We deliver services both in person (on site) and remotely.

In-person engagements

1. Invite us in for a chat - 0800 776 276 / .
2. We'll use some of the time we spend together to run a high-level diagnostic on your situation together and discuss ways of teasing more performance out of it - and what role we and our services could play in it.
3. If you'd like us to help you, we'll discuss the options in more detail and work up a proposal and quote for you.  This process is free and obligation-free.
4. If you'd like to go ahead, we'll probably start with a small pilot in a key part of your organisation to gain immediate impact and momentum, prove our competence and establish a pull-system for change.

Remote engagements

1. Make initial contact via phone 0800 776 276 (NZ) +64 9 475 9530 or email .
2. We'll help you work out if your situation would benefit from one or more of our existing solutions or if you need a custom solution to be developed, remotely via phone email and Skype.
3. If you decide that you'd like us to help you, we'll discuss the best way to do so with you and work up a quote.  This process is free and obligation-free.
4. If you'd like to go ahead, we'll probably start with a small pilot in a key part of your business to gain immediate momentum, prove our competence and establish a pull-system for change.

Click here to contact us to set up that first meeting.

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Please contact us to explore how we might support you in achieving your objectives, achieving greater impact or starting a movement within your team, organisation sector or country.

0800 776-276 (New Zealand)
+64 (9) 475-9530 (International)

P O Box 35-456
Auckland
0753
New Zealand

Foundations

Prodsol was established in 1998 and used a combination of TOC (Theory of Constraints), TRIZ (Theory of Inventive Problem Solving), Systems Thinking and NLP (Neurolinguistic Programming) to improve organsational performance.

Pattern Thinking

In 2000 we made our first breakthrough discovery - Pattern Thinking.  Pattern Thinking (patternthinking.com) combines fundamental elements of TOC, TRIZ, Systems Thinking and Cognitive Neuroscience into a single simple technique for deliberately and systematically gaining deep, pattern-level insights into complex and challenging situations and systems.

Solution Library

Over the next few years, client engagements led us to develop a library of common industry, sector and functional area productivity patterns, insights and solutions.

By 2007 it was becoming difficult to find new challenges that we hadn't come across before - indicating that we'd identified the most common challenges organisations face.  The only way to improve our practice was to look for even deeper root cause problems and even more simple and powerful solutions to them.

The Human Condition Problem|Solution

In 2009 we realised that there is a single, universal - seemingly impossible-to-solve - human condition problem underlying all of the challenges people and organisations face: unconscious incognisance.

Unconscious incognizance is the seemingly inescapable biological reality that we don't know what we don't know and are consequently trapped within our current thinking and capability, only advancing in a slow evolutionary way.

We found a way of overcoming unconscious incognizance by enhancing and accelerating the evolutionary process (Deliberate Ingenuity) and creating a pull-system for change.  By 2011 Deliberate Ingenuity had evolved into Deliberate Mastery - a simple technique for deliberately and systematically accelerating individual and collective capability.

TEASE

Deliberate Mastery led to TEASE, a simple diagnostic and intervention tool for targeting, enhancing, accelerating, streamlining and energising impact and capability.

TEASE enables us to diagnose and intervene faster and more effectively and, as a result, get even better results even sooner, growing capability even faster in the process.

We're currently building an online application version of TEASE, called Mystro.

Impact Revolution

In 2012 we designed the Impact Revolution, a simple framework for creating a worldwide ingenuity and mastery movement starting within organisations and communities.  

Impact Revolution comprises an ongoing series of intriguing, inspiring and transforming fortnightly gatherings that establish a self-perpetuating and self-reinforcing pull-system for the dissemination of dramatic improvement insights, solutions and capability.

It's an organisational/societal transformation delivery system for all of the solutions we and others have gathered and developed so far and will develop into the future.  Click here to join the movement - or start one in your organisation or community.

Universal Intervention Taxonomy

Our latest discovery/development is a universal taxonomy/ontology for intervening in challenging situations.  It comprises a comprehensive set of intervention domains for individual and collective improvement, which link to a many-to-many diagnostic and intervention framework.

This has resulted in a Universal Management Intervention Template that organisations can use to shape individual and collective intervention and accelerate capability development, codification and dissemination.

Mystro

We have designed and have begun developing an online application that will enable people and organisations to diagnose situations, devise solutions and design and manage interventions, collaboratively.

