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Sales: Buy-Cycle Acceleration
Target the lagging pre-requisite buy-cycle friction-points for each stage inteh buying cycle.
Sales: Buy-Cycle Acceleration
Extract from existing ontent
Drim Solutions
Drim Solutions secure dramatic improvement in performance and fulfilment for all concerned.
Drim Solutions
Drim Solutions are simple and (of necessity) counter-intuitive and invariably take advantage of (rather than fighting) the situational forces that constrain the improvement we're seeking.
The primary drim solution arenas are:
- The Personal Drim Solution Arena.
- Organisational Drim Solution Arena.
- Community Drim Solutions.
- National Drim Solutions.
- Civilisation Drim Solutions.
Defrag
Free up time and energy lost (easily a day a week) in seemingly unavoidable multitasking.
Gain not only time and throughput, but also increased customer satisfaction and accelerated capability and collaboration, in the process.
Defrag
Here is a starting set of simple techniques for reducing the seemingly unavoidable costs multitasking:
- Task Completion.
- Task Batching.
- FocusTimes.
- Interruption Windows.
- Scheduled Catch-Ups.
- Interruption Processing Slot.
- Cognitive Momentum Caching.
Flow-Rate Acceleration
Set of counter-intuitive steps to improve the flow-rate of any system, process, programme or situation.
Flow-Rate Acceleration
- Draw the flow.
- Identify the end-to-end bottleneck.
- Optimise the bottleneck for performance.
- Introduce QC immediately before the bottleneck.
- Choke the inflow to match the bottleneck's.
- Buffer the bottleneck to protect it.
- Introduce pre- and post-processing.
- Add bottleneck capacity.
AGI
(Alternative Generation & Integration
A way of deliberately and systematically developing lateral, outside-the box solutions.
AGI
(Alternative Generation & Integration
Generate and integrate significant alternatives to a starting provisional solution.
The starting provisional solution defines and is defined by the box one is currently thinking in.
Generating alternatives to it forces one to come up with something outside that box: a solution that defines its own - different - box. Integrating the solution ideas defines a new - more powerful and valid - box.
Pull-System For Change
Replace the normal coercive push-system for change that people can't help but resist with a vengeance to a compellingly attractive pull-system for change that they embrace with a passsion.
Pull-System For Change
People resist change only because of deep perceived or valid concerns: address them and they'll compete to be a part of the change.
- Resrtict access to the programme to people with the drim appetite, aptitude and influence.
- Commonstream roll-out features with participants' existing interests and passions.
- Provide response and engagement frameworks, to bring people to engage collaboratively and benefit from their contributions.
- Roll out like ripples in a pond - using a demand-driven approach.
Pooling Contingency
Stuff
Pooling Contingency
Pooling Contingency shifts time, resource, equipment and material contingency from tasks to schedule.
The problem with conventional time, resource, equipment and material scheduling (in which contingency is added to each step), is that we seldom benefit when we come in under budget - and always suffer when we come in over budget: so when we lose we lose and when we win, we don't win. Pooling contingency enables us - at the cost of higher frequency communications - to net unders and overs off and reduce costly multitasking.
Personal Drim Solutions
Dramatic improvement solutions for oneself and interaction with others.
Personal Drim Solutions
- General [Impact Revolution]
- Arenas [Myself|Family|Friends|School|Work|Sport| Community|Leisure]
- Domains [Health|Happiness|Relationships|Wealth| LifeStyle|Productivity|Ingenuity]
- Dimensions [Flow|Ingenuity|Change|Mastery| Synergy|Meaning]
Organisational Drim Solutions
Dramatic improvement solutions for organisations.
Organisational Drim Solutions
- General [Culture|Productivity|Processes|Projects| Meetings|Collaboration| Strategy]
- Departments [Marketing|Sales|Distribution| Operations|Production|Projects|Ramp;D and PD|Finance|Management]
- Dimensions [Flow|Ingenuity|Change|Mastery| Synergy|Meaning]
- Sectors [Farming amp; MIning|Manufacturing| Services|Intellectual|Government]
- Arenas []
Community Drim Solutions
Dramtic improvement solutions for physical and virtual groups of people.
