This page describes processes / procedures. It also serves as an example of the depth of the various chapters. All chapters: Mind - Communication - Organization - Processes - Methodology are really of a similar depth. The reader should be aware that he depth shown here has no bearing as to the minimum requirements or minimum education level to understand. Systematic Innovation always ascertains the basics first, before moving on, building on what has been learned. Don't feel overwhelmed. The information is here to show you the quality of the system, not to intimidate or estrange you.

Systematic Innovation will cover decision processes to an appropriate extent, suitable for the goals of the seminar. However, organizations should take advantage of the integralty of the morphological approach to process structuring. This will guarantee organizing decision structures in an appropriate, beneficial way. Some highlights covered in this special seminar: Decision processes; Communicating decisions; Prioritizing; Hierarchically interlaced structures of decision processes; dynamic planning; safety aspects of decisions. Avoiding catastrophes caused by unsuitable decision chains.

Innovation processes must be structured in a way that eliminates errors. Errors are normal during an early innovation process. Systematic Innovation ascertains these errors are caught before they cause cost. The seminar will provide the tools. For risky projects, special application coaching is recommended, and available from CanMor.

A very coarse check list of an innovation process may ponder these points:

1. The term "innovation". What is an innovation?
2. Initiatiating an innovation
3. Impossibilities
4. Impregnating catastrophes
5. Methods for the innovation process

• Customer oriented
  • A process of researching current customers needs
  • A process of researching prospective customers needs
  • A process of researching change of customers needs
  • A process of researching customers geographical distribution
  • A process of researching why customers have these needs
• Products / Services oriented
  • A process of transforming customers needs into a product / service description
  • A process of constructing a product / a service
  • A process of replacing a product / a service
  • A process of manufacturing the product
  • A process of distributing the product
  • A process of servicing / maintaining the product
• Various processes, as the case may be
  • A process of replacing competitors' products with ours'.
  • A process of researching ways to reduce cost in manufacturing
  • A process of researching ways to reduce cost in research
  • A process of researching ways to reduce cost in marketing
  • A process of researching ways to reduce cost in distribution
  • A process of researching the goals that will satisfy contradicting expectations
• People related controls and dependences
  • A process of researching the most sensible mission
  • A process of researching the functions of people
  • A process of researching your control level over bankers, venders, shareholders, etc.
• A process / problem cluster which you may add to the list
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You need to understand that Systematic Innovation is a very powerful set of tools which you can apply to any of the processes mentioned above. While it is easier to calculate the cost difference between an old and a new manufacturing process, the principles for finding new solutions in other areas remain the same. Please check the list again. It is by no means complete, in fact, there is no end in building this application list.

Systematic Innovation is about the proper thinking processes a person or group applies to a problem cluster. Here are just a few of many aspects to give you an idea what we are working with:

The creative thinking process

• The morphological approach
  1. Intuitive and discursive thinking
  2. Creative intuition (replacing confusing intuition by using intuition appropriately)
  3. characteristics of intuitive thinking
  4. Stop wrongful thinking
  5. Approximating the solution
  6. Creative mentality
  7. Methodical guards
• Researching the methods
  1. General morphological methodology
  2. Using the tools
  3. Problems of application
  4. Decisions on methods
  5. Fundamental principles of appropriate methodology
  6. Analysis and selection of methods
  7. Operative methodology - pseudo methodology
  8. Thinking and methodical concepts
  9. Reason for morphological methodology
  10. Lectures on methodology
• Researching for thinking errors
  1. Undisciplined critisising
  2. Evaluating thinking error phenomena
  3. Thinking error dialectics
  4. Orderly critisising
  5. Primary and secondary critic
  6. Principles of critical thinking
  7. Prseudaristics, finding conceptual errors
  8. Illusion effects
  9. Methodical path for a critical process
  10. Methodical path for researching thinking errors
  11. A list of most often found thinking errors
  12. Managing problems of thinking errors methodically
• Creative systematics
  1. The idea of a systematic & orderly thinking process
  2. The operating diagram of a systematic & orderly thinking process
  3. The five basic steps
  4. The main decisions - Dynamics of creative thinking
  5. Subdivisions and steps
• Continuing research after a first workable solution
  1. End the search process? Or continue?
  2. Restructuring the research process
  3. Vision of a creative researcher
  4. Process of asking
  5. Thinking errors - an unlimited resource for research

The list above represents an overview on the subject of processes, using the mind as a research and production device. The principles of orderly processing apply to any research and development / design / construction case. All chapters: Mind - Communication - Organization - Processes - Methodology are of a similar depth.

Seminar levels are selective both in individual subjects and depth to accommodate the student appropriately. Anyone convinced of improving thinking processes may take comfort in knowing that one seminar will provide a great help and will not be the end of learning appropriate thinking.