Ingenuity Drîm Solutions

2. The Ingenuity Dimension Solutions

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 Solutions

1. Provisionals: Generate a series of rough, provisional solutions.
2. AGI: Generate and integrate alternatives to the current provisional solution.
3. GPS: Establish the single Goal, Problem and Solution for all stakeholders in all time periods.
4. Pattern Thinking: Instead of compromising or choosing between inadequate solutions, find the repeating pattern across them.
5. RET: Reverse-Engineer solutions from the benefts sought to the solution features required.

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.

The Top Five Ingenuity Lever Solutions

Using these levers - independently or in concert - guarantees next-level outside-the-box genuius insights and solutions in a fraction of the normal time.

The Top Five Ingenuity Lever Solutions

1. Provisionals: Force out a provisional solution, no matter how inadequate and enhance it iteratively.
2. AGI: Generate and Integrate alternatives to a starting provisional solution or design.
3. Pattern Thinking: Generate lots of ideas. Find common themes. Find the repeating pattern.
4. GPS: Clarify the Goal, then the Problem and only then the Solution to maximise impact & efficiency.
5. AWAPITA: Focus on completing As Well As Possible In the Time Available, rather than ASAP.

Provisionals Technique

Use the power of provisional solutions to overcome the Peter Principle and Perfectionism.

Provisionals Technique

Provisionals Technique is deliberately adopting very rough and of necessity inadequate solutions ahead of any thought or research.

The power of provisionals lies in their creation of a tangible working solution - that is a lot easier to enhance than an ethereal solution that doesn't yet exist.

Provisionals can take the form of a few descriptive words or a rough diagram or barely-working prototype: anything to trigger of the enhancement phase of the innovation cycle.

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.

RET

(Reverse-Engineering Technique

Use the power of reverse-engineering to streamline and guarantee outcomes.

RET

(Reverse-Engineering Technique

Reverse-Engineering (working backwards from instead of forwards to) the ultimate state sought) offers a number unique of advantages.

1. It enables us to ensure that we haven't missed any essential elements out.
2. It enables to exclude the superfluous.
3. It enables us to figure out demanding and complex challenges.

We don't need to abandon Forward Engineering - merely supplement it with RET.

Future Retrospective

Use the gift of hindsight - to reverse-engineer failure, opportunity and success modes.

Future Retrospective

Future Retrospective is a more comprehensive version of the subsequently developed Pre- Mortem, in that it investigates not only the reasons for failure, but also the keys to success, opportunities encountered and the learnings achieved.

The objective is to enhance the project plan and project team preparedness by deliberately catalysing foresight by engaging hindsight in each of the key contributory modes.

AWAPITA

As Well As Possible In The Time
Available/Allocated/Assigned

A powerful and effective alternative to ASAP.

AWAPITA

As Well As Possible In The Time
Available/Allocated/Assigned

Completing something AWAPITA rather than ASAP switches the focus from perfection-as-long-as-it-takes to getting-it-done-in-a-timely-way-even-if-it's-not-perfect).  It enables us to overcome perfectionism, procrastination and multitasking and accelerate innovation and productivity.

It combines well with Provisionals, AGI and fast-cycle, multi-pass innovation.

Pattern Thinking

Generate genius-level insights and solutions, on demand.

Pattern Thinking

A simple technique for finding the repeating patterns that drive the behaviour of the systems that make challenging situations seem so intractable.

1. List the elements of the situation - like issues & challenges - & opportunities and solutions.
2. Look for common themes across the set
3. Look for the single repeating pattern across the set of common themes.

The themes & pattern won't be immediately obvious but will, very quickly, leap into focus.

The GPS (Goal|Problem|Solution)

Simple, powerful, universal strategy model.

The GPS (Goal|Problem|Solution)

1. The Goal Pattern: The single situation-wide goal pattern,
2. The Problem Pattern: The single situation-wide core/root problem pattern.
3. The Solution Pattern: The single simple situation-wide breakthrough solution pattern.

There is a single, situation-wide GPS (Goal|Problem|Solution) Pattern for each & every challenging situation or thing. It can be found using Pattern Thinking or AGI, below.

GBE (Good|Bad|Exceptional)

Simple framework and method for helping people escape the box of mediocrity.

GBE (Good|Bad|Exceptional)

GBE gets people to list current and potential good and bad features and experiences of products and services in a brainstorming way.

Then collaborate to develop good features and experiences against each bad one - with a view to replacing the bad ones with good ones.

The real impact comes from the third step, which is to create a third, Exceptional column/category to bring people to extrapolate and use other techniques to significantly exceed their best previous ideas.

TEASE

1. Target things more accurately or tightly.
2. Enhance: Make things better.
3. Accelerate: Make things faster.
4. Streamline: Make things quicker, cheaper or easier.
5. Energise: Make things more appealing to people.

TEASE

TEASE is one of many Improvement Mode Frameworks that identify the improvement dimensions to consider.

Knowing what dimensions of a challenging situation or thing we can improve, enables us to both identify and focus on those dimensions more easily and precisely.

1. Chose which dimensions will have the biggest impact - independently and in concert.
2. Focus the Ingenuity Solutions at each dimension to generate ways of improving it.
3. Find a combination that works.

Innovation Hothouse

A way of deliberately and systematically catalysing, accelerating and synergising individual and collective ingenuity and innovation.

Innovation Hothouse

Run a succession of 90-second idea generation and recognition sessions to generate increasingly outside the box ideas and integrate and evolve them into simple counter-intuitive dramatic improvement breakthrough solution.

Innovation Hothouse has a number of advantages over conventional Brainstorming techniques, because it allows people to generate ideas in parallel and enables everyone's (not just the dominate personalities') ideas to be captured and built upon, collaborate lively.

The IMP Ideal|Minimalistic|Proposed Technique

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The IMP Ideal|Minimalistic|Proposed Technique

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The IFOES Framework

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The IFOES Framework

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The DCOMRIS Framework

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The DCOMRIS Framework

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