- Parents stopped frequently to allow her to read the next word (that she could read), increasing the complexity and number of words, over time.
HEALTHCARE
12 internal and external projects had resulted in patient visit duration increasing and patient and clinician satisfaction decreasing.
HEALTHCARE
Public Orthopaedic Clinic
Solution Overview
Patient flow-sequencing and -streamlining:
- Interleaving of appointment types at the clinical consultant step in the process.
- Patients are slotted into the schedule at the next available slot for their appointment type with their consultant.
- Patients' place in the clinic queue is retained no matter how long each process takes.
RELATIONSHIPS
Misalignment and frustration on both sides was reaching concerning levels: both parties thought that the other was being unreasonable.
RELATIONSHIPS
Parent-Child Relationship
Solution Overview
- Realise that the time to direct the child's life is long past.
- Instead of trying to get him to adopt a solution that has a greater chance of succeeding, dedicate yourself to helping him make his solution succeed, including identifying flaws and opportunities within his approach.
EXECUTIVE PRODUCTIVITY
This company owner was working long days and getting home to his young family after dinner every night. He turned things around within 2 days.
EXECUTIVE PRODUCTIVITY
Company Owner: Higher Throughput on Shorter Days
Solution Overview
This was what became our standard Defrag Your Brain! workshop - combined with a few scheduling and delegation solutions.
The basic idea is to schedule preferred Interruption Windows and Focus Times - for managers and staff. This enables everyone to get way more done in way less time at way lower biological cost.
Testimonials
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The Dramatic Improvement Framework
The Drim (Dramatic Improvement) Framework is a framework of simple frameworks for dramatically improving any situation or thing.
The Dramatic Improvement Framework
The Dramatic Improvement Framework underlies all of the solutions on this site and is the foundation of our Drim Practice. It comprises:
- The Drim Manifesto that outlines the basic thesis
- A set of Drim Dimension Solution Patterns to apply to the situation or thing to be improved.
- The Drim Method which provides a set of simple steps for applying the solution patterns to your situation.
Start here if you're new to this site and concept.
Dramatic Improvement Solutions
A growing library of aimple universal solutions for improving any situation or thing dramatically.
Dramatic Improvement Solutions
This section comprises a growing library of universal dramatic improvement solutions in the folllowing primary domains.
- Individual Drim Solutions
- Organisational Drim Solutions
- Civilisation Drim Solutions
The solutions apply the Drim Dimension Solutions to the primary arenas within the above primary domains.
Start here to find solutions for the situation or thing you want to improve dramtically.
Prodsol Dramatic Improvement Services
Online, public and onsite dramatic improvement support services.
Prodsol Dramatic Improvement Services
This section describes the various ways in which Prodsol can help you take advantage of our discoveries, soltuions and services.
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Online Services
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Public Services
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Onsite Services
Go here to subscribe to our online services, register for public events or find out how we can help you or your organisation.
How to Use this Website
Brief notes on how the site works and how to get the most from it. Click the for details.
How to use this Website
Quick advice on how to get the most from this site:
- Layout and Navigation for desktop and mobile: it's simple - once you know how!
- Discover the dramatic improvement philosophy, framework, solutions and method.
- Learn the dramatic improvement framework.
- Apply the dramatic improvement solutions and method to your situation or thing.
- Find out about the site - so that you understand what it's got and what not!
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Brief notes on how the site works and how to get the most from it.
How to Use this Website
Quick advice on how to get the most from this site:
- Layout and Navigation for desktop and mobile: it's simple - once you know how!
- Discover the dramatic improvement philosophy, framework, solutions and method.
- Learn the dramatic improvement framework.
- Apply the dramatic improvement solutions and method to your situation or thing.
- Find out about the site - so that you understand what it's got and what not!
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LAYOUT & NAVIGATION: DESKTOP
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How to benefit from the Content
DISCOVER
Discover first, before learning and applying, to get the biggest gain in the shortest time. Expect new insights to start emerging in the next few days - automatically.
DISCOVER
The first step is to review the top level of this website:
- The Illustrations (and the stories behind them) will give you sense of the sort of gains that are possible.
- The Testimonials (and the stories behind them) will help you accept that it's at least possible.
- The Drîm Framework (and, especially, the Drîm Dimensions) will give you the key building blocks.
- The Drîm Solutions are specific building blocks that flesh out the detail in a tangible way.
