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3. Solution
Build the Drîm Solution
Using std drîm patterns as building blocks.
3. Solution
Build the Drîm Solution
- Remember that the only reason we think that there are no drîm levers in the current situation is because we can't see them - yet.
- Select the most promising drîm solution patterns from the standard drîm solution library.
- Combine them into a simple, robust drîm solution.
- Enhance your drîm solution, iteratively, if necessary.
- Build your own custom drîm solution from scratch, if necessary.
Reminder: Drîm Solutions
Drîm requires a significantly different way of thinking.
Reminder: Drîm Solutions
Drîm Solutions enable us to deal with dynamic complexity and multi-dimensionality. They:
- Are simple and (of necessity) counter-intuitive.
- Take advantage of (rather than fighting) the forces that constrain the situation or system.
- Repeat throughout the situation or system.
Be prepared:
- Stage 1: From no solutions, to too many solutions.
- Stage 2: The solution is too simple and obvious.
3.1. Provisional Drîm Solution
Force out a quick, rough solution to create a tangible starting point.
3.1. Provisional Drîm Solution
- Force out a very rough and inadequate solution ahead of any thought or research to create a tangible starting point.
- A provisional captures the starting state of our thinking to compare with later.
- A tangible provisional is a lot easier to enhance than an ethereal solution floating around amorphously in our brains.
- Provisionals almost always advance us, because they force us to integrate our existing thoughts.
3.2. Scan for Drîm Solution Patterns
It's way easier to find drîm levers if you have a picture of each of them in your mind.
3.2. Scan for Drîm Solution Patterns
- Scan for Drîm Arena Solution matches.
- Scan for Drîm Dimension Solution matches.
- Scan for Drîm Situation Solution matches.
Expect to find it hard at first, because it requires on-the-fly adaptation to your situation - and, of course, there's the overwhelm-problem!
3.3. Combine and Integrate Drîm Solutions
Overcome the overwhelm!
3.3. Combine and Integrate Drîm Solutions
- Extract the main features of each drîm lever you've selected.
- Look for ways to combine them into a small set of simple elements.
- Unify into a single solution element.
- Sequence, one after the other - This THEN That.
- Do in parallel - This AND That,
- Select between - This OR That.
It's a lot easier than it seems before you start doing it!
3.4. Enhance and Simplify
Deliberate steps to ensure implementable impact.
3.4. Enhance and Simplify
Even the simplest framework makes deliberately enhancing and simplifying straightforward:
- Enhancement frameworks
- TEASE: Target|Enhance|Accelerate|Streamline|Energise
- FMA: Failure-Mode Analysis.
- Simplification frameworks
- Deliberate Simplicity
- Staged Evolution
3.5. Develop a Custom Drîm Solution
Develop your own solution elements, if the previous steps don't produce a good enough solution.
3.5. Develop a Custom Drîm Solution
Develop and integrate a set of solutions for each of the weakensses and inadequacies of your working solution.
- List the weaknesses and inadequacies in your current solution.
- For each weakness and inadequacy, generate a set of solution ideas.
- Integrate the solution ideas into a single simple solution.
- Repeat until the solution meets your requirements.
How to Drîm
(How to improve any situation or thing dramatically.)
How to Drîm
Simple steps to dramatic improvement
A framework for drîming anything.
How to Drîm
Simple steps to dramatic improvement
This section provides a simple set of steps for improving whatever challenging situation you face, dramatically.
Like anything, it's challenging, at first, but you'll be amazed at the progress you can make in a short time with very little real effort - apart from fighting your brain's firm belief that your situation is uniquely intractable.
Overcome that and you'll be just fine!
How to Drîm Advice
Use only what you need - no more!
How to Drîm Advice
It's easy to become overwhelmed by the drîm approach and process.
- Stay at as high a level as you can - going deeper only if the insight that you have so far is insufficient.
- Avoid the triple-trap of overwhelm.
- Repeatedly ask the questions:
- "Am I going down a rabbit-hole, here?"
- "Is this good enough to run with?"
- "Where would this fail - if it were to fail?"
Download the Basic Drim Strategy Template
This template comprises the following sections:
- Situation Description.
- Provisional Solution.