We value:

1. Results and satisfaction over effort.
2. Simplicity over complexity.
3. Focusing on what will improve things the most rather than what things can be improved the most.
4. Using leverage rather than brute force.
5. Capitalising on and collaboratively shaping existing passion and momentum.
6. Finding a way rather than settling for compromise.
7. Compellingly attractive pull that people embrace with enthusiasm over coercive push that they resist with fear, dread and a vengeance.

1. We work out what the best approach to take is in collaboration with our clients, rather than independently of them.
2. We don't hold ourselves out so much as subject-matter experts or industry-sector experts, but as "sense-making" specialists.
3. We work from the end-result backwards, rather than from the current reality forwards - in order to ensure that we include the essential and exclude the superfluous.
4. We implement in stages, creating a compellingly attractive pull-system for change instead of a repellingly coercive push-system.
5. We target leverage-points rather than using brute force.
6. Our engagement philosophy is outcome- and output-focused rather than effort- and input-focused.

What we do

We specialise in helping organisations improve their processes, practices and projects, transferring capability in the process.  We are often called upon to solve problems and secure crucial outcomes when other initiatives and methods have failed.

We work with and for executives, management teams and business improvement teams.

Our secret

We've found a way of deliberately and systematically identifying and solving the seemingly impossible-to-solve (and often invisible) problems that constrain performance and satisfaction.

When these problems are solved, the impact is significant, immediate and sustainable - because they are what's really constraining performance.

Solution Library

We've built a comprehensive library of breakthrough solutions to the most common of these seemingly unsolvable problems which are the real bottlenecks and constraints on organisational performance.

Our solution library of ready-to-implement solutions enables us - and our clients - to diagnose and intervene very quickly and inexpensively.

Pull instead of push

Our intervention approach establishes a compelling pull-system for change that people embrace with enthusiasm, because it taps into their (often dormant) hunger and passion for impact and making a difference.

Pull-systems are orders of magnitude more effective, efficient and sustainable than even the most well-intentioned coercive push-system for change that people can't help but resist and definitely can't sustain.

Click here to explore our values and history.

s your Business Optimisation Team missing something elusive? We can help!

Our expertise is in improving end-to-end organisational performance.  We have a way of quickly and reliably identifying the performance leverage points in challenging situations - and developing simple, small footprint, disproportionate-impact interventions for securing dramatic improvement.

Business Optimisation teams are often low on one or more of the following essential skills:

1. Process Optimisation (if your team has been unable to reduce lead-time, increase throughput or improve quality of suboptimal processes, the gap might be here).
   Click here for brief notes on our approach.
2. Project Delivery (if your team is battling to deliver to schedule, the gap might be here).
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3. Creating a Pull-System For Change (if your organisation is resisting the change, the gap in capability could be here).
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4. Solution Development (if everything else is fine, but the impact of your team's interventions could be better, the gap could be here).
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Browse this site to find out more about us and our approach - and please contact Gary Bartlett for a confidential, no-obligation chat on relieving the constraints on your organisation's performance.   | 0800 776-276

Our solution library contains breakthrough solutions to the seemingly impossible-to-solve problems and challenges that constrain performance in the following organisational functional areas:

1. Marketing Solutions: For deliberately and systematically growing demand for products and services.
2. Sales Solutions: For deliberately and systematically increasing sales throughput while optimising buy-cycle duration.
3. Customer Services Solutions: For increasing customer satisfaction dramatically, while reducing resourcing requirements and efforts.
4. Distribution Solutions: For improving availability, reducing inventory and disseminating marketing, sales and support expertise.
5. Operations Solutions: For streamlining operations performance and improving staff satisfaction and mastery.
6. R&D Solutions: For delivering advanced late-generation innovation in a fraction of the normal time that primitive early-generation innovation requires.
7. Product Development & Management Solutions: For accelerating product performance, sales and profitability.
8. HR Solutions: For deliberately enhancing organisational culture, capability, satisfaction and performance.
9. IT Solutions: For improving IT Service delivery speed, quality, business enablement and satisfaction.
10. Project Solutions: For delivering projects and programmes faster, better, more easily and predictably and less expensively.
11. Finance Solutions: For equiping Finance to equip the business to exploit hidden value asymmetry and leverage. 
12. Management Solutions: For accelerating management capability and performance, increasing both control and freedom.