LEARN
Deliberately learn the key drîm patterns by reviewing them repeatedly until you can remember / predict the detail and what's coming next, reliably.
LEARN
predict > review > refine > apply > reflect
Predicting makes existing insights tangible and, in combination with Refining, reduces total learning load and provides attention-drawing contrasts to the brain.
Refining existing insights is way faster and more pleasant and effective than rote learning.
Applying fresh insights enriches and accelerates learning - if the application is simple and guided.
Reflecting integrates and embeds the new insights.
APPLY
Deliberately apply - and check that you're applying - the drîm framework, solutions and thinking to the challenges and opportunities in your world.
APPLY
Don't be surprised if you find drîm solutions and principles difficult to apply and implement, at first. Remember that dramatic improvement requires counter-inutive thinking and solutions!
Use feelings of resignation, despair or being stuck, confused, trapped or frustrated as triggers to follow the Drîm Method and browse the relevant parts of this site in search of the insight you need.
Follow the application and implementation steps rigorously - and check back periodically to make sure that you haven't forgoteen a key element.
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We're prioritising speed in getting the content out to you - at the expense of:
- Content quality, completeness and comprehensiveness and
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So please make the best use of what is there that you can - and use the Engage Button to suggest enhancements and offer support.
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Dramatic Improvement - On Demand
Impact Illustrations
IMPACT ILLUSTRATIONS
Here are some illustrations of the impact that's possible with the dramatic improvement framework.
There are always solutions as impactful as these to be found, even - especially - when situations seem intractable, at the start.
IMPACT ILLUSTRATIONS
We've enhanced the dramatic improvement framework significantly since some of these solutions were implemented - especially in the creating and sustaining change dimension.
So the impact you can expect is at least as significant as what we share below: no matter how intractable your situation may seem.
As you can see, the solutions are deceptively simple - and obvious in hindsight. Beware the trap of thinking that your situation is different!
HEALTH
Overweight business person needed a dramatic improvement solution for weight loss - he was prepared to do anything to lose weight.
HEALTH
Weight-Loss
Solution Overview
- Never say no to tasty or unhealthy food: merely delay gratification for as long as your motivation allows, and hydrate, exercise, attitune and eat healthy food in the interim.
- Realise that being hungry is not a life-threatening condition, but a highly attractive one (from a weight-loss point of view), because it means that any energy expended will burn fat reserves.
SALES
Dramatic increase in insurance sales across bank branches country-wide.
SALES
Bank: Life Insurance
Solution Overview
- A simplified, customer-centric understanding of the complex product.
- A tangible and memorable value proposition - supported by simple graphical illustrations.
- A simple selection and decision framework.
- A small collection of rapport- and trust-gaining techniques.
PRODUCTION
Dramatic increase in production throughput, on lower costs and dramatically reduced rebates and waste.
PRODUCTION
Manufacturer: Exotic Veneer Boards
Solution Overview
- Identified the press as the bottleneck.
- Ensured that the bottleneck was never starved (3 ready-to-go jobs, comprising veneer, substrate, glue and pressure|time specifications).
- Press switched on first thing and off last thing., to ensure that press utilisation is high.
- Split shifts - overlapping in the middle of the day, to ensure that the press is always working.
RELATIONSHIPS
Many marriage relationships turned around - all over the world.
RELATIONSHIPS
Marriage Reconciliation|Improvement
Solution Overview
- Recognise that relationship is the mutual satisfaction of respective and shared needs - and that neither party is clear on even what they really need, never mind what the other party really needs.
- Simple technique for surfacing respective and shared needs.
- Decision-framework for acting on the insight.
PROJECTS
12 week projects completed in 8 weeks instead of 14 - company became very popular with both schools and trade-subcontractor - whose profits also soared.
PROJECTS
Construction Company: School Blocks
Solution Overview
- Pool task-float on the project instead of the tasks.
- Agree with sub-contractors to reduce multitasking in exchange for guaranteed ability to start work on arrival.
- Rolling plan against a check-list of prerequisites (previous steps, equipment, resourcing, materials and information).
OPERATIONS
Backlog decimated within weeks. Dramatic improvement in Customer and Staff satisfaction.
OPERATIONS
Insurance Company: Standard Claims
Solution Overview
Simple asymmetrical decision-tree and accompanying scripting that asks 6 questions to determine whether we have a potentially valid claim or not.
New claims specialists can use the method reliably on their first week rather than in their 3rd month.