- Drîm Lever Patterns.
- Integrate Drîm Solution.
- Drîm Implementation Plan.
It's quick and easy to read, but not as comprehensive as the other templates.
Download the Std Drim Strategy Template
This template comprises the following sections:
- Mindset.
- Situation Description.
- Provisional Solution.
- Drîm Lever Patterns - and Integration.
- Enhanced and Simplified Solution.
- Implementation Design, Staging, Plan & Mgmt.
This is a more comprehensive template.
4 Steps to Drîm
Every single situation or thing can be improved dramatically: using the very constraints that make drîm challenging - as levers to make it inevitable.
Here are some simple steps to follow:
1. Mindset
Get into the Drîm Zone
Why and how to create the drîm mindset.
1. Mindset
Get into the Drîm Zone
We need to bring our brains to look for drîm levers that they are convinced aren't there.
- Remember that drîm is eminently achievable.
- See looking for drîm levers as a short-cut.
- The more challenging the more effective the levers.
- Be excited at gaining a new critical insight.
- Look for erroneous assumptions.
- Looking-expecting-to-find is way more rewarding.
2. Situation
Paint the situation and desired outcomes
Get an objective perspective.
2. Situation
Paint the situation and desired outcomes
Describe the situation you face - to ground things in a broader context and get the perspective you get so effortlessly on other people's challenges.
- What are we trying to achieve, for each party?
- Why is this important?
- What is the current state of play?
- What challenges do we face in securing the outcomes we seek?
3. Solution
Build the Drîm Solution
Using std drîm patterns as building blocks.
3. Solution
Build the Drîm Solution
Remember that the only reason we think that there are no drîm levers in the current situation is because we can't see them - yet.
- Select the most promising drîm solution patterns from the standard drîm solution library.
- Combine them into a simple, robust drîm solution.
- Enhance your drîm solution, iteratively, if necessary.
- Build your own custom drîm solution from scratch, if necessary.
4. Implementation
Plan and manage the implementation
Simple steps for implementing drîm solutions.
4. Implementation
Plan and manage the implementation
- Create a pull-system for change - instead of a push-system.
- Stage the implementation - small batches on short, fast cycles.
- Start with the things that most align with existing interests and passions.
- Deliberately dissolve implementation resistance - Solution features; Engagement; Capacity; Capability; Ingenuity; Collaboration - as it arises.
Prodsol Drîm Support Services
Online and onsite dramatic improvement support.
Prodsol Drîm Support Services
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- Workshops and Training Programmes.
- Coaching and Consulting.
- Projects.
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Prodsol Client Testimonials
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"The work done (and the speed at which it was done) really impressed us, particularly (Prodsol)'s ability to understand the issues.
Compliments like these are as scarce as the Moa in the health sector."
Ian Pipe
GM Radiology, South Auckland Health
HEALTHCARE
This was a competitive situation with one of the "big-six" (at the time!) consulting firms. They had had two people working on a solution for over 7 months and Ian was not confident that they were going to deliver.
We chose to present recommendations within a week - to synchronise with the competing consulting firm's delivery date.
We found a way of nearly doubling clinic capacity.
The competing company took another 5 weeks and found a 4.5% gain.
SOFTWARE
"In addition to solving known performance problems, Prodsol identifies and resolves core issues that the organisation is not yet even aware of.
I recommend their services unreservedly and welcome the opportunity to confirm these comments in person."
Dave Slomp
MD Extra Mile Technologies
SOFTWARE
I did some work for and with Dave when he was in the telecommunications industry - and then again when he had started his own manufacturing software development company.
The solutions, in both cases, resulted in a the decimation of lead time (the telco one reduced the remaining project duration from 13 months to 3 months and $7M to $360K and the second from over a year to 5 weeks).
The latter resulted in another career change for Dave - one that he has negotiated very successfully.
IMPORT|EXPORT DISTRIBUTOR
"Prodsol’s methodology is highly effective.
I have seen it in action and it definitely works."
Martin Jones
GM Crusader Distributors
IMPORT|EXPORT DISTRIBUTOR
This company was in the gaming industry.