Community Drim Solutions
- Domains
- Arenas
- Dimensions
National Drim Solutions
Dramatic improvement solution for regions and nations.
National Drim Solutions
- Domains
- Arenas
- Dimensions
Civilisation Drim Solutions
Dramatic improvement solutions for our civilisation and our planet.
Civilisation Drim Solutions
- Domains [Education|Poverty|Healthcare|War| Democracy|Crime|Fundamentalism|Capitalism| Existential Threats|Globalisation]
- Arenas [Industry|Science|Government|Healthcare| Technology|Sport|Politics|Community]
- Dimensions [Flow|Ingenuity|Change|Mastery| Synergy|Meaning]
The Drîm Dimension Solution Patterns
Six primary dimensions to consider in order to unlock dramatic improvement.
The Drîm Dimension Solution Patterns
There are six dramatic improvement dimensions - in this model, anyway! (There are many, many other ways to dimension reality up!)
The purpose of the dimensions is to enable us to deal with the various facets of a challenging situation independently, first - ;before doing so in concert.
The Drîm Hexagon, below, summarises the dimensions and the essence of their shared solution pattern.
Click the details button beneath each dimension flashcard for more detail.
The Primary Drîm Dimensions
The six primary dramatic improvement facets of every challenging situation.
The Primary Drîm Dimensions
Flow: The speed and rate that stuff is produced.
Ingenuity: Simple counter-intuitive solutions.
Change: Transitioning from old to new.
Mastery: Knowledge, expertise & experience.
Synergy: 2 + 2 = 5: things and people.
Understanding: Alignment of beliefs with reality.
Familiarity with the six drîm dimensions and their simple, counter-intuitive drîm leverage patterns, makes drîm way easier.
More about the Drîm Dimensions
Perspectives - leverage opportunity types - for securing dramatic improvement in any challenging situation.
More about the Drîm Dimensions
The drîm 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 Drîm Dimensions to suit your world, toolset and way of thinking - this set is merely one way of looking at things.
We do advise that you familiarise yourself and take advantage of this set first - as there are many thousands of hours of research, thought and work behind their selection.
The Six Primary Dimension Solutions
1. The Flow Dimension
Everything is a flow-system - and so benefits from the application of counter-intuitive flow-rate, flow-time, flow-quality, flow-cost and flow-state patterns.
1. The Flow Dimension
- Flow-RATE Acceleration : Maximise flow-rate through the bottleneck.
- Flow-TIME Reduction: Target the greatest end-to-end flow-time contributors.
- Flow-QUALITY Optimisation: Identify and resolve the core contributors to quality failures.
- Flow-COST Containment: Target the biggest end-to-end cost-contributors.
- Flow-STATE Enablement: Defrag your brain and deliberately engineer the optimal mental state.
2. The Ingenuity Dimension
Every challenging situation requires extraordinary ingenuity - because we don't know what we don't know. This is a non-trivial problem to solve!
2. The Ingenuity Dimension
- Provisionals: Generate a series of rough, provisional solutions.
- AGI: Generate and integrate alternatives to the current provisional solution.
- GPS: Establish the single Goal, Problem and Solution for all stakeholders in all time periods.
- Pattern Thinking: Instead of compromising or choosing between inadequate solutions, find the repeating pattern across them.
- RET: Reverse-Engineer solutions from the benefts sought to the solution features required.
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 - conventional approaches leave a lot to be desired.
3. The Change Dimension
Create a Pull-System for Change:
- Engagement & Response Frameworks, to help people respond in constructively & collaboratively.
- Staged Evolution: Advance in short, achievable stages to reduce friction and overwhelm.
- CommonStreaming: Capitalise on existing enthusiasm and passion by starting there.
- Restricted Access: Limit access to ideal candidates.
- Early Intervention: Identify the earliest indications that the new way will be required.
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 Mastery Definition: early diagnosis and intervention.