Backlog decimated within weeks. Dramatic improvement in Customer and Staff satisfaction.
SPORT
This primary school soccer team was being beaten by 4 - 10 goals: mostly to nil.
The win-loss record averaged a 5 goal deficit at the end of the first round, when we introduced our solution and a 5 goal advantage in the second round.
SPORT
U8 Soccer team
Solution Overview
- We taught and drilled the players (and their parents!) a simple technique (instead of merely kicking the ball as hard as possible):
- Pass square, and run straight (or through) and
- Pass straight (or through) and run square
- This enabled the team to carve up the opposition, and accelerated game sense development.
PROJECTS
The project budget - shortly beforehand approved to grow from $12M to $19M and 11 months to 24 months - was reduced to $350K and 3 months.
PROJECTS
Telecommunications: Billing Platform
Solution Overview
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Instead of replicating a newly acquired subsidiary's front-end and back-end for the new billing middleware system, develop shims between the subsidiary's front-end and the middleware and between it and the subsidiary's back-end.
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This was at least a decade before this was a known solution and long before the days of API's.
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
This company owned over 80% of the NZ market but was being losing out to inferior international competitors as it began expanding overseas.
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
Pathology Lab Software
Solution Overview
- Iterative, detailed working mockups of screens and reports before a single line of code is written.
- Pseudo coding and code prototyping.
- Pair design and development practices.
- Scheduled catch-ups between junior and senior developers.
- Agreed time allocation between support and new product development.
EDUCATION
The class teacher was phlegmatic about this student who was pretty smart for her age, but disliked reading intensely and was in the bottom reading group.
EDUCATION
Junior School Student: Reading Group
Solution Overview
- The problem was that the student's interests and maturity exceeded her reading ability.
- We had the parents read books on subjects and at levels that she was interested in - the student following along.
- Parents stopped frequently to allow her to read the next word (that she could read), increasing the complexity and number of words, over time.
HEALTHCARE
12 internal and external projects had resulted in patient visit duration increasing and patient and clinician satisfaction decreasing.
HEALTHCARE
Public Orthopaedic Clinic
Solution Overview
Patient flow-sequencing and -streamlining:
- Interleaving of appointment types at the clinical consultant step in the process.
- Patients are slotted into the schedule at the next available slot for their appointment type with their consultant.
- Patients' place in the clinic queue is retained no matter how long each process takes.
RELATIONSHIPS
Misalignment and frustration on both sides was reaching concerning levels: both parties thought that the other was being unreasonable.
RELATIONSHIPS
Parent-Child Relationship
Solution Overview
- Realise that the time to direct the child's life is long past.
- Instead of trying to get him to adopt a solution that has a greater chance of succeeding, dedicate yourself to helping him make his solution succeed, including identifying flaws and opportunities within his approach.
EXECUTIVE PRODUCTIVITY
This company owner was working long days and getting home to his young family after dinner every night. He turned things around within 2 days.
EXECUTIVE PRODUCTIVITY
Company Owner: Higher Throughput on Shorter Days
Solution Overview
This was what became our standard Defrag Your Brain! workshop - combined with a few scheduling and delegation solutions.
The basic idea is to schedule preferred Interruption Windows and Focus Times - for managers and staff. This enables everyone to get way more done in way less time at way lower biological cost.
Testimonials
Current Promotions
CURRENT PROMOTIONS
This page lists the memberships, webinars, workshops and services we're promoting.
You can see these on the top righthand slider on this site's home page: Come here if you prefer to see static flashcards!
CURRENT PROMOTIONS
Click the righthand (Details) Button below each flashcard - if it's there - for more information on that promotion.
If there's a Coming Soon button, then further information will be forthcoming shortly.
If there no idon to the right of the flashcard controls, then no further information will be provided.
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The Dramatic Improvement Framework
The Dramatic Improvement Manifesto
Dramatic Improvement is ALWAYS possible.
The Dramatic Improvement Manifesto
- FACT: Dramatic Improvement is eminently feaible in every single situation.
- SECRET: LEVERAGE - the more challenging the situation the greater the leverage opportunity.
- PROBLEM: WE CAN'T SEE the leverage points - it's not that they aren't there.
- SOLUTION: Use LEVERAGE POINT PATTERNS to help us find the next level of leverage points.
Dramatic improvement is ALWAYS possible!
The Dramatic Improvement Dimensions
The Drim Dimensions are perspectives - opportunity types - for securing dramatic improvement in any challenging situation or thing.