We interviewed a manager and a staff member as well as Martin - and were able to find a simple change in culture that resulted in a dramatic improvement in both financial performance and staff and volunteer satisfaction.
INSURANCE SALES
"Prodsol has tools and techniques for enabling proper understanding of business or personal challenges and then finding solutions to them, even when the problem seems almost impossible to solve or to solve in the time required or with the resources available."
Wayne Johnstone
Insurance Company Manager
INSURANCE SALES
Wayne and I worked with his team to improve distribution sales of his company's personal insurance product portfolio.
After a 5 week trial across 5 client bank branches (in which sales improved dramatically) the company's board decided to bring the project forward and roll the training we developed together out to the remaining 172 branches.
Similar gains were secured across the other branches - and were still evident a year later.
HEALTHCARE
"Prodsol achieved more in two weeks than all the other firms put together."
Gary French
Orthopaedic Surgeon
HEALTHCARE
We were able to reduce patient visit duration substantially and free up clinical consultant capacity by a similar amount.
One of the biggest achievements was to enable a far higher level of inter-disciplinary alignment within the clinic.
Gary's comment was against a back-drop of over a dozen internal and external consulting attempts in recent years
UTILITY SERVICE PRICING
"I didn’t think it could be done!"
David Howell
Chief Executive: Metrowater
UTILITY SERVICE PRICING
We devised a solution to the problem David's organisation was facing that resulted in him being on on the TV news every night of the week before we started, as the result of legislative changes that affected water bills.
David set us the challenge of finding the optimal pricing structure - that would create the least dissatisfaction across small and high-usage users.
We found a different way of looking at it that totally satisfied all customers and the matter dropped out of the news immediately.
INSURANCE
Prodsol has helped me and my organisation achieve exceptional results - on more than one occasion and in different arenas.
The outcome has always exceeded my expectations.
I highly recommend Prodsol's services.
Mike Weiss
Insurance General Manager
INSURANCE
As Mike says in his comment, we've done a few projects for him over the years:
- Claims decision speed, quality and capacity.
- New Business processing capacity, quality and lead-time.
- Corporate Product Strategy.
- Distribution Sales.
- Organisational optimisation.
ORGANISATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS
There's a handful of intellectual giants around the world who are pioneering entirely new & successful approaches to our individual & collective challenges.
Gary Bartlett is one of those game-changers. Like many of them, he's a rare combination of modesty & ambition for our civilisation.
Peter Schibli
Management Consultant
ORGANISATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS
Peter is a seasoned business and leadership consultant and strategist, working for and with global and national brand company leadership and executive teams.
He's run a few businesses and been at the forefront of different approaches to business improvement over the last 25 years, both receiving and delivering training in the best of them from and to corporates and smaller businesses.
PERSONAL PROJECTS
Gary distills seemingly complex organisational and personal situations to the core problem and then develops extremely elegant and simple, yet ruthlessly powerful, solutions that elude most people.
Carlton Corbett
Airline Pilot
PERSONAL PROJECTS
Carlton is an airline Captain - working out of Hong Kong on international routes.
He's been privy to some of the deeper dramatic improvement concepts from the early days and applied quite a few of the deeper solutions within his world.
DRAMATIC IMPROVEMENT
I've worked on numerous client engagements with Gary and have been consistently amazed by the results he delivers as well as the significant impact his methodology has on the people involved.
Scott Jacobs
Consultant
DRAMATIC IMPROVEMENT
Scott started off as litigation lawyer, them moved into marketing and consulting.
He's been the unique position of account-managing multiple clients that Prodsol shared with top-notch (in many cases world class) consulting experts - so he had deep insight into both the client situations and their responses to the dramatic improvement concept.
LEADERSHIP
Gary provides a unique blend of skills & experience combining the 'soft' & 'hard' elements of business.
His expertise in process optimisation & productivity solutions creates business efficiencies, financial benefits & positively impacts the employee experience.
Kate Billing
Blacksmith
LEADERSHIP
Kate is passionate about leadership & expert in helping leaders & leadership teams take things to the next level.
We've worked together on a number of client engagements.
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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!
MARKETING
Sales-ready leads with over 80% conversion-rate.
