Evaluating Innovations - and more

Some people involved in practicing ISO 9000+ requirements are very unhappy about its cost burden. Systematic Innovation offers the possibility of reducing the burden and turning what is left into an advantage for the own organization, rather than the ISO marketing trick, which won't gain much once the majority of companies have been ISO approved.

Methods are a dry subject, unless applied. Systematic Innovation training on methods, analysis, researching solutions is as large as the one on processes. For size please check the processes page. Go to top of Methodology Page, select S.I. Contents, then Processes.

METHODS LIST - German language

Wrong questions are leading to wrong answers. But what is the right question? Answers should be interpreted as a response to the question asked. We often find answers, without knowing the question that lead to it. A dangerous source of minunderstanding, and an error multiplier. Systematic Innovation is focussing on generating the right questions. It is here where its power sets it apart from the typical creativity seminars of fashionable status .

Unless we recognize the type of a problem, we may attack it the wrong way. Once we have defined the type, we need to analyse what change would be involved and its cost. If your problem materializes in your superior, you basically have three options: 1. Put up with it, 2. Change the superior's ways, 3. Exchange the superior. It needs careful, cool analysis which option may produce the best result.

The same analytical approach is needed for technical and organizational problem fields. We should avoid wasting time on pseudo problems, or on problems we cannot solve, on situations we cannot change.

The cost of change, and the research going into it are directly related to the width and the depth of a problem cluster. The gain must remain higher than the cost. The future cost may not be overwhelming, or a burden to the next generation. We have to look at the whole situation. Unfortunately lots of projects are extremely short sighted, the people deciding on it having left the scene before the consequences arrive. It is necessary to identify hidden costs.

Solution generators are those methods we mentioned as break through tools, which are the unparalleled strength of Systematic Innovation. Look up the real world applications by going to the main menu, select Examples.

We have mentioned it before, here it is again: Systematic Innovation is very powerful not only in finding solutions, but also in predicting whether there is a solution at all. It is an agonizing situation having spent millions of dollars on a project, only to find that the "solution" is impossible because it doesn't fit within scientific laws, laws of nature. Systematic Innovation seminars will show examples where feasibility studies indicate solutions, and the S.I. methods show why these "solutions" are impossible. This means avoiding expenditures that could run into millions.

Innovations have a habit of being misunderstood. Relative literature mentions hundreds of examples. Misunderstanding is quite often a matter of misrepresentation. It is the responsibility of the people with the knowledge to make sure they are being understood. Jargon won't win critical supporters.

Another important chapter is documentation. Many companies are currently facing the ISO requirements on information handling. Systematic Innovation has excellent tools to make the ISO requirements an advantage for the company involved. In fact these advantages are much more powerful than the marketing side of the ISO bandwagon. If possible a company should be introduced to Systematic Innovation before starting the process of ISO 9000, 14000, etc.

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