The Dramatic Improvement Dimensions
- Flow: Get more and better, faster and at lower cost.
- Ingenuity: Deliberately awake genius.
- Change: Make change quick, easy and compellingly attractive and sticky.
- Mastery: Decimate the mythical 10,000 hours.
- Synergy: Transform dysergy and antergy into synergy.
- Meaning: Calibrate and use motivation and belief to improve performance.
The Dramatic Improvement Method
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 Dramatic Improvement Method
- Scan for leverage opportunities.
- Use the Drim Dimension patterns to find leverage opportunity matches.
- Use the Drim Arena patterns to find leverage opportunity matches.
- Find and solve the performance-limiting problem.
- Apply existing patterns to it.
- Extrapolate from existing patterns.
- Generate and integrate alternatives to a starting (inadequate) solution.
Dramatic Improvement Solutions
Personal Drim Solutions
Dramatic improvement solutions for oneself and interaction with others.
Personal Drim Solutions
- Confidence
- Relationships
- Career
- Productivity
- Ingenuity
- Sport
- Weightloss
- Mastery
- Wealth
Organisational Drim Solutions
Dramatic improvement solutions for organisations.
Organisational Drim Solutions
- Personal Impact and Fulfilment.
- Marketing
- Sales
- Distribution
- Production
- Projects
- R&D and Product Development
- Finance
- Management
Civilisation Drim Solutions
Dramatic improvement solutions for our civilisation and our planet.
Civilisation Drim Solutions
- Education.
- Poverty.
- Healthcare.
- Democracy.
- Crime.
- Fundamentalism.
- Capitalism.
- Existential Threats.
Prodsol Dramatic Improvement Services
Online Drim Services
Services delivered - actively or passively - over the internet.
Online Drim Services
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Membership sites
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Webinars
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Courses
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Coaching
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Consulting
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Organisational Projects
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Drim Academy
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Practitioner Network
Public Drim Services
Seminars, workshops and courses offered to the general public at very affordable prices.
Public Drim Services
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Seminars
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Workshops
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Courses
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Drim Aacademy
The objectives of our public services are two-fold:
- To enable us to support individuals and small organisations affordably and
- To enable managers & execs to experience our services before investing in onsite serices.
Onsite Drim Services
Services provided to organisations - directly or through certified delivery partners.
Onsite Drim Services
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Key Note Presentations
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Seminars
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Workshops
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Courses
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Coaching
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Consulting
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Projects
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Setting up an Organisational Academy.
How to Use this Website
Brief notes on how the site works and how to get the most from it. Click the for details.
How to use this Website
Quick advice on how to get the most from this site:
- Layout and Navigation for desktop and mobile: it's simple - once you know how!
- Discover the dramatic improvement philosophy, framework, solutions and method.
- Learn the dramatic improvement framework.
- Apply the dramatic improvement solutions and method to your situation or thing.
- Find out about the site - so that you understand what it's got and what not!
Is Drim for you?
Indicators
The Drim Framework is for you if:
- Your aspirations exceed what you're currently confident of securing.
- The idea of using a framework to focus your energy and creativity appeals to you.
- You can cope with adapting concepts to your reality - not everyone can!
- You grasp and embrace the idea of continuous effort and focus over an extended period of time.
Indicators
The gains that you will get from using a Dramatic improvement Framework include:
- A deliberate and systematic way of securing dramatic improvement.
- A way of integrating new insights into your existing practice.
- Growing confidence that you're meeting all of the prerequisites for dramatic improvement.
Contra-Indicators
The Drim Framework is not for you if:
- You'd like better results, but are looking for a single simple thing you can set and forget.
- You feel that your creativity is stifled by having a framework.
- You don't enjoy concepts and having to work out how to apply them.
- You prefer inventing your own solutions, than adapting and adopting other people's solutions.
Contra-Indicators
It might be better for you to:
- Scan the specific solutions on this site - in the hope that you'll find the odd nugget that you're looking for.
- Consider the possibility that - in spite of thinking that you operate best as a free thinker - you actually do use a framework or solution set: it's just not clearly articulated.
- Work through the ideas in the framework as a way of adding new things to your library.
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Our Method Our method targets the seemingly intractable problems that constrain end-to-end performance and satisfaction, with small-footprint, highly leveraged, viral solutions. |
Our Services We provide people and organisations with affordable online and in-person dramatic improvement training, support, consulting and tools. |
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