- Templates give novices structure and experts freedom to diagnose and intervene early.
- Decision-Trees corporatise complex diagnostic and decision-making capability.
- MODIFs: Multi-Option Diagnostic & Intervention Frameworks impart virtual mastery to novices and reduced overhead for experts.
- Deep Practice): Practice extremely slowly and repeatedly at the limit of capability first.
5. The Synergy Dimension
Deliberately forging synergy from dysergy (lack of synergy) and antergy (anti-synergy) offers huge opportunities, because we are so inept at it.
5. The Synergy Dimension
- The Golden Assumption: Assume good intent - you'll be correct 99.999% of the time.
- Xplor: Use a multi-option+add-your-own framework to secure alignment.
- WWMMDT - 'wimditty': Ask What Would Make Me Do That to understand their perspective.
- Deliberate Trust & Respect:Provide a succession of trust-rewarding experiences.
- Deliberate Synergy: Use synergy inhibitors as synergy levers.
The Understanding Drîm Dimension
Hold as many true and as few false (dramatic improvement) beliefs as possible.
The Understanding Drîm Dimension
The Understanding Dimension enables us to troubleshoot all dimensions - including itself.
- The Alladin/RUB Method: Check and correct misalignment of our beliefs with reality.
- Understanding Audit: Classify beliefs to determine their validity.
- Understanding Upgrade: Use validation and invalidation testing to improve understanding.
- Disseminating Understanding: Exploratory discussions to check for common brain blips.
The Drîm Solution Patterns
Drîm Solutions secure dramatic improvement in performance and fulfilment for all concerned.
The Drîm Solution Patterns
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.
The flashcards on this page cover the five primary perspectives: add additional ones if youhave them.
The solution section of the site provides a growing number of examples for a growing number of them.
The Drîm Dimension Solution Patterns
The six primary drîm facets of any situation or thing: cover whichever of these are relevant and drîm is assured.
The Drîm Dimension Solution Patterns
Flow: The speed and rate that stuff is produced.
Ingenuity: Simple counter-intuitive solutions.
Change: Transitioning from old to new.
Mastery: Knowledge, expertise & experience.
Synergy: 2 + 2 = 5: things and people.
Understanding: The alignment of perception with reality.
The Drîm Arena Solution Patterns
Drîm Solutions secure dramatic improvement in performance and fulfilment for all concerned.
The Drîm Arena Solution Patterns
These drîm arena solution patterns apply a combination of the drîm dimensions solution patterns.
- The Personal Drîm Solution Arena.
- Organisational Drîm Solution Arena.
- Community Drîm Solutions.
- National Drîm Solutions.
- Civilisation Drîm Solutions.
Each of these arenas has many sub-arenas - many of which are shared with other arenas and have their own sub-arenas.
Common General Solution Patterns
Generic patterns that apply across all dimensions, arenas and domains.
Common General Solution Patterns
The Universal Patterns apply across all domains, dimensions and arenas. They include:
- The Goal|Problem|Solution Pattern
- The Reverse-Engineering Pattern.
- The Pull (instead of Push) Pattern.
- The Batch-Size Pattern
- The Indirect Pattern.
- The Alternative Generation and Integration Pattern
- The Horses-For-Courses Pattern.
The Primary Lever Solution Patterns
Familiarity with the most common forms of leverage makes it way easier to spot opportunities that you might otherwise miss.
The Primary Lever Solution Patterns
Indirect, rather than direct intervention:
- Cause>Effect: Addressing effects via causes.
- Wedges: Using, directing and magnifying existing weight and force and inertia.
- Whips: Converting between momentum and speed.
- Bottlenecks: Relieving end-to-end flow-constraints.
- Reinforcing Cycles: Converting Vicious Cycles into Virtuous ones.
- Conflict/Dilemma Resolution: Resolving conflict with breakthrough rather than compromise.
The Primary Domain Solution Patterns
Drîm domains are specific fields or areas of interest or specialisation - a subset of patterns.