MARKETING
Global Distributor: Healthcare Equipment
Solution Overview
- Targeted dissemination of highly tailored self-diagnostics that enable ideal prospective clients (for whom the product offering is ideal) to diagnose their need reliably and map it into the distributor's product portfolio.
- Access to the prospective clients is direct marketing via special a interest groups that the most influential of them belong to.
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 & senior devs.
- 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 scheduled 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.
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Personal Drim Change Patterns
How to accelerate personal change and make it stick.
Personal Drim Change Patterns
Some changes are hard to make and sustain, while others are way easier.
This page presents some common drim patterns for making change quicker, easier and stickier. It still requires skill and effort, but targets the key leverage points that make it way easier than pure effort.
The basic idea is to use an easy-to-use and return-to framework for migrating from the old way to new way, over time.
Context (If you're new to Drim)
A quick overview of the dramatic improvement concept and framework.
Context (If you're new to Drim)
- Dramatic improvement (Drim) is the discipline of deliberately and systematically improving challenging situations dramatically.
- Drim is always feasible - the more challenging the situation, the greater the improvement potential.
- The secret is to use common repeating drim patterns to find the drim solutions hidden within challenging situations.
- This section provides some of those drim solution patterns in some of the most common arenas.
The Basic Change Framework
A simple drim framework for change.
The Basic Change Framework
- Ultimate State
- What to Change
- What to Change To
- How to Make the Change
- How to Sustain the Change
- How to deal with Setbacks
Any thought and effort we invest in any of the above will deliver value in spades to any change initiative: addressing multiple of them will have an exponential impact on the likelihood, extent, value and sustainability of the change we're seeking.
Personal Impact Revolution
A way of quickly and dramatically revolutionising your personal impact, influence, satisfaction and fulfilment.
Personal Impact Revolution
Professional sports people and arts performers practice nearly every day for far fewer than weekly matches/performances, because practice is so critical to human performance and satisfaction. Assuming that our own performance and satisfaction is as important to us as theirs is to them, how come do we perform/play matches all day every day - and yet seldom, if ever practise?
- RAP Sessions
- Deep Practice Sessions
- Focus Days
- RAC Sessions
Expected Impact:
- The impact of deliberately identifying the leverage points within the situation.
- The impact of recalibrating to new insights, learning and emerging reality - naturally and as a result of previous impact.
- Accelerated mastery and performance - and, consequently, impact, influence and influence and the resultant increase in satisfaction, fulfilment and motivation.
The Change Management Framework
A simple diagnostic and intervention framework for enriching and accerating change.
The Change Management Framework
- Solution Design
- Intervention Plan
- Motivation
- Confidence
- Capacity
- Capability
- Support
The ChangeGenius Pattern
A simple framework to accelerate the change from old unhelpful habits to new helpful ones.
The ChangeGenius Pattern
It's not enough to have a new and demonstrably better solution to a challenging situation or thing - we also need to be able to implement the new solution - in the face of highly developed competence in the old way and virtually no competence in the new way.
It's a whole lot easier if we make the transition early - ideally pre-emptively - before we are already on the well-worn and comfortable path to where we no longer want to go.
Pull-System For Change
Replace the normal coercive push-system for change that we can't help but resist with a vengeance to a compellingly attractive pull-system for change that we embrace with a passsion.
Pull-System For Change
We resist change only because of deep perceived or valid concerns: address them and resistance will melt.
- Stop yourself from embarking on change, until yiou can no longer stop yourself from embracing it: any resistance you feel is legitimate, so address it first.
- Divide the change up into parts and steps, and embark on them in versy small batches of one or two at a time.
- Rank the various elements and starting points by impact, appeal and ease - weighting ease by 5x and Appeal by 3x impact.
- Use the {tip title="Intervention Management Framework" content="
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- Solution Design
- Intervention Plan
- Motivation
- Confidence
- Capacity
- Capability
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- Build momentum.
- Celebrate - and reward yoruself for each little bit of progress.
- Use The Golden Window of Opportunity and Burning Platform solutions to add Motivation
- Identification and Association
How to Upgrade Habits
Don't break or even repalce habits - enhance and upgrade them.
How to Upgrade Habits
- MODIF
- Delay
- Diversion
- Association
- Identification
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