The Instant Inventor - Workshop
A workshop for people who can't wait for the inventive spark.
A subset of Systematic Innovation - concentrating on solution mining.
What you will learn:
4 Steps:
Defining the border of the problem field (objective, vision, chances)
Assessing the current situation, preparing for take off
Elementary research for Solution Hooks (SH) and Least Energy Change Factor (LECF)
Combining SH and LECF into a solution that improves cost effectiveness and system performance, any system: Technological, economical, architecture, etc.
Applications
Customers buy what they want.
Customers do not buy what they need, unless they understand what you offer.
Look at your competitors through the rear mirror, by offering customers something new.
If you offer something new, offer it from the customer's perspective and future need.
Structuring reserach steps - formulate concepts.
Combining a general definition with the appropriate detail resolution, step by step.
Applications of the morphological box and table to structure inventive steps.
How to recognize possible and impossible goals, feed the former and starve the latter.
Applications
The impossible cube - a training model.
Waste and gain in research approaches. More, if time permits.
Who should attend:
People dealing with technology and complex service organizations, design, marketing, development; and of course Intellectual Capital Growers.
Speaker / Mentor: Emil Zahner, President of the Morphological Institute Canada.
Time: 8.30 to 17.00, 1 Saturday. Location: Waterloo Kitchener Cambridge, to be announced
Cost:
$600.- plus tax for employees and business owners,
second person of same business $350.-
$400.- including tax. (extra
low introduction rate) for employed private individuals
$300.-
including tax for the first ten private people who paid the
full amount of $400.00.
Minimum deposit $100.- with
registration.
Deposit and other payments will be refunded in full if workshop does
not take place within nine month, see registration details. Else no
refund for deposit.
Next workshop date (Saturday) to be announced, shortly after 20 people signed up.