02 / HOW WE WORK
Four ways we lead teams to breakthroughs.
Whether the problem is a contradiction, a harmful action, an unexplained failure, or the next product generation, TOP-TRIZ facilitation guides subject-matter experts to an exhaustive set of elegant solutions.
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Solving Contradictions
When attempt to improve one feature of function causes worsening of another feature of function, using our conflict solving algorithm, we lead SME to breakthrough solutions improving the desired feature of function without any worsening of the conflicting feature of function. Moreover, the second feature or function very often is improved as well.
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Eliminating a Harmful or Undesired Action
We lead SMEs though our checklists such as Direct Ways and Indirect Ways to eliminate a Harmful Action developing an exhaustive set of the best solution while maximizing utilization of the available resources to make these solutions inexpensive implement and use.
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Revealing the Causes of a Failure
We start with the end result pretending that we want it. Using our methodology, we lead the team to invent all ways to produce this result using only available resources. As a result, unknown root causes are revealed in hours or days.
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Developing Next Product-generation or Circumventing Competitors’ Patent
We lead SMEs by using our database of trends of evolution of technical systems. Also, using our checklists of physical forces and effects, we can develop a system or at least a function utilizing a different way of operation. In addition, our simplest approach is to trim an existing system by getting rid of some of its components and changing the system so its performance will be at least not deteriorated or even improved.