The Primary Domain Solution Patterns
There are too many and varied drîm domains to do justice to here, so here are the most common and pertinent:
- The People Domain
- Domain Key: Cognitive Science.
- Domain Pattern: The Golden Assumption
- The Things Domain
- Domain Key: System Science
- Domain Pattern: Indirect Intervention
Drîm Solutions
Drîm Solutions secure dramatic improvement in performance and fulfilment for all concerned.
Drîm Solutions
Drîm Solutions are simple and (of necessity) counter-intuitive. They take advantage of (rather than fighting) the forces that constrain the situation.
There are four primary perspectives to explore:
Arenas | Dimensions | Domains | Levers.
- Start with the perspective that appeals to you most.
- Note the most appealing ideas for your situation.
- Stop when you think that you have enough.
- Move to the next perspective only if you need to.
- Dig deeper on the most promising candidates.
Context (If you're new to Drîm)
A quick overview of the dramatic improvement concept and framework.
Context (If you're new to Drîm)
- Dramatic improvement (Drîm) is the discipline of deliberately and systematically improving challenging situations dramatically.
- Drîm is always feasible - the more challenging the situation, the greater the improvement potential.
- The secret is to use common repeating drîm patterns to find the drîm solutions hidden within challenging situations.
- This section provides some of those drîm solution patterns in some of the most common arenas.
The Primary Drîm Arenas
There are both universal and specific drîm patterns for each arena and domain of life.
The Primary Drîm Arenas
Drîm Solutions are simple and (of necessity) counter-intuitive and invariably take advantage of (rather than fighting) the situational forces that constrain the improvement we're seeking. They include:
Personal Drîm Solutions: Provisional set.
Community Drîm Solutions: Coming soon.
Organisational Drîm Solutions: Provisional set.
National Drîm Solutions: Coming soon.
Civilisation Drîm Solutions: Coming soon.
The Primary Drîm Dimensions
Six primary dimensions to consider to unlock dramatic improvement.
The Primary Drîm Dimensions
The (well, a starting set of) primary drîm dimensions to nearly all situations - applying to both People and Things.
Flow: The speed and rate that stuff is produced.
Ingenuity: Simple counter-intuitive solutions.
Change: Transitioning from old to new.
Mastery: Knowledge, expertise & experience.
Synergy: 2 + 2 = 5: things and people.
Understanding: Aligning beliefs with reality.
The Primary Domain Solution Patterns
The primary drîm domains are People and Things. All other domains and sub-domains derive from (mostly a combination of) them.
The Primary Domain Solution Patterns
People (Key: Cognitive Science)
People are more like us and we are more like them than either party realises. Interpersonal issues signal different (but nearly always valid)perspectives - it's almost never malice.
Things (Key: System Science)
We tend to apply force directly (ignoring and then fighting the system that they are and are part of), instead of using the system to effect the change that we need.
The Primary Drîm Levers
Familiarity with common lever-types make enables us to spot opportunities that we might otherwise miss.
The Primary Drîm Levers
Indirect, rather than direct intervention:
- Cause>Effect: Addressing effects via causes.
- Wedges: Using, directing and magnifying existing weight and force and inertia.
- Whips: Converting between momentum and speed.
- Bottlenecks: Relieving end-to-end bottlenecks.
- Reinforcing Cycles: Converting Vicious Cycle into Virtuous ones.
- Conflict/Dilemma Resolution: Resolving conflicts without compromise.
The Reason
site version notes | release roadmap | how this page works | how to use it4. 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
- Multi-Dimensionality: Reality is multi-dimensional
- Unconscious Incognizance: We haven't realised - individually or collectively - that there is such a small set of repeating patterns, so we don't decode or encode them into our thinking
- Codification: Even if we did, we'd still have to find a way of decoding and encoding them, because they are, fundamentally, indirect, relative to our current/conventional thinking
- Application: We aren't that good at applying general principles (patterns) to specific situations (we are better at generalising that instantiatiog, but with no reason to generalise...)
- Integration: We aren't that good at combining/integrating different dimensions.
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